Tricia McLaughlin:
Our ICE enforcement officers, they’re consistently meeting their numbers. We want to get those numbers up, though, especially for violent criminals.
But, Amna, I think, more than that, we have to look at the culture that has been for the last four years. Our ICE enforcement officers have been demonized. They’re facing a 413 percent increase in assaults against them. But for the last four years, they were told, don’t do your job, don’t make these arrests.
So we have had to have some leadership changes. We have had to really reinvigorate this organization, so they’re empowered to do their job to make these arrests.
