An 18-year-old boy in California was taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just days before starting his senior year of high school. He was simply out walking his dog when they detained him. ICE never told his parents where he was. For a whole week, they had no idea what happened to their son. During that time, he was moved from one facility to another and eventually sent to Arizona, where he is now waiting to find out what will happen to him.
This kind of story is happening all over the country. Federal immigration agents are arresting people at churches, schools, workplaces, and even courthouses. Most of these people’s only “crime” is coming to or staying in the U.S. without proper documents. Otherwise, they are workers, parents, neighbors, and part of their communities.
Trump once promised to remove “the worst of the worst” — violent criminals who threaten public safety. But cases like this show that’s not what’s happening. Instead of targeting dangerous people, ICE often goes after anyone they can, using crime as an excuse. The boy in this story was not a violent offender. Yet he was taken, his family was left in fear, and his community was shaken.
This isn’t really about crime. It’s about power and control. Trump uses the idea of “crime” to justify harsh actions against immigrants, especially people of color. As long as people with brown or Black skin live in America, he can claim there’s a “crime wave” and say extreme actions — even sending in troops — are necessary to “keep the country safe.” But are we really safer because of this?
In Connecticut, ICE recently ran a raid called “Operation Broken Trust,” arresting around 65 people. The state has laws that limit how much local police can help federal immigration agents. These laws don’t stop ICE from doing its job — they only require federal agents to work on their own. But ICE claimed these laws protect “criminal alien offenders.” They said their actions made the streets safer. Yet most of the people they arrested had already been dealt with by the state for any crimes they committed. In other words, justice had already been served.
Taking them again doesn’t make communities safer. It sends a different message: that their real “crime” is not what they did, but who they are — immigrants, often brown or Black, living in the U.S.
Trump benefits from appearing to act in the name of law and order. But when you look closely, it’s not about keeping people safe. It’s about creating fear, undermining laws, and expanding his own power. Detaining a teenager, hiding it from his parents, and shipping him across state lines would be called kidnapping if anyone else did it. Yet under this system, it’s being done openly.
Dictators often justify their actions by saying they are protecting the nation. Trump himself has said, “I’m not a dictator,” while at the same time suggesting he may use troops in American cities to deal with supposed crime waves. The danger is that if we accept his version of events, he will keep pushing further — bending laws, using fear, and committing greater abuses to gain control.
There is a real crisis, but it’s not caused by an 18-year-old walking his dog. It’s caused by a government that treats entire communities as criminals because of who they are, not what they have done.
So sorry he’s a minor in the public school but the facts are he is illegal using tax payers money and if poor getting free food from the school again taxpayers money deport him asap