🍝 SUNDAY SAUCE: WHY CAN'T ICE JUST FIND PEOPLE? "They have a deportation order. Why doesn't ICE just go get them?" Because nobody hands ICE a current address. At the border they give one. Sometimes it's real. Sometimes it's a cousin's couch they leave in a week. Sometimes it's a church, a shelter, or an empty lot. Officers and agents are buried under hundreds of thousands of cases. Nobody has weeks or months to chase one person. When I was running it, no contact meant we moved on and kept hunting for new leads. The best leads sit with local police. Arrests. Addresses. Contacts. But mayors and chiefs stonewall ICE, then walk up to the podium and say "we're protecting the community." Protecting it from who? The federal government? "The community won't trust us if we cooperate." Hellooooo. Nobody trusts the police anymore. You're not protecting the community. You're protecting criminals. @ICEgov @CIS_org @DHSgov @Phase2Deport
— Scott Mechkowski (@ScottMechkowski) November 15, 2026
SUNDAY SAUCE: WHY CAN'T ICE JUST FIND PEOPLE?
"They have a deportation order. Why doesn't ICE just go get them?"
Because nobody hands ICE a current address.
At the border they give one. Sometimes it's real. Sometimes it's a cousin's couch they leave in a week. Sometimes it's a church, a shelter, or an empty lot.
Officers and agents are buried under hundreds of thousands of cases. Nobody has weeks or months to chase one person. When I was running it, no contact meant we moved on and kept hunting for new leads.
The best leads sit with local police. Arrests. Addresses. Contacts. But mayors and chiefs stonewall ICE, then walk up to the podium and say "we're protecting the community."
Protecting it from who? The federal government?
"The community won't trust us if we cooperate."
Hellooooo. Nobody trusts the police anymore.
You're not protecting the community. You're protecting criminals.
