Why Isn’t Anyone Stopping ICE?: Noah Feldman

“Why is no one doing anything about ICE?” is the question I’m most frequently asked when people find out I’m a constitutional law professor.

They’re not wrong to ask. In the 10 months of President Donald Trump’s administration running roughshod over the Constitution and federal law, nothing has been more upsetting to our collective understanding of how America works than masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers roaming the streets and grabbing people on suspicion that they are undocumented. Operating without warrants or identification and prepared to arrest bystanders whom they deem to be interfering, ICE personnel have brought into reality a scenario ...