ICE Mistakenly Detains U.S. Marshals Deputy Who ‘Fit The General Description' Of Intended Person
Immigration agents briefly detained a U.S. Marshals Service deputy last month as he was entering a federal building that houses the immigration court in Tucson, Arizona.
The Marshals Service — an agency in charge of enforcing the law in federal courts, protecting judges and apprehending fugitives — confirmed with the Arizona Daily Star on Thursday that a deputy 'who fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE was briefly detained at a federal building in Tucson after entering the lobby of the building.'
Immigration and Customs Enforecement officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost.
'The Deputy US Marshal's identity was quickly confirmed by other law enforcement officers, and he exited the building without incident,' the Marshals Service told the Arizona Daily Star
It's unclear what the Marshals Service meant when it said the deputy 'fit the general description' of a person being sought by ICE. However, President Donald Trump's policy of aggressive mass deportation has raised concerns about racial profiling. Legal residents and U.S. citizens, including Native Americans, all have been stopped by ICE.
And prior to Trump's current presidential term, a 2022 report from the American Civil Liberties Union shed light on racial profiling that it called 'endemic' to an ICE program that allows state and local law enforcement to perform certain immigration enforcement duties.
Earlier this year, Jensy Machado, a Northern Virginia man who voted for Trump, was handcuffed by ICE agents. A spokesperson for ICE said Machado 'matched the description of the subject of an operation.' Machado is now reconsidering his vote for the president and said ICE agents are 'just following Hispanic people.'
Last week, Axios reported on a meeting between two top Trump administration officials, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, where they discussed a goal of arresting 3,000 people a day.
Noah Schramm of the ACLU of Arizona told the Arizona Daily Star that while there's little information about the incident involving the deputy, arrest quotas from the Trump administration are leading to more mistakes.
'It is not surprising that there would be these cases that the wrong person is detained,' Schramm said. 'I think it reflects that they are trying to get numbers and that they are OK violating basic principles and basic procedures that are meant to protect people and make sure the wrong people don't get picked up.'
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