On February 9, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across the country arrested more than six hundred immigrants in a series of nationally coordinated actions. In Los Angeles alone, they detained over a hundred people, prompting fierce local resistance and sparking concerns that President Trump was delivering on his campaign promise to remove all eleven million undocumented immigrants from the country.

The previous month, Trump issued a pair of executive orders calling for increased cooperation between local police and federal immigration enforcement, and penalties for those “sanctuary” jurisdictions that limit such cooperation. He designated undocumented immigrants charged with any criminal offense a priority for removal; ordered the creation of a new office called the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement; mandated the construction of new detention facilities and border walls; and called for the hiring of thousands of additional Border Patrol and ICE agents.

With Trump’s ascendance, the limited concessions wrested from the Obama administration seem to have disappeared under a tide of noxious reaction.