Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Immigration and Customs Enforcement   (Police, Front)
Abbreviation	ICE
Motto	"Protecting National Security and Upholding Public Safety"
Predecessor	•  Criminal investigation resources of the •  United States Immigration and Naturalization Service •  Investigative and intelligence resources of the •  United States Customs Service
Parent organization	US/Department/Homeland Security
Headquarters	Washington DC
Staff	19,330
Interests	immigrants, Civil asset forfeiture, human trafficking?
Interest of	Amnesty International USA
The US immigration service. Tasked with finding illegals, some reports have hinted it to be a front for sex trafficking.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a US based governmental group. It is given data such as guest lists by hotels.

Jurisdiction

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Americans from random and arbitrary stops and searches. However, this legal protection does not apply at the borders, defined as an within 100 miles of any U.S. "external boundary", an area where 200 million Americans live.

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Americans from random and arbitrary stops and searches. However, these basic constitutional principles do not apply fully at the borders, defined as an within 100 miles of any U.S. "external boundary." Roughly two-thirds of the United States' population lives within the 100-mile zone—that is, within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border. That's about 200 million people.

For example, at border crossings (also called "ports of entry"), federal authorities do not need a warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing to justify conducting what courts have called a "routine search," such as searching luggage or a vehicle. Formally. Border Patrol agents need a "reasonable suspicion" of an immigration violation or crime, but they routinely ignore or misunderstand the limits of their legal authority in the course of individual stops.

Methods

Civil asset forfeiture

Full article: Civil asset forfeiture

A 2017 a handbook was leaked which advised ICE members on Civil asset forfeiture.

Mass surveillance

Full article: Mass surveillance

The US deep state is using ICE to roll out Mass surveillance technology.

Sex trafficking

ICE Agents Pay For Sex In Trafficking Scheme - The Damage Report - 2020

In the summer of 2021 several high-profile cases in the US were uncovered. In Texas, US Border Patrol agents also continued to be arrested for abducting hundreds of children from detention centres.

The media seemed uninterested and The Atlantic ran a hit piece regarding the surge, calling it a mere coincidence ICE officers and federal officers keep getting arrested for sex trafficking migrant children that went missing in Southern US States.

In 2018, PBS Newshour reported over 1300 women and girls said they were raped and sexually assaulted by an ICE agent in their facilities, with many cases dropped for unknown reasons. Even more troublesome, in 2019, The Huffington Post reported ICE moved 700 migrant woman and girls from their detention centers, and refused to tell anyone - including lawyers, judges, other federal agencies or relatives where they went. In 2022, more ICE officers continued to be arrested for sex trafficking, with dozens of children still missing. Corporate media has maintained their official narrative that this is not a weird trend.

Number plate recognition

In January 2018, the ICE was officially permitted to agency-wide access to a nationwide license plate recognition database. The system gave the agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracking, raising concerns from civil liberties.

Hidden CCTV

In 2018 US government documents revealed that the ICE was hiding CCTV cameras in ordinary roadside objects such as street lights.

Minimum Prisoner levels

Ghita Schwartz, Senior Staff Attorney for CCR, said, in releasing the report: “Almost all guaranteed minimums [of prisoners] are found in facilities that contract with private prison companies, and ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] actively collaborates with these companies to keep details of their contracts secret.”

Presidential Briefings

Trump

President Trump’s following comment came during a White House discussion about so-called sanctuary cities. He was responding to Sheriff Margaret Mims, of Fresno County, California, who had recounted how California state laws were holding her back from cooperating with deportation efforts by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Here’s their exchange:

   Sheriff Mims: “There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.” 

Trump reacted with the following;

“We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.”
Donald Trump (May 2018) 

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