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Published January 28th, 2026, 08:13 pm

In the wake of ICE killings in Minneapolis, questions about immigration enforcement have moved into the national spotlight. Legal scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández joined The Metro's Robyn Vincent to walk us through how immigration enforcement was built and how it came to resemble criminal policing.

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How immigration became a crime

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