A Colombian national is facing up to 20 years in prison after allegedly breaking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer’s nose during an attempted arrest in Roselle, New Jersey back in February during an enforcement operation.
The 27-year-old man, identified as Hector Villegas-Alvarez, was approached by ICE agents who had determined he was unlawfully present in the United States and subject to deportation.
According to an official statement by the New Jersey Attorney’s Office, Villegas-Alvarez exited his vehicle when ordered to do so but physically resisted arrest, locking his arms and tensing his body when officers attempted to apply handcuffs.
Yes, they are federal police with broader authority because they enforce immigration policy. Just like immigration officers in any other country when you go through an airport. Anywhere within 100 miles of a port of entry (airports, boarders, ports) they can search and detain people. They started hiring double the amount of officers the day Trump won. Most of these people doing this crap are probably fresh recruits who got kicked out of pokice departments or coudn’t get hired in the first place. Basically party loyalists aka brownshirts.
So they are probably mostly people who hate immigrant/colored people and want to be able to do so professionally?
Always have been, but much less professional candidates now than before. They also do customs inspections for packages, containers, trucks, etc. Those people are probably just in it for a job, since they’re checking for drugs and other contraband.