The New York Times' Nina Bernstein has done some digging since the house raids on Long Island in August drew criticism from local police officers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has denied using racial profiling during immigration raids, claiming the operations are carefully planned and executed. The newspaper's account of how the Long Island raids played out tells a different story.

Learn how you can support immigrant communities and defend American ideals of due process and human rights as Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to step up harsh enforcement measures and raid our homes and workplaces.

The immigration raid at a government-contracted factory last March in New Bedford, Massachusetts, caught national attention with stories of missing parents and children who found themselves abandoned at the end of the school day. Several months later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to be executing several raids on any given day and is more likely to arrest people right in their homes, sometimes in front of their children.

It's been a sad week for thousands of families who have been affected by large-scale Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on both U.S. coasts.