ICE officers reveal arrest quotas, facial recognition use in Oregon dragnet

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https://www.chronline.com/stories/ice-officers-reveal-arrest-quotas-facial-recognition-use-in-oregon-dragnet,392196

ICE officers reveal arrest quotas, facial recognition use in Oregon dragnet

Posted Thursday, December 4, 2025 10:29 am
Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)

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Details of the arrest and tactics used by immigration officers in Oregon — including phone apps to identify faces and the locations where immigrants gather — emerged in a two-day hearing this week in U.S. District Court in Portland.

An ICE supervisor also admitted during the hearing that he has created and signed arrest warrants for individuals shortly after they had been arrested without warrants on multiple occasions, including for the woman in this case.

Immigration lawyers are challenging what they called an “unlawful dragnet” by federal officers in Woodburn, the Oregon city with the highest share of Latino residents at 60%.

The federal agents involved were temporarily assigned to Portland on “Arrest Team 7” for a month, from mid-October to mid-November, and had an unwritten quota to arrest at least eight people a day, one officer testified.

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1. K'n'R

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2. So they fabricate warrants AFTER they arrest people

Lovely.

I believe those warrants are not valid unless signed by a judge as well.