‘Extraordinary climate of fear’: DC residents testify on ICE arrests, ask mayor for answers

Federal agents are arresting people based on how they look, separating parents from their children and pulling food delivery workers off streets – “and our government isn’t doing much about it.”

That’s what one of dozens of D.C. residents said in testimony at a D.C. Council hearing on Wednesday about concerns about the federal surge in the District and immigration enforcement.

News4 video showed the scene in city hall as residents lined up to testify about their experiences and fears related to immigration enforcement and what many said they see as cooperation between Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)…

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