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April 2, 2026 - WIRED. From the description:

Masked federal agents are conducting immigration enforcement operations across American cities. Until now, no one knew who they were behind the mask. Using body camera footage WIRED spent months cross-referencing court records and reports to identify Border Patrol and ICE agents involved in incidents that left American citizens with cracked ribs and no answers. This is Incognito Mode.

Here’s the accompanying article: Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown | WIRED - Free archive: https://archive.ph/YJmDK

More than 13,000 immigrants who were living legally in the U.S., waiting for rulings on asylum claims, suddenly faced so-called third-country deportation orders, destined for countries where most had no ties.

Yet few have been deported, even as the White House pushes for ever more immigrant expulsions. Thanks to unexplained changes in U.S. policy, many are now mired in immigration limbo, unable to argue their asylum claims in court and unsure if they’ll be shackled and put on a deportation flight to a country they’ve never seen.

Some are in detention, though it’s unclear how many. All have lost permission to work legally, a right most had while pursuing their asylum claims, compounding the worry and dread that has rippled through immigrant communities.

And that may be the point.

“This administration’s goal is to instill fear into people. That’s the primary thing,” said Cassandra Charles, a senior staff attorney with the National Immigration Law Center, which has been fighting the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. The fear of being deported to an unknown country could, advocates believe, drive migrants to abandon their immigration cases and decide to return to their home countries.