PREVIEW: The Friday edition. - Your questions about ICE, answered.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Over the last couple of months, our inbox has been inundated with questions about the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Readers from across the political spectrum are trying to separate fact from fiction: Can ICE actually arrest U.S. citizens? What are my rights when a Border Patrol officer talks to me? How are all of these agents being trained amid a massive hiring push by the Trump administration?
Online and in the opinion sections of news outlets, misinformation has been rampant. In our own coverage, we’ve tried to address some of these questions, but the answers are often legally nuanced and impossible to sum up in a single sentence, a post on X, or a thirty-second TikTok video.
Today, though, we’re going to address them in detail.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. |
| 0:29.2 | And on today's episode, we're answering your questions about ICE. |
| 0:34.2 | More specifically, your questions about the Department of Homeland Security, |
| 0:38.4 | immigration and customs enforcement, and customs and border protection. Readers from across |
| 0:44.0 | the political spectrum are trying to separate facts from fiction right now. Can ICE actually |
| 0:49.5 | arrest U.S. citizens? What are my rights if a Border Patrol officer talks to me? How are all of these new |
| 0:55.8 | agents being trained amid a massive hiring pushed by the Trump administration? Online and in the |
| 1:01.4 | opinion sections of news outlets, misinformation has been rampant. In our own coverage, we've tried to |
| 1:07.2 | address some of these questions, but the answers are often legally nuanced and |
| 1:11.1 | impossible to sum up in a single sentence, a post on X or a 30-second TikTok video. |
| 1:17.0 | Today, though, we're going to address them in detail. In order to get to the bottom of these |
| 1:22.3 | questions, we spoke with a wide array of experts. Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge who now works at the Center |
| 1:29.0 | for Immigration Studies. Caesar Garcia-Hernandez, the Gregory Williams Chair and Civil Rights and |
| 1:34.8 | Civil Liberties at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, attorney Sarah Isker, who is also |
| 1:40.9 | the co-host of advisory opinions and the legal analysts at the dispatch, and Joshua |
| 1:46.3 | Erdenheimer, who spent years overseeing training policies at DHS. We've compiled the most |
| 1:52.7 | frequently asked questions we've received from readers, and in a moment, we're going to go through |
| 1:56.7 | them one by one and answer them. Today, I'm going to be joined on the podcast by Will Keeback |
| 2:01.8 | and Lindsay Canuth, two of our editors, who are going to help me respond to some of these questions. |
| 2:13.9 | All right, first up is who are DHS agents. This is a broad category of questions we've been getting. |
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