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The New York Times wrote an article, Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted which exposes the current purpose of ICE.

… newly available documents show, the agency changed the rules, and the program increasingly went after easier targets. A vast majority of those arrested had no criminal record, and many had no deportation orders against them, either.

The Political Asylum/ Immigration Representation Project (PAIR), is an organization that is dedicated to improving the quality of life for immigrants. Executive Director Sarah Ignatius, wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times and refers to the raids that took place all last year.

This is exactly what we saw in workplace raids around the country last year, raids that focused on immigrants who embody, rather than undermine, core American values like hard work, self-sacrifice and the importance of family values that have defined this country from the beginning.

When Congress allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to ICE for this program, the goal was not to lock up women who scrub toilets in courthouses after 5 p.m.; or cooks and waiters who serve authentic ethnic food; or seamstresses who work double shifts without overtime to turn out high-quality backpacks under government contracts; or meatpackers who work in hazardous conditions. But all these people were targets of ICE enforcement.

Could it be that ICE may have lost sight of their true motives?

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