Michelle Hackman

The first shooting of Rene Good had an almost, you know, rally around the flag effect.

That was the sentiment inside the administration, that they were doing nothing wrong.

The word that I heard administration officials use was righteous.

Administration officials have been passing around polling showing that their operation is really unpopular with voters and not just with Democrats.

And so all of that was freaking people out and having them look for an off ramp.

Thank you.

So ICE was founded in 2003.

It existed in another form before then, but after 9-11, the government really revamped its sort of law enforcement and particularly its law enforcement around foreigners and allowing foreigners into the country.

And separated out this agency to really step up deportations and also investigating foreigners who were using the immigration process to commit crimes.

ICE's mandate is really specifically to go find people in the country illegally, arrest them, and get them out of the country.

So it's interesting because they use a lot of the same law enforcement tactics as most other law enforcement agencies, but their mandate is civil.

It's not criminal.

If you're here in the country illegally, that technically is not a crime.

It's actually like a little bit closer, technically speaking, to getting a parking ticket.

It's a civil violation of

The consequence of it is deportation.

But in the government's sort of really sterile legal parlance, deportation is not supposed to be like a criminal punishment.

So the training is evolving as we speak.

Traditionally, an ICE officer is supposed to get something like 16 weeks of training, and that includes everything from

learning the basics of immigration law, physical training, law enforcement training, how to use a gun, for example, and also learning to speak Spanish.