On February 8th, ICE carried out a raid against people exiting a hypothermia shelter at a church in Alexandria, VA. They waited until a group of men who appeared to be mestizo broke off from the group and then pounced. They released one and took the others. The detained men were loaded into a van already full of hispanic men, according to witnesses, and were taken away.

Questions from a local news source yielded a different story than what was described by witnesses.

  The official could not confirm other aspects of the men’s story, and insisted ICE does not detain people in vans, as the men described.

 “ICE conducts targeted immigration enforcement in compliance with federal law and agency policy,” the statement continues, “ICE does not conduct sweeps or raids that target aliens indiscriminately.”

 The witness accounts were recorded in further news sources. What's clear from ICE's chilling response to this, as with practically any body now of a federal government controlled by Donald Trump, is that there will not be accurate information divulged to the public regarding their actions. Given the population being targeted, homeless immigrants, it will be very difficult for the detained men to receive any kind of assistance. ICE detention centers are growing, with the private prison industry earning huge profits because of it.