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How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
nation10/18/2025

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system. Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residen... [15667 chars]