From Los Angeles to Chicago and now Charlotte, North Carolina, federal law enforcement agents are arresting immigrants, both legal residents and undocumented, in raids unfolding in the public eye.

Video circulating online show agents pinning protesters to the ground, smashing the windows of cars, and dragging suspected undocumented immigrants away from their families.

For more on these escalating tactics, we're joined by Michelle Hackman,

immigration reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Thank you so much for joining us.

So what are these tactics that law enforcement are using now in these immigration operations,

and how do they differ from what they've done in the past?

Yeah, so I would say there are two really big differences.

One is that at the start of the Trump administration,

the decision they made, you know, in the past,

when ICE would do an arrest, they were interested in doing numbers,

and the easiest way to make an arrest is to catch someone basically

as they're coming out of jail.

Well, this administration made a calculated decision that they believe that a lot of immigrants are out there in the country.

They call them fugitives. And so they're doing a lot more street arrests, which means they're tracking people down where they live,

where they're dropping their kids off at school.

And that's leading to a lot of confrontations that we just used to not see before.

And those confrontations are happening not just with the people they're targeting, but certainly

the surrounding crowds passers by who become onlookers. How is that working out?

Yeah, so we've seen these huge deployments of border patrol agents, you know, typically at the border

and not used to dealing with crowds and protesters.

And suddenly they're deployed in these big cities like Chicago, I'm sure viewers have seen,

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