ICE Attorney Adam Boyd Resigns in Protest

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney Adam Boyd resigned last month in protest against its swing from prioritizing national security threats to meeting quotas for deportations.

Boyd said ICE now fast-tracks removals and arrests immigrants where it is easy to find them, such as courthouses, in a quest to hit a target of 3000 arrests per day. The target has repeatedly been attributed in news reports to Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Boyd said due process is being pushed to a back burner, legitimate cases are being displaced in the rush to meet quotas, and ICE raids  such traditionally safe places as churches and schools. He said walking away from his job was a “moral decision.”

He said many others in the ICE legal department feel as he does, but are staying until their student loans are forgiven.

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