Newsweek Discovers ICE Agents Exhibit Aggression. Again.
Newsweek details a recent incident where ICE agents were captured on video tearing clothes off a woman during an arrest, a headline suggesting this brutality is somehow surprising. The article, like much mainstream coverage, treats this as a one-off controversy, failing to provide the essential context that ICE's formation and operational history are replete with such incidents. (Newsweek URL:
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-rip-clothes-off-woman-during-arrest-video-shows-10837930 ) One might wonder if the media requires a new video for every documented instance of dehumanizing tactics by an agency established post-9/11 with a mandate to police borders by any means necessary. This isn't an anomaly; it's a feature of an institution whose budget ballooned from $3.3 billion in 2003 to
$8.6 billion in 2023, largely unchecked, allowing for persistent human rights abuses routinely chronicled by groups like the ACLU and Human Rights Watch. How many 'viral' videos does it take to acknowledge systemic cruelty?