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The jails are under guidance, at least in MN to scout for this and inform detainees of ICE presence. They are barred from courtrooms regularly. And to put a point on it, your plan is totally inefficient. Most places wont have who your are looking for unless you already know, which you dont because no one is sharing information with you.
3000 agents is still a tiny force. And apprehending fugitives is extremely time intensive.
By way of example:
20 Years. 90 agencies. Barely over 100k arrests. The way modern law enforcement works is largely by normal warrant processes. A guy does a crime. He either goes to court to address it, or he doesn't and a warrant is issued. Then he, being a criminal, does something stupid like blow a red light. He is then arrested and brought to the judge that he skipped court on. That normal process doesn't work for ICE in Minnesota. As a result they have to do GLRFTF level work for every illegal in the state. The GLRFTF does not deploy resources for normal crimes. Its basically only for murder, attempt murder, armed violence, and sex crimes. Everyone else, your retail thieves, your car thieves, simple robbers, drunk drivers, all you gotta do is not violate a traffic law for the duration of the statute of limitations and you can get away with a felony. Now, you, being a felon are unlikely to possess that skill, but you can try!
Minnesota is basically forcing ICE to treat immigration enforcement like other police agencies treat Criminal Sexual Assault, and then also letting people harass them while they try to execute that mission, which with the GLRFTF would typically involve at least 1 team of 2 officers sitting on a location, often multiple teams of 2-3 sitting on multiple locations for multiple days. Which obviously would be frustrated in purpose by people surrounding the police cars and blowing whistles. Not exactly conducive to finding a guy evading arrest. Imagine if every pedophile had a defense force of people at his home, his mom's house, and his sisters house blowing whistles whenever police were there. He's probably not getting arrested anytime soon.
And that is the current situation in Minnesota. Minnesota also should be viewed as both an outlier, and a pilot program. Many states are sanctuary states, but many of them also have police forces in quiet rebellion that actually do let ICE know, just on the down low. But ICE will have to take on California and New Mexico sometime in the future, and it was likely decided to try to figure out what could possibly work in a very leftist state with a very modest goal before going after the big fish.
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