ICE's despicable immigration raids are making federal workers miserable

In yet more proof that the Trump administration can’t get on the same page, the Environmental Protection Agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are reportedly clashing over how and when to carry out immigration arrests, particularly at shared federal buildings.

ICE agents have been arresting immigrants at the EPA’s downtown Manhattan building, which also houses a Department of Justice immigration court. Immigrants are being picked up immediately after their hearings—either after a deportation order or a case dismissal—leaving little room for appeal. It’s an aggressive new tactic to deny immigrants due process, as part of President Donald Trump’s broader push to inflate deportation stats.

But the move has sparked chaos inside the building, with EPA officials having to warn employees not to interfere with ICE operations and to display badges to avoid being mistaken for targets. That hasn’t done much to ease nerves.

“Several members of our union have witnessed people being detained as they exit elevators, put in handcuffs, taken away somewhere. Generally, people have started to feel unsafe,” said Suzanne Englot, president of Local 3911 of the American Federation of Government Employees.

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