Video sheds light on 7-Eleven arrests by ICE in Maryland
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Security cameras at a Maryland 7-Eleven are helping to shed light on an immigration raid two years ago that resulted in the arrests of 24 Latino men. The Washington Post reports in depth today about what happened when an ICE team — one of many assigned to track down illegal immigrants with deportation orders — was pressured to meet its arrest quota of 1,000 per year.
The story also says that ICE has adjusted its quota again, requiring each team to “identify and target — though not necessarily arrest — 50 fugitives each month.” (A fugitive generally means someone who has ignored a deportation order.) The quotas, and the shift away from high-priority criminal targets, were the subject of other documents obtained by a New York law school immigration clinic and released this month.
Below is the security footage, narrated and and analyzed by the Washington Post.
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