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.
There was a story a couple of weeks ago about an American citizen kid who was detained, and later released, but they never gave him his phone back.
He used Find My Phone, and tracked it to a used technology vending machine (that’s a thing, I guess) next to the facility he was held in. So some ICE Ape stole his phone, and sold it to whoever stocks that machine. When I read it, I wondered if all the other tech in the machine was stolen from detainees by ICE Apes. Sounds like a side hustle by someone in authority. Got a phone from somewhere? “Go talk to Carl, he’ll buy it.”
I can just hear these motherfuckers saying “So what? It’s not like they’re going to need it in CECOT.”