ICE has faced overwhelming court losses in individual habeas cases on their arrest/detention practices. Instead of cleaning up its practices to comply with the law, the response has been to just arrest more and know relatively few will get lawyers to challenge them. A pure numbers game.
Aaron Reichlin-MelnickICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.