ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests

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5. sad.. the whole nation of laws, not men thing

Fleming called the implications of Wall’s email “a very troubling step to basically permit officers to brazenly violate the law as it is written, in the limits of their authority, to make arrests. And particularly as we're looking at various threats to expand their enforcement in communities, it's very concerning that they're taking a step to lessen the guardrails of their enforcement.”

The reinstatement of the first Trump administration’s policy (or lack thereof) regarding warrantless arrests comes on the heels of an exclusive published by The Guardian last week which quotes emails from top immigration officials instructing agents to “turn the creative knob up to 11” and “push the envelope” when it comes to enforcement. They proposed achieving this by arrested undocumented people they come in contact with by chance, rather than targeted enforcement. That story also mentioned the Trump administration setting a quota of 3,000 immigrants arrested every day. Fleming thinks this massive number could have something to do with the announcements on warrantless arrests.

“I think for folks that don't want to follow the law, it's a free license to make any arrest, irrespective of what limits there might be that Congress has set,” Fleming said. “And even for the others, there's a lot of pressure to make the arrests. And so they're going to cut even more corners.