To many progressives, ICE — Immigration and Customs Enforcement — is synonymous with President Donald Trump’s brutal and cruel immigration regime.

But to hardliners in the Trump administration bent on carrying out mass deportation, ICE has actually been something of a disappointment.

So they’re increasingly turning to another agency that they view as willing to go faster and harder: the Border Patrol.

Border Patrol agents have already played a major role in the administration’s highly visible and controversial operations in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago this summer and fall, patrolling residential areas in militarized fashion, and using tactics like tear gas. “A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents,” rather than ICE agents, Fox News reporter Bill Me

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