Why Is the US Deporting So Many People? The Rise of Immigration Enforcement Explained

How the American immigration police got so powerful.
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ICE, a government agency created after the 9/11 attacks, seems to have free rein under the Trump administration. How did we get here? How did ICE become so important, and so powerful?

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- Daniel
- Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA School of Law
- Kathleen Bush-Joseph, Migration Policy Institute
- Heidi Altman, National Immigration Law Center
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, American Immigration Council
- Shannon Shepherd, Immigration Attorneys, LLP
- Jennifer Van Hook, Pennsylvania State University

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-- VIDEO CHAPTERS --
0:00 Intro
8:57 America before ICE
17:09 Homeland Security
23:14 Collateral Enforcement
29:38 National Emergency
36:48 ICE Unleashed

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