As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused

[Dulcinea]

(AP) Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.

At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020, and their documented wrongdoing includes patterns of physical and sexual abuse, corruption and other abuses of authority, a review by The Associated Press found.

While most of the cases happened before Congress voted last year to give ICE $75 billion to hire more agents and detain more people, experts say these kinds of crimes could accelerate given the sheer volume of new employees and their empowerment to use aggressive tactics to arrest and deport people.

https://apnews.com/article/ice-agents-arrested-misconduct-crimes-abuse-corruption-45b0d2248c0add9523e0bf5a953faaea

[Scrivener7]

1. Don't you just love the normalizing in that headline? Yeah, two murdered Minnesotans and

countless assaults on American citizens, and countless warrant-less home invasions - I think we already knew their powers "can be" abused.

And "two dozen"? It would surprise me if the majority of them weren't criminals and domestic abusers.