Trump’s ‘secret police’: Masked agents’ sweeping immigration raids raise concern It’s so striking, in scene after scene, to see regular people asking masked agents “Who are you?” and “What are you doing?”

June 6, 2025, 4:43 PM EDT

By Chris Hayes

This is an adapted excerpt from the June 5 episode of “All In with Chris Hayes.”

The term “secret police” invokes a kind of haunting specter. When we see representations of it in movies or history, we immediately identify it with a certain kind of regime: One that tramples people’s liberty with no accountability. We associate it with authoritarian governments and dictatorships like the former Soviet Union, where people, usually armed, could wield the authority of the state but were, themselves, totally unaccountable in the same way.

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