We probably should have seen this coming. ICE has a daily arrest target of 3,000 people per day, as set by Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem. This means individual agents are under pressure to snatch as many people as they can on the flimsiest of pretences, inevitably meaning many hundreds (thousands?) of people have been dragged into an endless nightmare for no reason whatsoever.
It was clear that ICE was always going to run out of their usual prey and would need to look elsewhere to hit their targets. But, cards on the table, we didn’t expect to see them coming after the cops!
