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(CNN)Wilson Rodriguez Macarreno and his family were in trouble, so he did what he knew to do -- call police for help. About an hour later, he was in ICE custody.
Rodriguez's detention on Thursday sent shockwaves through the Seattle-suburb and is now garnering national attention from advocates, warning the way authorities handled the case could make immigrants scared to call police to report crimes.
Early Thursday morning, Rodriguez saw someone trespassing on his property in Tukwila, Washington. In the last few weeks, someone had been repeatedly trying to break-in to his home and car. So, he called 9-1-1.
Police arriving on scene apprehended a trespasser according to Rodriguez's lawyer Luis Cortes.
After giving officers his ID for what he thought was "report purposes," police put Rodriguez in handcuffs, his lawyer said. After running his information through the National Crime Information Center database, officers saw he had an outstanding warrant.
In reality, officers executed an administrative ICE warrant.
Tukwila Police say in their Facebook post ICE told to them it's been entering administrative warrants into the database the same as criminal warrants. And that, "we may be encountering more of these types of warrants in the future."
Discouraging law abiding immigrants from calling police. What could possibly go wrong?
Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)Thats just fucking sick and twisted...welcometo Trumps America I suppose, SMDH
TEB
(12,872 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)Prima Donnie has handed ICE a directive to make more deportations than under Obama (and remember, O was no slouch in that department), so ICE does what any LE bureaucracy does when handed a quota: go for the easiest first so that you can show youre being diligent about your task, in order to deflect the blame when pickings get harder and you fall behind target.
Plus the ones who are just bigoted assholes given permission to run wild (by another bigoted asshole). A non-trivial factor, that.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Can fill their for profit prisons with when they run out of immigrants.
Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)The actual criminal immigrants Trump always whines about are much harder to detain than the ones who just want to do their jobs and avoid trouble.
Oh, and it is getting increasingly obvious that ICE is shot through with racism and bigotry.
sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)getting to the bottom of the Russia issue. If there was collusion, it was and is treason. Impeach and try Cheetoh and Pence if he also colluded. Then install our party member (SoH) as president.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)A good portion of crimes are solved because of people reaching out to the police with information about the crime of the criminal who committed it. Who will cooperate with police when they act like the gestapo?
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)and point fingers at ICE for deliberately entering administrative warrants into the criminal system.
I doubt that since the warrant would have to say what the crime was. Either way, I'm not sure how police would benefit from detaining law abiding undocumented immigrants.
ICE is deliberately going after law abiding responsible family people because they are easier to catch than the dangerous ones. Police should not be helping.
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)Asshole behavior like this just makes it much harder to catch the dangerous ones because the law abiding ones will hesitate to report it.