You may have seen pictures in recent months of ICE agents making immigration arrests in public spaces.

Some wearing street clothes using unmarked cars and covering their faces with masks.

But there's a related headline. A handful of arrests of people posing as ICE officers,

in some cases carrying out assaults and robberies and even fake traffic stops.

To talk about ICE and its impostors, I'm joined by Jose Olivearez, a freelance investigative

journalist who's been covering this trend for the Guardian newspaper.

Jose, you found or were able to document around half a dozen of these cases.

That may be a pattern, but it's not a huge

number. Why do you still think this is significant to watch? It's not necessarily a new

trend, right? We've seen examples in the past of people pretending to be police officers

and impersonating people. But I think the recent escalation by immigration officials throughout the country under the Trump

administration has opened this door for criminals to take advantage and to prey on vulnerable

immigrant communities that are afraid of these immigration enforcement actions, right?

And I think experts are very worried that this rising trend of immigration officers wearing masks

to conduct these arrests ends up blurring the line between who is actually an officer and

who is a civilian who might be, you know, taking advantage and capitalizing on this trend.

In these known cases, what about the why?

Are these ever vigilantes trying to go after

people they think they should? Or are these criminals, as you say? I think we've seen certain

rumblings of vigilante groups going after people who are undocumented. But a lot of the cases that we've

seen within the past year, within the past few months under the Trump administration, have been examples of people

pretending to be ICE officers, someone in North Carolina, for example, sexually assaulting someone

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