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In October, ice agents “smashed the car windows and detained all seven occupants” of a van that they thought suspicious because people in it were going to work together. Carpooling. Carpooling is foreign and unintelligible to the brilliant and diligent ice agent who testified as JB. The concept of carpooling is beyond JB’s comprehension. 🤦‍♂️

The intellect on JB could be studied (but might make anyone studying it dumber).

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

#USpol #ice #carpool

JB said the team decided to follow the van once it departed, even though officers didn’t confirm whether the driver of the van was, in fact, the registered owner of the vehicle. JB found it suspicious that the driver was making multiple stops for passengers, saying: “You don’t know if it’s human trafficking or smuggling.” The fact that the occupants were “only speaking Spanish” during the stop seemed to “confirm” there was smuggling or “harboring people that are not supposed to be here in the United States”, JB said. ICE’s written report about the arrest, however, made no reference to JB’s concerns about potential trafficking or smuggling. When the plaintiff’s attorney asked JB about this discrepancy, he responded that one of the occupants had suggested they were “all going to work and they’re all from Mexico, so that kind of cancels out human trafficking”.

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’
Sam Levin (The Guardian)
#uspol #ice #carpool
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