At least three people in three states have been arrested recently on charges that they had impersonated immigration agents or police officers to threaten others amid mounting efforts by the Trump administration to increase deportations.

On Saturday night, two students at Temple University in North Philadelphia identified themselves as “police and ICE agents” to security at a residence hall and disrupted a nearby dessert shop, according to university officials and the Philadelphia Police Department. One of the two students, Aidan Steigelmann, 22, was arrested and charged with impersonating an officer, police said.

A third person, who was described as a “former student who is no longer affiliated with the university,” also joined the two students. The episode was recorded by one of the three people involved, the university said. It was not clear what had happened inside the dessert shop.

Efforts to contact Steigelmann were not successful.

— The New York Times