ICE arrests more than 1,200 in 2 southeastern states this month amid rise in threats and attacks
Georgia and Mississippi logged more than 1,200 ICE arrests this month. Vehicle attacks on officers are up 1,300%. Death threats are up 8,000%.
Summary
- Just the News, citing The Center Square, reports ICE officers arrested more than 1,200 people in Georgia and Mississippi this month, with arrests made without incident even as vehicle attacks on ICE rose 1,300% and death threats rose 8,000%.
- In Georgia, Operation Safe Community Atlanta arrested 1,226 criminal foreign nationals. Nearly all were men with long records. 720 had been convicted or charged in the United States. Five were taken at a trucking company known for hiring illegal foreign nationals.
- More than 100 Georgia agencies and more than 60 in Mississippi have signed 287(g) deals, most under the Task Force Model that lets local officers identify and help ICE during ordinary stops.
- In Mississippi, Operation Muddy Waters arrested 70 people in a child-exploitation sweep, including a Honduran national who allegedly traveled from Tennessee to meet a child and a Bangladeshi national in Alabama accused of contacting a 14-year-old boy.
Commentary
A sheriff's deputy in a county lot still wipes gravel off a knee and runs a name before the next DUI line. He does not need a seminar. He needs a 287(g) that lets him finish the stop.
That is the gap. One thousand two hundred twenty-six in Atlanta. Seventy in a child-exploitation net. Officers ate a 1,300% jump in vehicle attacks and an 8,000% jump in death threats and still brought them in without a riot. The old model left the jail door as the only handshake.
Look every parent in those two states in the eye: if local badges can ID a predator at a checkpoint, who decided that was the part of 1996 worth starving?
Comments
A Task Force Model is a handshake. A jail-only model is a shrug after the damage.
I ran plates at a stop. Sharing a name with ICE is not a raid. It is the job.
Congress wrote 287(g) in 1996. Using all three models is the statute, not a mood.
Allied countries do not need a press release to let a local cop flag a removed man.
Watch who funds the 'no cooperation' flyers. They never sat a child-exploitation briefing.
I get docked for a late punch. They ate an 8,000% threat spike and still closed 1,226 files.
Seventy arrests in a child-exploitation sweep. That is not a vibe. That is a school-night reason.
A 1,300% jump in vehicle attacks is a tactic. Arm the task force. Keep the count public.
Just the News printed 1,226, 720 charged, 70 in Muddy Waters, and the threat math. Argue those nouns.
Sign the next 287(g). Prosecute the border crimes. Stop making ICE hunt alone.
