ICE Director Thomas Homan is sad. For the last few months, his agents have been arresting people off the streets. Frequently masked, without showing identification, they grab people, bundle them into a van and take them to a detention centre. From this point on, they are transferred from one location to another in an attempt to evade court orders ordering the release of the person they have kidnapped.
This behaviour has attracted a lot of criticism, such as calling it gestapo tactics. This makes Director Homan particularly sad. It’s not fair to compare his brave, hard-working men to nazis – they are only obeying orders, after all.
It’s good that he’s sorted out this misunderstanding. There is another that he may have to answer in the near future: why are his men now illegally arresting opposition politicians?
The Mayor of Newark went to a detention centre with three members of Congress. Congresscritters have the statutory power to enter such facilities at will and conduct inspections without notice. However, they were refused entry. The Mayor was arrested after he left, for trespass apparently, by masked agents and taken away in an unmarked car. The DHS is now considering also arresting the Congress members.
Republican Representative Dan Bishop commented, “Members of Congress and the Mayor of Newark committed an insurrection… Worse than 9/11… Hunt them down.”
It sounds like Director Homan is doing exactly the job that is expected of him.
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