ICE protests.
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The immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that President Trump has been promising reportedly began on Saturday night in New York and a number of other jurisdictions.

"We are doing targeted enforcement actions against specific individuals who have had their day in immigration court and have been ordered to be removed by an immigration judge," Acting ICE Director Matt Albence told Fox News' Griff Jenkins."We are merely executing those lawfully issued judge's orders."

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.