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ICE TV Is Everywhere
Social media is flooded with videos of immigration raids. They tell a very different story depending on where you’re looking.
Earlier this month, as anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles began to swell in size and fury, the Department of Homeland Security posted a video of an immigration raid in El Monte, California. They record the same events as those featured in the ICE ones, and they too have become so common that when scrolling through a feed, even a thumbnail is enough to know what you’re looking at, regardless of whether it’s a video of an unnamed immigrant or of Brad Lander — a fluorescent-lit, courtroom hallway, a parking lot full of law enforcement vehicles. In another video from the same Omaha Glen Valley raid, an ICE agent tells the crowd “you understand we have a signed warrant authorizing us to be here.” “Here’s my bag of fucks,” says a white man seated at the nearest table.
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