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ICE Lawyer Finds A Way To Profit Off Of ICE Detainees

Sometimes it's unclear how this country could get any worse.

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It’s hard for me to imagine a more sympathetic group of people in America right now that people who have been detained by ICE. Obviously, having sympathy for a group of people caught up by a jingoist administration counts as a politically controversial opinion these days. But I see people with the government’s jackboot on their neck, and my heart bleeds for them.

Lawyers, generally, have shown their true character by helping these people. And there turns out to be tons and tons of decent human beings with legal training, willing to help. But ICE employs lawyers too. I’d like to think that the lawyers working for ICE are also just dedicated public servants and not despicable men and women who have been unleashed to bully the weak and afraid. But man, they make it hard to see how there can be “good people” on “both sides” of this particular legal divide. And that’s when ICE lawyers are behaving legally.

I don’t even know what to say about this guy. From CNN:

The chief counsel for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Seattle field office was charged with stealing the identities of seven people who were involved in immigration proceedings, according to court documents.

Raphael A. Sanchez allegedly devised a plan to defraud several financial institutions by using their identities to obtain money and property over a four-year period between October 2013 to October 2017, according to the court documents filed Monday in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington.

He allegedly used “personally identifying information of seven aliens in various stages of immigration proceedings… to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses,” according to the document.

Gross.

What can I say — if you are an attorney working for ICE, I judge you. I stain you with the rebuttable presumption that you are a bad person. I want you to be more like Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts who quit the agency, then who you seem to be.

Seattle ICE attorney charged with stealing immigrants’ identities [CNN]

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Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.

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