ICE’s Expanding Authority Under Trump
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What is the current state of ICE's authority under the Trump administration?
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Hey, What's News listeners. It's Sunday, January 25th. I'm Alex Osola for The Wall Street Journal. This is What's News Sunday, the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world.
How has ICE's approach to immigration enforcement changed recently?
On today's show, the Trump administration's immigration tactics have been on display in Minneapolis. Residents have been pushing back and it's turned the city into a tinderbox. Now, as immigration officers deploy elsewhere in the country, we're honing in on ICE to understand the changing landscape of what agents are allowed to do and potential challenges to that authority. Earlier this month, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency sent more than 2,000 people to Minneapolis. According to the Department of Homeland Security, immigration agents have arrested 3,000 people with alleged criminal histories who they say were in the U.S. illegally since mid-December, calling the effort, quote, a huge victory for public safety.
However, ICE's increased presence and the shooting of Rene Good by an ICE officer earlier this month have sparked protests in the city and across the country, adding to clashes between locals and immigration agents that have swept through U.S. cities over the past year. So it had me wondering, what is ICE actually supposed to do? And how has that changed during President Trump's second term?
What are the legal implications of ICE entering homes without a warrant?
I discuss these and more questions with Michelle Hackman, who covers immigration policy for The Journal. Michelle, it feels like ICE has been around for a long time, but actually the modern iteration of the agency was only created in the early 2000s. How did it come to be and what was its founding mandate?
So ICE was founded in 2003. It existed in another form before then, but after 9-11, the government really revamped its sort of law enforcement and particularly its law enforcement around foreigners and allowing foreigners into the country. And separated out this agency to really step up deportations and also investigating foreigners who were using the immigration process to commit crimes.
And how does ICE differ from other border security, for example?
ICE's mandate is really specifically to go find people in the country illegally, arrest them, and get them out of the country. So it's interesting because they use a lot of the same law enforcement tactics as most other law enforcement agencies, but their mandate is civil. It's not criminal.
What training do ICE agents receive and how is it evolving?
If you're here in the country illegally, that technically is not a crime. It's actually like a little bit closer, technically speaking, to getting a parking ticket. It's a civil violation of The consequence of it is deportation. But in the government's sort of really sterile legal parlance, deportation is not supposed to be like a criminal punishment.
Yeah, I'm glad you brought up the tactics because that's something that really has come into focus a lot since President Trump started his second term. But I'm curious what kind of training ICE agents receive.
So the training is evolving as we speak. Traditionally, an ICE officer is supposed to get something like 16 weeks of training, and that includes everything from learning the basics of immigration law, physical training, law enforcement training, how to use a gun, for example, and also learning to speak Spanish.
What is reasonable suspicion and how does it affect ICE operations?
And this administration, because they're trying to bring on so many new ICE agents, they're
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the current state of ICE's authority under the Trump administration?
0:00–0:52
2
How has ICE's approach to immigration enforcement changed recently?
0:52–1:55
3
What are the legal implications of ICE entering homes without a warrant?
1:55–3:06
4
What training do ICE agents receive and how is it evolving?
3:06–3:59
5
What is reasonable suspicion and how does it affect ICE operations?
3:59–5:07
6
What happens to individuals detained by ICE during enforcement actions?
5:07–5:55
7
How are asylum seekers treated under ICE's current policies?
5:55–6:46
8
What legal challenges are being raised against ICE's expanded powers?
6:46–13:05