On Tuesday, the immigration enforcement officers of the US launched a website, claiming that President Donald Trump needs to do more to clean up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which they say has members of the Obama administration still in place and holding back immigration enforcement.
In Philadelphia recently, supervisors banned ICE officers from wearing bulletproof vests while carrying out an operation in the dangerous northern areas of the city, lest it offended the immigrant community, according to the new website, jicreport.com. Meanwhile, in Utah, city officials must be notified a week in advance before anyone can be arrested, which, the site claims, results in targets no longer being in place when agents arrive.
The website, put together by the National ICE Council representing agency officers, is part of an effort to force the President to take notice of those who gave him strong support during his Presidential campaign. The officers claim that those supporters now feel betrayed. An open letter to Trump on the site, written by Chris Crane, the President of the ICE Council, says that all the leaders and managers installed by the Obama administration remain in place, slamming them as being corrupt, incompetent, and against the notion of immigration enforcement.
During the last administration, ICE became an embattled organization, with many officers who joined to help enforce immigration laws complaining that they were severely restricted in the ways they could perform their duties.