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Immigrant rights groups filed lawsuits claiming ICE agents conducted warrantless arrests to meet quotas, while an immigration judge filed a whistleblower suit after being fired for flagging unlawful detention of a minor. When a judge ordered ICE to stop retaliating against an Ohi
Immigrant rights groups filed lawsuits alleging ICE agents made arrests without warrants to hit numerical targets. An immigration judge separately filed a whistleblower suit after being fired for flagging unlawful detention of a minor. A separate court order told ICE to stop retaliating against an Ohio judge who'd challenged their practices. The pattern across these cases is identical: enforcement priorities that override legal procedure.
Quotas create an obvious problem: if you need to arrest X people by Friday to meet a number, the threshold for who you arrest drops. Legal niceties like warrants become obstacles. The fact that a judge was fired for raising this concern, and that ICE had to be court-ordered to stop retaliating, suggests this isn't a one-off complaint—it's operational culture. When enforcement is measured in arrests rather than legitimate legal outcomes, the system inverts.
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