ICE stands for
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security.
ICE has become a symbol of the
United States' aggressive
immigration policies. The agency is primarily tasked with the location, detention, and deportation of undocumented immigrants who have already successfully crossed the border and are living in the US.
ICE operates detention centers throughout the
United States that detain immigrants who are apprehended. About 34,000 people are held in
immigration detention on any given day, in over 500 detention centers, jails, and
prisons nationwide. The agency has been subject of criticism and several controversies, including allegations
… Read more of sexual abuse, torture, and wrongful arrest of US citizens. In 2020, multiple
human rights groups joined a whistleblower to accuse a private-owned U.S.
immigration detention center in Georgia of forcibly sterilizing women. The reports claimed a doctor conducted unauthorized medical procedures on women detained by
ICE.
Anticolonialism is a broad term used to describe the various
resistance movements directed against colonial and imperial powers.