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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

Why are they removing people from planes leaving the country to detain them.

From just my reading of the various news stories around ICE activity I've come to a few conclusions about what the internal policy must be:

Reduce immigrant population in USA by X - Use as close to legal justifications as possible, even the weakest thinnest reasons, but also don't be afraid to simply make stuff up if you need to deport the person. If you can get them out of the country under false reasons, then their ability to get back in becomes much harder even when US government Judicial rulings allow them back because their deportation or deportation lacking in due process was unConstitutional.

So to accomplish this they seem to be operating in this order:

  1. Immigrants picked up by active criminal investigations unrelated to immigration status.
  2. Raids and actions seeking out immigrants who have committed no crimes, but with unsettled legal immigration status.
  3. Immigrants that travel through Border Checkpoint systems: visa renew, Green Card application, even entrances and exit points on the border. These immigrants are then threatened, coerced, or tricked into "voluntarily" surrendering their legal immigrant status at which time they are deported.
  4. Immigrants who may have committed and been convicted of minor crimes, even if many decades prior, where they have served time or otherwise paid their debt to society (even a small fine). Minor guilty plea deal marijuana possession charge from 10-15 years ago are not uncommon justification for deportation here.
  5. Immigrants that are actively engaging with government systems (as in unrelated to justice system). This can be for social services, family services, educations, or even healthcare.

The more desperate ICE becomes to try to accomplish their primary goal, the longer this list gets on where they go and what they do.

So to answer your question about the case here in the OP, my guess is perhaps #3 or #4. We won't know until he's released from custody and is able to tell us.