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Exclusive look inside ICE: How the agency operates in Trump's America

Across the country, ICE officers accustomed to operating below the radar have been thrust into the spotlight by Trump's orders to conduct the largest mass deportation in history.


The article examines ICE operations in Kansas City amid the Trump administration’s aggressive mass‑deportation drive, detailing expanded staffing, tougher detention policies, high‑profile raids, and the escalating tension between agents, immigrant communities, and local officials.

 KANSAS CITY, Missouri ‒ Inside an ICE headquarters in a suburban office park hangs a printed text-message that immigration officers feel is aimed at them: "Get a gun and shoot them in the streets." 

It's tacked on a cubicle wall that dozens of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pass by daily. The screenshot message also declares, "This is a war."

In response, an ICE agent wrote on the printout in all caps: "BE VIGILANT!!" 

For ICE Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer Keone Feliciano, the note is an unavoidable reminder of the danger he and his colleagues face amidst rapidly increasing anger over the Trump administration's aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.

Across the 

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