They've killed citizens of the US as well as kidnapping them in repeated displays of indiscriminate zeal. It's likely that they'll continue to act lawlessly. The greasy eminence Steve Bannon has said they should be deployed to polling places to 'maintain order' and prevent fraud--i.e. to intimidate and deter voters. Even if Trump doesn't use that idea, ICE will no doubt provide content for their own thread here.
Included in their infamous actions: taking people into custody when they show up for court dates, usually while those people were attempting to comply with legal requirements to maintain residence in the US. This was based on a lie. ICE is a weapon, and it's being used by creeps like Steven Miller who're willing to ignore the laws of the country to enact their xenophobic agenda. Tools like US Attorney General Bondi are there to enthusiastically smooth the path to fascism.
'Pam Bondi’s DOJ Admits Jaw-Dropping ‘Error’ Used to Justify Arrests'
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has confessed it spent nearly a year misleading a federal court about its justification for the mass arrest of immigrants at their own hearings.
The Trump administration launched its courthouse arrest practice following the president’s return to the White House, with federal agents regularly seizing migrants in hallways outside immigration courtrooms, sometimes within minutes of those migrants appearing before a judge to plead their cases.
Legal advocates said the tactic turned the immigration court system into an enforcement trap, punishing people for doing what the law required of them.
Now the Justice Department has acknowledged that the legal foundation the administration built its case on was never there.
The admission came in a letter filed Tuesday with Judge P. Kevin Castel by Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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At the center of the blunder is a May 27, 2025, ICE memorandum titled Civil Immigration Enforcement Actions in or Near Courthouses, which the government had repeatedly leaned on in its defense.
Clayton told Judge Castel, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, that ICE counsel informed the Justice Department on the morning the letter was filed that the guidance “does not and has never applied to civil immigration enforcement actions” at immigration courts—which, critically, fall under the Justice Department’s own jurisdiction, not ICE’s.
The government is now withdrawing the relevant portions of multiple court briefs and statements made at a Sept. 2, 2025, oral argument that relied on the guidance.
Clayton acknowledged the full cascading nature of the error—that his attorneys had been specifically told by ICE that the guidance did apply to immigration courthouse arrests, obtained ICE approval before filing every brief in the case, and received that assurance throughout the litigation. The error, he wrote, “appears to have occurred because of agency attorney error.”
Immigration advocates were scathing. “ICE has claimed that a 2025 memorandum authorized and justified their devastating policy of conducting mass arrests at immigration courts,” Amy Belsher, director of immigrant rights litigation at the New York Civil Liberties Union, wrote in a letter to Judge Castel.
“The government is now admitting that this document—which the court relied on to deny our clients relief—does not and never has authorized these courthouse arrests. It is another example of ICE’s brazen disregard for the lives of immigrants in this country.”
