Almost two weeks after they showed their viewers how to evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on their evening newscasts, ABC, CBS, and NBC marveled at their work Tuesday night as they celebrated the activists who obstructed ICE raids last week.
operation border resolve, i.c.e. said it arrested 35 people. 18 were members of family units and others were collateral arrests of people found to be in the country illegally. there were far greater numbers arrested under what is called operation cross check which targets people call involved in criminal activity between may 13 and july 11. 899 people were arrested and 605 of them had criminal convictions and at 90s we were facing criminal charges. also you mentioned this of the top, dhs also moving to expand so-called expedited removals, a program that was created in 1986 and a law passed during the clinton administration that allows customs and border protection to quickly deport people who sneaked into the country and do not have an asylum claim or pending integratioimmigration court pro. it first started in 2004 and there were certain restrictions on it at the time. had to be applied within 14 days
some are part of specific daca that came into the country as a family unit and because they were with family they were released at the border and they were given instructions to report to immigration court, they didn t do that, the judge reviewed their circumstances and ordered them deported, now it s time to close the loop. people love families and when you say something along the lines people are just trying to separate families, the administration that is, that s very polarizing, here is what some of the top immigration officials said over the weekend. the design is not about family separation, that s not the intent, it never has been, never will be, over a million people with removal orders. how do you win this messaging battle? let people know that this is the rule of law scenario. people weren t up in arms when we did this in 2016, 2017 operation border resolve, have
journal contributor kent zimmerman arguing for the splc. good to see you tonight, both of you. thank you so much. shannon: i want to read about what we are getting from the splc. the freedom from unlawful searches and seizures are among america s most fundamental values. law enforcement officials at all levels are legally required to protect these constitutional rights. the anything goes method of the i.c.e. agents a liberated due process for families and did nothing to enhance national security. emily, they say they were stronger pretending to be police officers are looking for specific criminal suspects but what they were trying to do was to get inside. they say that does not comport with the fourth amendment. what say you? the 11th circuit has held that police officers or federal agents can lie to get their way in the door. in terms of the warrantless search, viewers need to understand that the construed constitutional protection against warrantless searches is not immutable
security approved operation border resolve in direct response to a spike in illegal border crossings by certain central american countries. the targets of this operation were those family units and unauthorized alien children who under the age of 18 and confirmed on suspected gang member 16 years and older. every single one of these targets that i capture prior as well as a final order of departure by a federal immigration judge i not had any pending motions before an immigration port. actually, southern poverty law center hints at this when they mentioned the ankle bracelets as one of their plaintiffs, as the majority of them had additional criminal convictions for violent crimes. so here the authorization and the execution of this operation qualifies as the special and sufficiently strong justification and exigent circumstances needed for a warrantless search greatly when i feel like i just went back to law school. kent, that s a lot that we have learned. let me read a little bit. th