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In an interview with The Capital-Journal, Harper Seldin, staff attorney for the ACLU, said the posts were not relevant to the ongoing case. “I think the only relevance here is that the state is trying to use that to create pressure on anonymous Kansans who have been brave enough to show up in person and in court to tell their stories,” he said. “There’s no reason for this.”

But Micah Kubic, executive director of American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, detailed the optics of ICE operations across the country. “Kansans are seeing through these transparent attempts to turn neighbors against one another, and even if the U.S. Attorney finds them inconvenient, the facts are clear: masked, unidentified men are recklessly storming our streets, surrounding cars, separating parents from children, then disappearing them into ICE's creeping network of deplorable jails and prisons,” he said in a written statement.

During an ACLU protest in Riverside Park, City Council members Mike Hoheisel, Maggie Ballard and Joseph Shepard spoke out against partnerships known as 287(g) agreements. The agreements allow local law enforcement agencies to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to expand ICE efforts.

During an ACLU protest in Riverside Park, City Council members Mike Hoheisel, Maggie Ballard and Joseph Shepard spoke out against partnerships known as 287(g) agreements. The agreements allow local law enforcement agencies to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to expand ICE efforts.

“I think this is a textbook example of what is supposed to happen,” Kansas ACLU Executive Director Micah Kubic told KCUR. “When communities come out to say, ‘This is not what we want our city, our town, our state, our country to look like,’ folks in power respond to that.”

Multiple speakers discussed the arrests made in southwest Kansas at the rally that was hosted by the ACLU of Kansas. Despite what officials say, organizers say ICE agents arrested multiple United States citizens in those raids and that it is not only criminals being arrested as a result. They say many Hispanic communities are living in fear.

During an ACLU protest in Riverside Park, City Council members Mike Hoheisel, Maggie Ballard and Joseph Shepard spoke out against partnerships known as 287(g) agreements. The agreements allow local law enforcement agencies to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to expand ICE efforts.

In a lawsuit backed by the ACLU of Kansas, plaintiffs seek to block a sweeping law that invalidated driver’s licenses bearing gender markers that differ from a person’s sex assigned at birth and restricts restroom use in government buildings. As plaintiffs told The Washington Post, the ID requirement has exposed them to scrutiny in ordinary interactions, even after they complied with the law.

A former maximum-security prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, is now a critical hub in the Trump administration’s immigration detention machine, transforming in just a few months from a facility shuttered for its inhospitable conditions to a privately run jail holding hundreds of immigrants.