In the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations have become a daily spectacle — filmed arrests, dawn raids, families separated — reflecting the political hardening driven by Donald Trump and his camp.

But this escalation is not accidental. By turning the “foreigner” into an internal enemy, a migration police force has been transformed into a powerful political tool.

Who really is ICE? Why this escalation now? Who are the people being arrested: dangerous criminals or workers essential to the American economy? How does the state identify and track them down? Who profits financially from this system? And above all: what is this violence really for?