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Bernice Yeung

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Field Office Director Jorge Field (L), 53, arrests an Iranian immigrant in San Clemente, California.

ICE agents are increasingly playing the roles of both police and judge

Conflict

Under President Donald Trump, immigration arrests have jumped by nearly 35 percent. They’re happening at courthouses, restaurants and in front of people’s homes. And these days, anyone who isn’t authorized to be in the country — from gang members to church pastors — is fair game.

Two young girls watch television in a holding area where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children were being processed and held at the US Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona, June 18, 2014.

A judge said these kids get a green card. ICE says they get deported.

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Alone and abused. That’s the reality for many of America’s night janitors.

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