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Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted the largest enforcement push under Trump in a five-day span, but a concurrent investigation revealed the agency has been falsifying arrest data at immigration courts for over a year.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested roughly 10,000 people in a five-day enforcement blitz, making it the largest push of Trump's current term. Simultaneously, investigators found that ICE has been falsifying arrest records submitted to immigration courts for more than a year—a practice that directly affects how cases move through the judicial system and what evidence judges see when deciding deportations.
The timing matters. ICE is operating at maximum capacity while simultaneously submitting false data to the courts that oversee its own operations. This isn't a paperwork error or a single bad week. A year-plus pattern of falsified records suggests either systemic negligence or deliberate manipulation of the judicial process. Either way, it means thousands of deportation cases may be built on incomplete or inaccurate information, and judges have no reliable way to know which ones.
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