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Civics 101

NHPR

History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

ICE, or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is one of the nation's youngest law enforcement agencies. It's also become one of the most controversial. But what does ICE actually do? Dara Lind, a senior reporter for Vox, walks us through how ICE got its start, some of its responsibilities today, and what we can expect from the agency moving forward. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:04.4	Civics 101.
0:08.3	Ten years ago today, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rated a textile plant
0:13.6	a new bedfurt massachusetts.
0:15.3	Nick, how much do you know about ICE?
0:17.5	They detained hundreds of workers.
0:19.0	My knowledge of ICE is in the wake of the attacks of September 11th, and it felt like
0:23.1	immigration laws and treatment of the undocumented in the US changed drastically.
0:29.2	But I don't know what their practices are, and I don't know what their legal boundaries
0:33.9	are.
0:34.9	Right.
0:35.9	I feel like I often hear about controversy around ICE Maria Louise and her family were
0:41.9	separated back in 2005.
0:44.3	I don't know what they're allowed to do, what they're not allowed to do, why that institution
0:48.2	was set up exactly as it is.
0:50.1	And Jimmy Gutierrez, you know him, he's a producer on our show.
0:54.3	He reached out to this reporter at Vox, Darland.
0:58.7	Now Daria has actually been reporting on immigration for, I think, most of her career.
1:05.0	So she's really the person to get in touch with if you want to understand what ICE is,
1:11.7	why it's doing what it's doing, and what it is doing in this country.
1:16.1	So ICE as an agency dates back to about 2003.
1:21.0	It was created as part of the Department of Homeland Security after 9-11.
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