A growing number of reports suggest that some Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are engaging in theft during operations, including instances where detainees’ possessions, such as jewellery and personal belongings, are allegedly taken and sold or kept by agents.

The most recent and disturbing evidence emerged from Minnesota, where a photograph circulated showing an ICE agent wearing a gold bracelet. The bracelet was allegedly taken from a detainee during an arrest.

‘It now appears that some ICE agents are stealing from the people they’re arresting. This agent was photographed with a gold bracelet he took off a man in Minnesota,’ a viral post on X was shared.

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      The point isn’t that they support it, it’s that they are pacified by the theater while the US continues to build an underclass of person around the label of criminal that is predominately applied to black and brown people.