On the Daily Mail’s second day embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from the Minneapolis hub, Jon Michael Raasch a U.S. Political Reporter for the Daily Mail, witnessed agents in action, and he found that arrests weren’t always the spectacle the media makes them out to be.
He described conversations with agents, talk about missing their families, and “the slow-moving, tedious watch-and-wait game that is not captured in the news footage or headlines” as they attempted to make arrests.
Finally, after what seemed like “another fruitless ride-along,” he was part of a high-speed drive to an arrest.
From Daily Mail: The Nissan whipped into a strip mall so fast that everyone grabbed their assist handles. Another sharp turn and the subject appeared on foot, trying to enter a taco shop with a friend.
The driver lit up the unmarked car’s lights. The two men frantically tried the shop’s front door. It was locked. They turned to face the agents. Other agents in their vehicles pulled up instantly, one blocking the men’s car.
An agent speaking Spanish asked if they had identification. One produced a Honduran passport. The other handed over documents.
The Honduran man had a prior criminal history for trespassing and was wanted for illegal entry, agents explained. He’d already been flagged for immigration proceedings. His companion was in the country on a worker authorization issued by the Biden administration. He, too, would face removal proceedings.
The two men were arrested and taken to the Whipple Federal Building for processing. Raasch noted that the arrests were “peaceful, even professional,” in contrast with the viral ICE videos where chaos ensues.
In fact, he said the only drama came from a single “white woman in her early to mid-twenties” who came from the coffee shop. The woman “kept her distance and stayed silent, but was clearly displeased.”
Read more at Daily Mail
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