In 2002, Congress created a heavily armed militia, put it under the control of the President, and aimed it at some of our country’s most vulnerable residents. And at every turn—as refugees die in detention, children are ripped from their parents’ arms, people are dragged from their homes and cars, protesters are beaten and imprisoned—Congress responds by increasing ICE’s budget and paying for more immigration prisons, most of which are run by private companies making hundreds of millions of dollars off the imprisonment of immigrants. And Donald Trump now has co-opted ICE into his own private army, whose enemies are Trump’s enemies, from immigrant-rich communities to political dissidents. They are wearing masks and carrying weapons to kidnap people for exercising their First Amendment rights, to break up immigrant-rich communities, to silence protests, and to target Trump’s political opponents.