ICE is a paramilitary force

Erica De Bruin writing for The Conversation:

The United States is nearly alone among established democracies in creating a new paramilitary police force in recent decades. Indeed, the creation of ICE in the U.S. following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is one of just four instances I’ve found since 1960 where a democratic country created a new paramilitary police force, the others being Honduras, Brazil and Nigeria.

De Bruin is director of the Policing Lab at the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College.