I assume they have a squad meeting with today’s targets spelled out. Where does the list of supposed illegals come from?
From the people they pick up, after the fact.
Here in Minneapolis, they went after an old man (a US citizen), broke in the door of his house, cuffed him, wouldn’t allow him to get dressed but hauled him out in shorts & sandals. Said that he was an illegal and a sex offender. (Some of you may have seen video of this.)
He was released later when it was found that the sex offender they wanted was in prison, and had been since 2024. Was also about 20-30 years younger than the citizen they grabbed, and did not have much resemblance to him – except they had the same (ethnic) name.
So it appears some of their ‘leads’ may be just searching online records to find people whose names match. But without cross-checking other info, seems like an error-prone procedure.
If they’re still published (I haven’t gotten one in years), I’d say “the phone book.”