At the very beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, this magazine warned that his mass deportation plan wouldn’t just affect immigrants, but that it was a direct threat to the safety and civil liberties of all Americans. As cases piled up in the months that followed of US citizens being arrested, questioned, detained, and even deported from the country, we warned again that the operation was menacing law-abiding Americans and trampling their constitutional rights.

It’s now been nearly nine months, and it could not be clearer that the administration’s aggressive and indiscriminate approach to deportations, coupled with the impunity granted to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents to carry it out, is a profound danger to every US citizen.

The most recent incident took place last week in Chicago, where federal agents rappelled (needlessly) from helicopters into a residential building in the city’s lower-income South Shore neighborhood, indiscriminately broke down apartment doors, threw flash-bang grenades, and zip-tied and dragged out residents while ransacking their property. That includes several US citizens, children among them, who were detained for hours without access to a lawyer.