We are now watching where they go next.
Friday night in Frederick, Maryland, federal immigration agents drove onto a sidewalk where community observers were standing and chanting. City Council President César Díaz says people had to move or risk getting run over. He says Council Vice President Katie Nash was nearly struck, and that he himself stepped back to avoid being hit.
ICE agents had been in the Taskers Chance subdivision for about forty hours, beginning around 6:00 a.m. Thursday. Nash said many residents were not leaving their homes.
Friday night, Nash called Frederick police and asked them to protect the observers. Some linked arms, chanting “We shall not be moved.” Nash says agents pulled out batons and hit people forming a human barrier. Videos reviewed by The Baltimore Banner show agents dragging protesters away.
Agents entered a house and left having made no arrests.
ICE told the Frederick News-Post it had been seeking a man it described as a “criminal illegal alien” who fled a vehicle stop Thursday morning. The agency did not publicly identify him.
Frederick may be part of an unfolding national pattern.
Weeks earlier, ICE completed “Operation Safe Community — Washington, D.C.”: 1,328 arrests across Maryland and Virginia in fourteen days. DHS said it “closely follows” “Operation Safe Community — Atlanta,” which resulted in 1,226 arrests across Georgia.
Same name, new region.
When Operation Metro Surge ended in Minnesota in February, White House border czar Tom Homan said officers being drawn down would either return to their duty stations or be assigned elsewhere.
We are now watching where they go next.
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