The Washington Post reported yesterday about ICE targeting an employee that their Office of Personal Responsibility (OPR, similar to what many agencies call Internal Affairs) evidently thinks leaked documents that showed ICE does in fact have arrest quotas. And OPR is not just going after an employee for blowing the lid off of these unfair quotas, but the only reason they are going after this agent appears to be because both he and the reporter that broke the story (also in the Washington Post) have an Asian last name.
This kind of discrimination is not what we want to see in a premier law enforcement agency. Especially not our agency, which is tasked with enforcing laws that are, by their very nature, inclined to draw racial scrutiny and controversy. No, our agency needs to stand above all others in this department, and yet, once again, they have let us down. When will this stop? When will our agency begin to do the right thing? When will our agency step up and do the job that it is supposed to do, instead of targeting its own employees for speaking the truth?
