But ICE’s malign presence in our community has had a less visible, but no less oppressive, side as well: courthouse arrests. In the worst cases, we bear silent witness to the routinized violence of an immigration system that tears apart families and the more acute violence of courthouse arrests by plainclothes ICE agents. Over the course of the summer, I have seen firsthand how immigration courthouse arrests are the culmination of a bewildering system whose machinations of exclusion and alienation begin long before an immigrant is forcibly taken away in an unmarked white van. You don’t have a lawyer because the government does not have an obligation to provide you one in immigration court. This summer of raids and deportations has opened the eyes of many to the brutality of our country’s immigration enforcement system.