Ice officers encouraged to ‘push the envelope’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chance
Senior US immigration officials over the weekend instructed rank-and-file officers to “turn the creative knob up to 11” when it comes to enforcement, including by interviewing and potentially arresting people they called “collaterals”, according to internal agency emails viewed by the Guardian.
Officers were also urged to increase apprehensions and think up tactics to “push the envelope” one email said, with staff encouraged to come up with new ways of increasing arrests and suggesting them to superiors.
“If it involves handcuffs on wrists, it’s probably worth pursuing,” another message said.
May be worse than that, think like a war. Collateral damage is when say we are concerned with getting Isis. We realize that say there’s 10 Isis members and 2 unrelated civilians in an area, so we drop the bomb anyway because we make the judgement call that stopping the guilty is more important than not killing innocents.
Collateral arrests to me sounds like they are OK with arresting/deporting people that may not even be related in any way to the undocumented immigrants, but may simply just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
To a white supremacist, any nonwhite they can excise from the country is a win, there are no qualifiers, only excuses and what they can get away with.
A couple immigration prosecutors have been outed as extremely vile racists by their online activity. I don’t think they are all like this, but enough of them are.