From a commenter on Washington Post article concerning ICE [View all]

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I thought some may find this interesting from a commenter on an ICE Washington Post article about the official role of ICE. The commenter replied to me with this "And if you check you will find every word of that corresponds with the current Federal law, regulations and guidelines regarding ICE agents. "

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It is a tragedy that so many Americans & commenters here feel free to express their opinions on this incident but are absolutely clueless about federal laws, law enforcement duties, procedures, and limits of authority with regard to ICE:

ICE agents ARE NOT police officers, deputy sheriffs, or troopers. They are not local/state law enforcement. They are not federal criminal law enforcement. They have an INCREDIBLY limited scope of authority, and that scope of authority exists in detaining and arresting with probable cause and/or SIGNED WARRANTS those investigated and suspected of being in the US illegally.

They cannot just pull anyone over for a traffic violation or because their car is in a place they don't want it. They have NO authority to pull people over for ANYTHING other than immigration enforcement- and even then that involves probable cause, such as a known vehicle of someone they have been tracking, or a warrant. On very rare occasions they have the legal authority to pull someone over if they are threatening the lives of others, but that was not happening in this case. They do not have the training nor the authority to pull ANYONE else over. They cannot arrest legal citizens. They cannot detain legal citizens without probable cause to believe they might not be legal. They have ZERO authority to be attempting to force entry into a vehicle- without even identifying themselves, without a warrant, without exigent circumstances such as a life being directly threatened- that is trying to drive down the street without probable cause in relation to IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT.