Federal law enforcement carrying out immigration operations in cities across the United States face nationwide pushback from activists determined to “out” them while in public.

Since employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency, began ramping up arrests of primarily criminal illegal immigrants in early 2025, the Trump administration has sent in thousands more federal agents and officers from across the departments of Homeland Security and Justice to supplement ICE.

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