Judge Calls for More ICE Agents on Witness Stand: 'Willing To Lie'
Summary
A federal judge in Oregon found that an ICE officer falsified an arrest record about a warrantless immigration arrest. The judge said the case shows why officers should testify under oath when their accounts are disputed and said he would no longer presume that the defendants acted properly.Key Facts
- U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai issued an order enforcing an earlier injunction against DHS and ICE over warrantless immigration arrests in Oregon.
- The injunction requires officers to assess whether a person is likely to flee before they can obtain a warrant.
- An ICE officer identified as J.G. testified that he did not know the person named in the arrest report before the vehicle stop and had no warrant for him at that time.
- The arrest report said officers had identified the person before approaching the vehicle and that a supervisor had issued a warrant.
- J.G. said he copied much of the report from another arrest report and failed to correct it; Kasubhai rejected his account as a mistake.
- Kasubhai described the record as intentional, coordinated falsification and said live testimony helped expose the discrepancy.
- The judge said he would no longer apply the presumption that the government defendants had acted properly.
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