ICE’s Airport Crackdowns Are Designed to Spread Fear

Over the past few weeks, there’ve been reports of ICE ramping up arrests at airports around the country, picking up people boarding or exiting domestic flights in ways that not long ago would have been unheard of. This has prompted local journalists to ask whether their airports are safe to enter and to document individual arrests of people trying to travel. The agency has described these arrests as targeting people who have overstayed their visas, without clarification or even acknowledgement…