Who Is ICE Really Protecting?

Agents say they are the victims. Hundreds are detained. Children show bruises. The funding deadline looms.

The sheep watched the Homeland Security hearing the way they watch a thunderstorm roll in across the pasture. Slowly. Darkly. With the uneasy sense that something worse is coming.

Todd Lyons of ICE, Rodney Scott of Customs and Border Protection, and Joseph Edlow of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sat before the House Committee on Homeland Secur…