With the expansion of ICE, Americans have “reason to be alarmed,” says Lucan Way. Joyce Vance warns that “Congress needs to … wake up to the fact that it needs to play its role in setting institutional boundaries and imposing limits on a runaway executive branch, before it's too late.”
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'Blatantly unconstitutional’: democracy professor on ICE tactics
ICE targeting students who have criticized the Trump administration is “blatantly unconstitutional,” warns professor of democracy Lucan Ahmad Way. “You can't simply racially profile or profile people based on their national origin and start pulling them off the streets,” says Joyce Vance. “That, by definition, is a police state.” With an explosion of new funding for ICE, as part of the GOP’s megabill, there’s yet more reason to be alarmed. With a rapid expansion of ICE, the danger, says Vance, “is that the people in charge are no longer the career officials with training who understand loyalty to the Constitution. These are quite literally people who understand loyalty to Donald Trump.”
