Raiding schools, taking the wrong people, causing fear and trapping people across the border. The people responsible are the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE.

Though ICE raids have been around since approximately 2003, high numbers of raids began the first 50 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. ICE began raiding and deporting what they call “illegals,” people who don’t have legal documents to live in the United States, claiming they are criminals that have crossed the border. According to dhs.gov, “ICE has made 32,809 enforcement arrests” after Trump’s inauguration. The website names these people “illegal aliens” and claims that 14,111 were convicted criminals, 9,980 had pending criminal charges, 1,155 were criminal gang members, and 39 were suspected terrorists. Reasons for the remaining arrests were not specified.

Most noticeably in the last month, ICE has been known to deport hefty amounts of students, regardless if they have legal documents or not. The dangers ICE is bringing are raised fear and eroded trust between citizens and their government. One of the few colleges that was raided is the University of Minnesota (U of M). Doğukan Günaydın, a student at U of M, was wrongly detained by two federal officers at  “the street outside his St. Paul home…on his way to class,” according to cnn.com.

There have also been cases where ICE deported legal citizens into detention centers in the United States. Some of these facilities are in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, according to ice.gov. These spaces are used to hold deported individuals instead of deporting them straight across the border into El Salvador prisons.

Though it doesn’t happen often, once is too many times. What Trump thought was a good thing for the country turned into fear manifesting in schools, malls, and any public places full of innocent citizens who are afraid of being arrested and deported, with no way proving their innocence, for crimes they did not commit.