As a deportation officer, I managed cases from beginning to end. I took the file when it opened and stayed with it through custody determinations, immigration court, appeals, travel-document requests, and, when it came to that, the flight home.
We worked those cases on the merits and nothing else. Not race. Not nationality. Not religion. Not politics. What did the file say, and what did the law allow?
A rule that exists only on paper is not much of a safeguard.
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Anyone who worked differently answered for it, because immigration enforcement is watched constantly: by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Professional Responsibility, the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, detention inspections, congressional oversight, federal litigation, and a
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