This tracks. According to this data the average of removal enforcements for people without conviction [imo wrongfully deported] used to be around 35% in 2021, and then climbed to 75% until 2014.
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 they’re 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 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.
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.
https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/remove/
This tracks. According to this data the average of removal enforcements for people without conviction [imo wrongfully deported] used to be around 35% in 2021, and then climbed to 75% until 2014.
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 they’re 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 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.
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.