Many Americans are witnessing immigration arrests for the first time and reacting
June 21, 2025
With the Trump administration aggressively trying to increase the number of immigration arrests, raids are now being conducted at all hours and more Americans are witnessing people being hauled off. Previously such arrests were largely carried out late at night or in the pre-dawn hours by agents waiting outside people’s homes as they left for work or outside their work sites when they finished their day. Americans who rarely or never practiced civil disobedience now say they are intervening by recording the actions on their phones and staging impromptu protests. Arrests at immigration courts have also prompted emotional scenes as masked agents have turned up to detain people going to routine appointments and hearings.
