Has ICE Debuted New ‘No Lying’ Policy?

Yesterday, one of ICE and the White House’s victim award cases exploded. We’ve seen a version of this happen before. The story is being pushed to Fox. The accusations follow. But as the case began to make its way through the courts, it collapsed and the charges were more or less quietly dropped. We’ve seen a huge number of cases where it’s clear that what ICE agents said simply wasn’t true. I don’t even need to tell you about some of the more obscure ones. Although they weren’t charged since the alleged attackers were already dead, you can see the pattern in the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. First, the story was that protesters were trying to kill ICE agents and the agents barely made it out alive. Then we see the video and none of it is true. The bottom line, however, is that in cases where charges have been filed, there is always no wrong or wrong. Turns out the ICE agents’ claims were false, but that’s on to the next wild spree. There are no consequences. Not for the original behavior. Not for lying about it.

But yesterday something different happened. The DOJ went to court and requested that a series of charges be dismissed with prejudice, meaning they could no longer be filed. And the reason was this sentence that had been running through my head for 24 hours. “The newly discovered evidence in this case is materially inconsistent with the allegations contained in the complaint affidavit. »