Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #1019 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY, December 23, 2024: ‘ICE: Deportation Trap’ Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy: Migrants line up in the lobby of the Jacob Javits Federal building in NY near a wall bearing a portrait of President Trump and the Preamble to the US Constitution. Upstairs masked ICE agents and federal officers in balaclavas and sunglasses detain people after court hearings during this administration’s controversial immigration reform policies amid a mass deportation effort. They stand outside courtrooms with papers bearing photos of their ‘target’. After an arduous journey seeking asylum and the American dream, some react with anguish and tears, others walk quietly on their final steps to a new destiny. There is a vast political divide. Some participate in prayer walks and protests, decrying a lack of due process claiming troubling parallel’s to fascism and authoritarianism. ...