ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north

Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.

By: Kelsey Norman, Rice University and Nicholas R. Micinski, American University, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: January 23, 2026

Words: 1,276

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

By Kelsey Norman, Rice University and Nicholas R. Micinski, American University

Over the past year, images of masked, heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting men, women and children – outside of courts, at schools and homes – have become common across the United States.

The video of an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Nicole Good – a U.S. citizen – in Minnesota on Jan. 7, 2026, is one example …

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