You must not be from around here. They are an untrained, reckless agency that violates the law left and right, entering homes without judicial warrants, ignoring the Constitution, and detaining or harming U.S. citizens. Their tactics are completely cruel. It blows my mind that I still find people who think they only detain 'illegal aliens.' They are trained to detain even those who are here legally and processing their papers the correct way, often waiting for them right outside the courts.
Police are responsible for violations of the law, not immigration. This also requires due process.
And frankly, the per capita rates for crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants is much lower than for citizens. If these violations and murders are what we really care about, we should have an armed enforcement groups that only focuses on citizens.
But if that sounds absurd to you, then you’re starting to get it.
As far as I understand it immigration violations fall under federal law which is not the responsibility of the police but of federal authorities like the FBI and, yes, ICE? Soon to be renamed NICE from what I've read with the 'N' standing for 'National' which would make for quite some word play in times ahead like 'watch out, NICE agents on their way'.
It's like a game to be the shittiest of the shittiest gov't official playing around with technology to surveillance state (and they never ever just do the right thing, they go all out on breaking the law because technology is fun)