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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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[–] spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

to some extent, this is "yeah, everyone knows they've given arrest quotas, and told to use bullshit AI apps that fabricate arrest reasons" - but it's still important, for the historical record if nothing else, to have contemporaneous, under-oath statements about it.

In the hearing, an ICE agent identified as JB testified that his team was given a verbal order to target eight arrests a day.

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JB testified that officers had started the day by surveilling an apartment complex. He suggested officers choose the location in part based on intelligence from an app called Elite. It’s unclear the exact role Elite played in identifying the area as a target – another officer testified that the ICE field office in Portland had provided “intelligence” that led them to visit the site. But JB explained that Elite was a “newer app” given to ICE agents. The app, he said, is “kind of like Google Maps” and shows how many individuals with an “immigration nexus” are believed to be in a certain area. Another officer testified that a “nexus” could mean any history of contact with immigration officials, which could include a naturalized US citizen.