New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander has told Newsweek that ICE agents expressed feeling “overworked” shortly after detaining him at a downtown court earlier this week.
“I talked to the ICE agents afterward, and it’s clear to me they are being overworked,” Lander said in an interview on June 19.
“I asked what their shifts were. And they say, we really don’t have shifts anymore,” he added.
Poor crybabies should get respectable jobs.
Lander and other critics called the arrest further evidence of what they described as a drift toward authoritarianism by the Trump administration.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Newsweek: “Like many Democrat politicians before him, Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander seems to think obstructing federal law enforcement is his ticket to fame. Unfortunately, it’s just his ticket to being arrested.”
More often than not, these bogus “obstructing” charges are dropped. They are nothing more than harassment.
In response for comment to the suggestion ICE agents are being overworked, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin: “Under Secretary [Bimbo #2] Noem, we are delivering on President Trump’s and the American people’s mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens to make America safe.”
Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true. Arresting and deporting non-criminal aliens does nothing to make America safe.
