Dem NM D.A.: I’ll Arrest ICE Agents for False Detention and Hold Illegals Committing Violent Felonies Accountable

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Story Is,” Bernalillo County District Attorney and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sam Bregman discussed his threat to arrest ICE agents in the county and said that “if someone commits a violent felony in our county, we’re going to prosecute them, regardless of their legal status. We’re going to absolutely do everything we can to hold them accountable. At the same token, ICE agents aren’t going to come in and start committing crimes in our county.”

Bregman said if an ICE agent detains someone with “no warrant, no reasonable suspicion, no probable cause, therefore, you cannot involuntarily restrain someone, which means you’re committing a crime of false imprisonment. I absolutely will prosecute.”

Later, he added, “ICE has some footprint in New Mexico, like