However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is -- the reality is far far worse.

[LymphocyteLover]

Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.


https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

On Friday, I testified in front of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Illinois Accountability Commission,” the state government body he set up after the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” attack on Chicago last summer and the precursor of the even larger federal occupation of Minneapolis that we’re experiencing now. The body’s goal is to both document what happened to Chicago, with an eye on future prosecutions, understand the role of various Trump officials in this federal occupation, and offer recommendations about how to fix immigration enforcement going forward.

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As I told the commission, “US law enforcement has never experienced a scandal as big, as far-reaching, destructive, and as far-lasting as the wave of corruption and criminality that has overtaken CBP and the Border Patrol since 2005. It’s a story that too much of the public still doesn’t know and too many policymakers still don’t understand.”

I also totaled up some new numbers to get at the scale of the problem:

Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink.

In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.) To put that number in perspective:

• The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.

• Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

[Joinfortmill]

1. Growing fascism. Stay strong.

[PatSeg]

2. Whoa, those are incredible statistics

Really frightening. Lets' give known criminals weapons and power; what could possibly go wrong?

[mountain grammy]

3. turns out CBP and ICE agents are the real criminals..

I'm disappointed this wasn't cleaned up during the Obama administration. Guess it wasn't "politically correct"

[LymphocyteLover]

8. too much poltical pressure from the right always screaming about immigrants coming over the border, I suspect

[mountain grammy]

10. Yes, that is so true.

and sad because the Justice Dept should have investigated blatant criminal abuse. I knew a woman where I used to live who's son was Border Patrol. Once we were at an event with them (very small town) and they were bragging about their son and the good money he made because they could take what they wanted from the illegals. I asked, do they have anything worth stealing? and she said, you'd be surprised what they bring.. and I said well it's clearly illegal for our federal agents to steal their belongings. She said, they're illegal and have no right to anything and the agents have complete immunity. I said, I'm calling my Congressman who at the time was Jared Polis.. I did and got a nice letter saying he would look into it.

We need to stop letting republicans run America.

[FakeNoose]

4. Misconduct, illegal behavior, civil provocation - that's what they do

And now they've become Chump's personal REVENGE squad.

Chump didn't start ICE or CBP but he's certainly using them to his own advantage.

[S/V Loner]

5. Forget defunding ICE...

It is time to defund the entire Department of Homeland Security. Way too much power and even the use of the word Homeland is disgusting and reminiscent of distorted nationalism.

[LymphocyteLover]

9. absolutely

[JT45242]

6. the last bullet point states everything you need to know

I know Rethugs hate per capita stats because they show how abysmal life is under their rule. But, there it is.

[DrMJG10]

7. More that a warning...

I would like to hear Sec. Noam and or really anyone from DHS respond. But, then again, I would love to be 40 years younger. I expect to become younger has the same chance of happening as would the DHS responding to the report from the Illinois Governor!.