Every day, from first through sixth grade, I biked to school at Park Dale Lane Elementary in Encinitas. I know the surrounding streets like the back of my hand. They’re the ones where I set up my lemonade stands, played sports after school and first learned to drive.

I instantly recognized those streets in a video posted Wednesday morning of a man being abducted by ICE on a designated safe route to drop his daughter off at my former elementary school. In the video, ICE officers refused community members’ pleas to show a judicial warrant for the man’s detainment.

This isn’t the first time ICE has taken people from Encinitas. In July, they were spotted outside Home Depot, detaining at least two more men.

These cases in my hometown sit among the larger backdrop of the cruelty of the Trump

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