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Opinion: ‘The system is meant to break you’: What ICE is doing to people here legally

Something new is happening in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.

Jemmy Jimenez Rosa embraces her daughter in her home, Nov. 16, 2025. Immigration and Border Patrol officers have long held extremely broad discretionary powers to welcome or reject noncitizens arriving in the United States. And this is far from the first wave of xenophobia to hit America. But something different is happening now in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country. (Luis Manuel Diaz/The New York Times)

Jemmy Jimenez Rosa embraces her daughter in her home, Nov. 16, 2025. Immigration and Border Patrol officers have long held extremely broad discretionary powers to welcome or reject noncitizens arriving in the United States. And this is far from the first wave of xenophobia to hit America. But something different is happening now in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country. (Luis Manuel Diaz/The New York Times)

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By Sarah Wildman | The New York Times