# How does --ICE-- select their "people of interest"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 2, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ice-select-their-people-of-interest/1016492 "2025-04-02T04:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ice-select-their-people-of-interest/1016492/1 "2025-04-02T04:00:01Z")
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of transparency on how this agency selects people who they want to arrest or detain. Especially if they’re legal immigrants or ordinary citizens. It appears to be random yet targeted, if you know what I mean. One guy in Berwyn, IL was taken away, and he was just grabbing some pizza. Then six (?) agents came after this college woman outside of her apartment. I’m sure there is some kind of “profile” in addition to being brown and/or an immigrant. Some of these people have no criminal records. With a criminal record I could see how they could easily track certain people. Otherwise, how do they go about this. I know when it comes to ordinary profiling, they look for specific things like out of state plates or expired registration. Even if they are trying to grab any brown person they see, how do they pick one brown person over another? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ice-select-their-people-of-interest/1016492/2 "2025-04-02T10:21:44Z")
> [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](#): > > Even if they are trying to grab any brown person they see, how do they pick one brown person over another? They grab the ones that don’t run fast enough or the ones who think that they are OK because they have not committed any crimes and are are good with them picking up criminals. Not realizing that ICE will magnify minor incidents with the law to justify their deportation. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ice-select-their-people-of-interest/1016492/3 "2025-04-02T10:47:12Z")
They’ve been grabbing Latinos with tattoos. These flimsy requirements have already led to multiple innocent men being detained and deported. Frengel Reyes Mota, who was awaiting an asylum appointment and had no criminal record in Venezuela or the U.S., was [snatched up](https://newrepublic.com/post/193284/ice-deported-man-el-salvador-megaprison-paperwork-error) over multiple administrative errors in his file. And last Tuesday Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, openly bragged that ICE had been picking up multiple innocent migrants in their raids, calling them “[collateral arrests](https://newrepublic.com/post/193142/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-ice-arrests).” > **[Stunning ICE List Reveals Flimsy Way People Are Labeled Gang Members](https://newrepublic.com/post/193373/ice-list-people-deported-gang-members)** > > Here’s the cruel way people are being deported from Trump’s America. > **['Incredible’: Trump admin reportedly deports man over autism awareness tattoo](https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-incredible-trump-admin-reportedly-deports-man-over-autism-awareness-tattoo-235625029616)** > > Mother Jones reporter Noah Lanard spoke with families of those detained in a Salvadorian prison. In one case, the Trump administration accused their loved one of having a gang tattoo. The family says it’s a tattoo for autism awareness. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ice-select-their-people-of-interest/1016492/4 "2025-04-02T11:02:00Z")
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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-ice-select-their-people-of-interest/1016492/5 "2025-04-02T12:33:06Z")
Another case > **[‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US deports makeup artist to El Salvador...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/its-a-tradition-outrage-in-venezuela-as-us-deports-makeup-artist-for-religious-tattoos?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)** > > Andry José Hernández Romero sent to an El Salvador prison after claim ‘crown’ tattoos proved he was a gang member