The first round of Wednesday afternoon immigration court hearings is about to start when Noemi Rios tracks down the ICE agents.

Four men — some in masks, some in baseball caps emblazoned with the American flag — lean nonchalantly against a wall in the gray hallway on the 10th floor of the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas. They do not wear badges or vests that identify them as law enforcement agents, but as Rios rounds the hallway’s corner, they shift as if on instinct so that their backs are turned to her.

Rios pulls a large notepad out of her bag and flips it open. On the page, “Ellos Son Migra” is written in bright blue marker. A blue arrow points toward the men whose eyes are trained on the doors of courtrooms.

The sign warns, “They Are ICE." The eyes of women carr

See Full Page