Opinion: A Venezuelan immigrant’s experience with ICE in Memphis
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers guard an entrance of the Federal Building in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle/AP file)
Guest Columnist
Michael J. LaRosa
Michael J. LaRosa is an associate professor of history at Rhodes College.
Alfredo Caminata saw the United States as a safe place free from the authoritarianism and persecution he suffered in his home country. Until he was stopped by ICE agents.
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