A Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law study found a “widespread pattern of misconduct by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement” after reviewing 700 arrest reports from predawn raids of homes in New York and New Jersey. Among other things, the study found that the ICE agents failed to obtain proper consent to enter the homes in 86% of the Nassau and Suffolk County arrests. One police commissioner is quoted by the New York Times as saying that “If any local law enforcement agency in the nation were involved in these types of widespread constitutional violation it would prompt a federal investigation.”
Perhaps most disturbing about the report is that the current Secretary of Homeland Security has only changed some of the policies that the report suggests be changed. To review the report, visit here.