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[–] notastatist@feddit.org 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are scince the first day of enscription. They are a criminal gang, there have been almost 40 deaths because of ICE.

Any one in any other group which is responsible for 40 deaths is going to be guilty.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Almost forty deaths that we know of.

[–] Innerworld@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Being undocumented isn’t a criminal offense.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

...yet. Watch these pigs criminalize it

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder how many ICE agents don't have criminal records

[–] phx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Oh, probably the ones that managed to avoid it because they are cops, were cops, are friends of cops, etc

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago

America is slowly becoming the second version of Israel.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Estimates suggest 1 to 1.5 percent of people detained or deported might actually be American citizens. Do the math. With detention numbers over 60,000, that’s hundreds of wrongful detentions every single year. Hundreds of people who were born here, who have birth certificates and Social Security numbers, thrown into detention because someone couldn’t be bothered to check.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

More “wrongful detentions” than that, because legal immigrants shouldn’t be deported like that either.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't even believe that number. I'd believe it if the number is actually somewhere over 90%.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Many of those were small infractions. I would bet no more than 4% of that 30% is actually a "bad" infraction, and then how many of those are false accusations etc...

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/remove/

This tracks. According to this data the percentage of removal enforcements for people without conviction [imo wrongfully deported] climbed from around 35% to 75% between 2021 and 2024.

To put it plainly: in 2024 ICE deported 75% for nothing. Just vibes. And this is specifically ICE, any other agency has been excluded from these numbers.

In fact if you look at the numbers by month and year, we get a percentage of 33.3% for Feb 2021 and 74.9% for Feb 2024 for the same category.

The ethical boundaries changed. ICE is getting direct instructions to grab anyone who looks suspicious just so they can meet their quota. Currently they are composed of a ragtag team of new hires and people pulled from other agencies with a mind-boggling budget and insane pressure to meet numbers that are unreachable. They are being pressure cooked by their command chain and in that environment of course empathetic people will just sign out and people with an agenda or psychopaths will stay. So the direct command is to focus not only on people with criminal history (which even back then meant people with traffic offenses and other minor violations) but also now people with no criminal record at all, which puts the whole purpose of this agency into question and kind of rips this agency away from it's core structure and goals.

For a more fulsome picture of the agency, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbtrdfYqBc

John Harris shines a light on the change in agency culture and structure by using a list of different sources and data to show their current tasks and goals.

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Joe Biden deported 35% of detainees for no reason? What an absolute piece of garbage.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago