Michelle Hackman

They have this address on file with the government.

We know who they are.

We know where they live.

So we're going to go try to get them.

Now what's happening more and more is ICE officers is really being driven by the pressure that they're under to arrest lots of people.

And so what we're seeing is they're actually using basic profiling tactics to see if they can't find immigrants a little bit more quickly.

So there are two steps to making an arrest.

You need to have reasonable suspicion to stop someone and question them.

But then you need to have what's called probable cause to actually take them into your custody.

You can't reasonably suspect that someone's in the country illegally just because they're Hispanic.

But what the Supreme Court has said recently is that you can actually take a number of those profiling factors.

Let's say you're Hispanic and you look terrified when you see the ICE officer.

That suddenly now does rise to the level of reasonable suspicion to then stop someone and say, OK, do you have proof of your citizenship?

Yeah, this is a huge deal.

Typically in the past, you would need the sign-off of a judge who sort of independently evaluated the evidence and decided that level of force was needed.

But ICE has just decided we need to be making more arrests.

We're going to disregard that.

And we're going to argue that this administrative warrant that ICE itself produces is enough to force down someone's door.

break in and arrest them.

ICE is moving quickly to try to deport people as fast as they can, because once someone is out of the country, it's harder to force ICE to bring them back.