Last week, top ICE officials ordered officers to increase arrests and to get “creative” in their methods, including trying to nab people the officers happen to encounter in what are known as “collateral arrests.” The orders come in the wake of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller setting a quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day, along with a sharp rise in protests against the crackdown.

In Westbury, the HSI agents didn’t respond to the gathered crowd. After a few minutes, the agents drove away. A commotion erupted down the road, off-camera, and onlookers began rushing toward the corner.

One of the Nissans, carrying two of the HSI agents, had crashed into a black pickup truck that happened to be passing through the intersection. Three eyewitnesses told The Intercept that the agents’ car had sped away. Two of the witnesses believe the Nissan blew a stop sign, causing the crash. (Nassau County police referred questions about the accident to ICE, which did not respond to an inquiry.)

  • @dutchkimble@lemy.lol
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    297 days ago

    I wonder if ICE agents are paid a lot more than those people would be in other jobs having the same qualifications/experience etc, and that’s the reason why they stay on. Or some massive perks or something. Why isn’t there a mass exodus of ICE agents leaving? Or maybe there is and it’s not reported? There must be some attraction?

    • @IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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      507 days ago

      I’m pretty much convinced they recruited all these thugs from alt-right groups and disgraced ex-police in the last few months. They don’t have uniforms or badges. They wear face masks and refuse to identify themselves. They needed a bunch of guys that had no problem with being cruel and hateful and they were right there ready to step up.

      • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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        117 days ago

        They have to. Where else would so many new ones come from? So many who are so unaware of rights and laws?

      • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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        67 days ago

        yea these are most likely the same people who formed their own local militias and jerked off to fantasies of shooting protesters.

      • @phx@lemmy.ca
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        57 days ago

        They probably just walk around downtown and recruit from whomever has a cut-off shirt and a swastika tattoo

    • Doug Holland
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      247 days ago

      The massive perk is that they get to be cruel bastards and hate for a living.