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What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?

What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?

Update: 2025-08-13
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The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda has shifted from border enforcement to an unprecedented campaign of interior deportations. They talk about the expansion of detention through military bases and state-run facilities, the changes to long-standing arrest protocols, and the strategic transfers designed to separate detainees from their families and lawyers. Plus, they examine how these tactics have eroded due-process protections, why Democrats have struggled to mount an effective response, and whether public outrage could slow the Administration’s most aggressive deportation measures.

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What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?

What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?

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