The purpose of the federal mass deportation campaign—targeting immigrants of color for deportation, rather than immigrants from “places like Norway” whom the President deems more  desirable—is an intolerable affront to U.S. constitutional and democratic norms and values;  

The administration claims that it is targeting “terrorists”, “spies”, and “violent criminals”, but the  evidence shows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been detaining immigrants  with no criminal record at staggering rates (in 2025, the total number of ICE detentions rose by  75% while the number of ICE detainees with no criminal record increased by 2,450%); there has  been an especially sharp increase in detention of noncriminal Latinos; 

ICE encourages its agents to arrest people with no proven criminal connections when they show  up for routine immigration appointments and in wholesale sweeps and “at large” arrests at farms,  construction sites, factories and other businesses; official ICE policy allows agents to enter  people’s homes, and to arrest and imprison them without a judicial warrant or other semblance of  probable cause or due process; the administration persistently ignores and violates federal court orders meant to remedy these and other legal and constitutional violations; 

The federal deportation effort is being executed by masked and heavily armed ICE agents,  facilitated by 35,000 Army, Navy, Marine, and National Guard troops sent by the President in an  unprecedented domestic military deployment; these forces are descending on peaceful U.S. cities  against the wishes of state and local officials using dangerous and deadly weapons, not only  against local immigrants, but also against peaceful citizen protesters and observers; 

This month, ICE sent 2000 federal agents to Minneapolis to conduct massive sweeps that the  Governor described as “a war that’s being waged against Minnesota”; ICE agents were captured  on videotape repeatedly shooting and killing local protest observers Renee Good and Alex Pretti without provocation; in each instance, administration officials rushed to falsely characterize the  victims as criminal and the killings as justified; these are just two of the 38 people who have died in ICE custody since the President’s inauguration, including 6 in the past four weeks; 

The President has ordered “maximum” detention to coerce immigrant detainees to “consent” to  deportation orders; the resulting official “no release” and no bail policy means that immigrants  who choose to challenge the legality of their detention must endure indefinite incarceration in  harsh, remote detention centers as they await the assignment of a trial date; 

The President has gutted the immigration court system ensuring that the current wait for an  immigration court date (currently up to five years) will stretch even longer; despite an immigration court backlog of over 3 million cases and the skyrocketing ICE detention rates, the President has  fired 98 immigration judges (nearly 15% of the federal immigration bench), has eliminated roughly half of the Board of Immigration Appeals, has removed Department of Justice officials responsible  for overseeing immigration courts, and has eliminating federal funding for immigrant legal services;  

Last summer, Congress increased funding for immigration enforcement by $107 billion dollars,  including $45 billion for new detention facilities which have already doubled in number; ICE has undertaken an “unprecedented nationwide recruitment campaign” that in just four months has  expanded the ICE workforce by 120%; the administration claims already to have deported or driven out as many as 3 million immigrants and, tragically, the President assures us he is just  getting started.