Caution: this article contains the author’s own perspective and does not necessarily reflect the views of The Bear Truth News or Winter Springs High School.
ICE, also known as U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is an organization which enforces immigration laws and conducts investigations into undocumented immigrants. Their job is to simply locate undocumented people living in America illegally, and to transport them back to where they originally immigrated from. But as of late, extreme measures have been taken in order to capture illegal immigrants.
In most common cases, these individuals do absolutely no harm to the communities they find themselves settling into after moving to America. These people are human, just like anybody else residing in the U.S, they’ve made a home for themselves, created beautiful families and communities, and they’ve become a part of the very foundation that makes up this country. They’re living their lives just like anyone else, but just because they, legally, “don’t belong here,” they are being savagely hunted down and even in worse cases, killed, just for the satisfaction of the law.
ICE troops have been making their way around the U.S for months now, and as they capture more people, the more violent and inhumane they’ve gotten. Just as 2026 has started, ICE has already been at fault for murdering 8 individuals, and in 2025, at least 32. This doesn’t even include the countless times that they’ve shot innocent protestors, or tackled them to the ground. Even indirectly, ICE is responsible for the deaths of many, including children. On February 8th, 2025, the innocent life of 11-year old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza tragically passed away after taking her own life because students in her class were threatening to call ICE on her family.
ICE is invoking unimaginable fear among not just children, but people around the world. Fear of not only families being torn apart, but of lives being lost. This organization is doing so much more harm than good for America, and they need to be stopped at any cost.
