Why They Mask
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A few days after President Donald Trump took office, I got an invitation from ICE officials to observe the administration’s new “surge operations” in New York City. They told me to show up at 4 a.m. at the downtown federal building where the agency has its holding cells. Officers in body armor huddled in the basement parking garage, then headed to the Bronx in a caravan of unmarked cars. The trip wasn’t particularly…
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