Amnesty International Criticizes Trump’s Immigration Crackdown: "Abolishing ICE Is Inevitable"

Over 150 Testimonies Collected in Four Cities

“Human Rights Violations in the Course of Mass Detention and Deportation”

On September 24 (local time), international human rights organization Amnesty International called for the abolition of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Donald Trump administration, claiming that ICE committed widespread human rights violations during large-scale immigration raids.

Anti-ICE protest held in Austin, Texas. Photo by Reuters and Yonhap News.

According to AFP, Amnesty International released a report based on more than 150 testimonies collected between March and June in four U.S. cities where ICE was especially active.

In the report, Amnesty International asserted that the Trump administration has implemented "a system of mass detention and deportation based on racism and xenophobia," and has set the goal of detaining and deporting as many immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees as possible.

Nadya Dar, director of Amnesty International USA, pointed out, "When masked and armed federal agents assault people on the streets with impunity, it does not make communities safer but rather puts everyone at risk."

She went on to stress, "ICE is fundamentally broken beyond repair. If the U.S. government wants to establish an immigration enforcement system that complies with international human rights laws and standards, it must abolish ICE and start over from scratch."

This report was released after an incident on September 20 in Austin, Texas, where Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, an immigrant from Venezuela, was critically wounded by gunfire from an ICE agent. ICE had already faced criticism earlier in January for a separate shooting incident involving an immigrant in Minneapolis.

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