ICE agents in New York City demonstrate their targeted enforcement approach, focusing on individuals like convicted sex offenders rather than sweeping up undocumented immigrants. The article explores the challenges and priorities of immigration enforcement under the incoming Trump administration.
Monday, December 23, 2024 2:15PMThe immigration officers sat in their vehicles before dawn near a two-story building. A New York subway line rumbled overhead, then an officer's voice crackled over the radio.
"It's called targeted enforcement," Genalo said. "We don't grab people and then take them to JFK and put them on a plane." Those staffing numbers have largely remained static as their caseload has roughly quadrupled over the past decade to 7.6 million. About 10% of that workforce was pulled from their regular duties last year to go to the U.S.-Mexico border at times when immigration spiked.
Besides the 23-year-old Ecuadorian man, they were going after a 36-year-old Mexican man convicted of forcibly touching a young girl and another Ecuadorian also convicted of sexual abuse of a minor. She said she knew why her husband had been arrested but felt there were important mitigating factors. She said they knew it was possible her husband could be sent back to Ecuador after his criminal case wrapped up but that it was still a shock.
Genalo said agents spend time and resources picking up immigrants few would argue should have the right to stay in America.
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