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Opinion: Immigration enforcement: This isn’t crisis response. It’s crisis construction.

Placing the formidable power of ICE in the hands of political opportunists who neither fully comprehend nor respect its mission is volatile and dangerous.

(Philip Cheung | The New York Times) Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers try to clear a path for vehicles as people protested the detention of migrants at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles, on Friday, June 13, 2025.

(Philip Cheung | The New York Times) Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers try to clear a path for vehicles as people protested the detention of migrants at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles, on Friday, June 13, 2025.