In Reply to: Another redistricting win (for now) in Alabama posted by mh on May 26, 2026 at 12:09:03
Families across America are being terrorized by criminals posing as immigration enforcement agents. These incidents have skyrocketed in the last year, fueled by President Donald Trump’s decision to target vulnerable communities as part of his racist anti-immigrant agenda.
Noticias Telemundo investigated crime reports where perpetrators pretended to be from immigration enforcement agencies like ICE and found that there were 31 such cases in 2025. That’s up from an average of 5.4 incidents per year in the previous decade, an increase of over 484%.
At least two of the incidents involved women being raped by men posing as immigration enforcement. In one instance a Venezuelan immigrant in North Carolina was assaulted at her workplace by a fake agent. In a New York case, a Dominican woman was dragged into a basement and raped and beaten by a fake immigration agent.
Many of the targets of these crimes, which also include offenses like robbery and assault, are in immigrant communities that have been singled out by Trump and other Republicans. Some of these crimes go unreported because these people are fearful of being detained and deported due to their current immigration status.
Naureen Shah, director of government affairs at ACLU, told NBC, “We’ve never in this country experienced masked agents on this kind of scale. And so, we’ve never experienced this problem before of people being able to credibly impersonate federal law enforcement agents.”