It's illegal and immoral, and the detention of a citizen proves that in black and white. That's why it's relevant.

I think we should have open borders. That said, not everyone does. Many more people have a problem with citizens being detained because the supposed focus of these raids is people in the country illegally (and supposedly people who are criminals).

Talking about how they're detaining citizens highlights that the actions are indiscriminate, and that really they want to target any brown people. It shows they don't care about the law. It's also telling people in a protected class, "hey, they can come for you too."

I don't need anymore evidence of that, but some people do. And when we stop calling it out it becomes de facto acceptable.

There's plenty of other headlines about illegal detaining that exclude the citizen label. This is just to highlight the fact that arrests are escalating.

No, it does not. Their current practices are absolutely unlawful and immoral but their agency exists to detain immigrants, so detaining citizens is even worse.

I don't disagree with your viewpoint, but I'm not in support of what ICE is doing at all. There are MILLIONS of people in this country who steadfastly believe that anyone arrested by ICE is an illegal alien and, yes, many of them also believe that any force used against such people is justified. Arguing with them from a humanitarian standpoint gets you nowhere. Pointing at stories like this, where they will clearly snatch up anyone on the street they think looks like they don't belong here is at least some ammunition to engage those peoples' cognitive dissonance.