The New York Times is reporting that various pro-immigrant groups are gearing up for a legal battle against ICE. Apparently (shock of all shocks!) ICE is abusing it’s power while arresting and detaining undocumented immigrants:

At a news conference, Mr. Rodriguez and others said agents had relied on vaguely worded warrants to invade people’s homes and arrest nearly anyone who looked Hispanic. In all, according to the federal agency, 77 illegal immigrants were detained in the operation, and only a handful appear to have been charged with a crime.

In the case involving the accusations of beatings, none of the men have been charged with sex trafficking. Lawyers working with the men said the agents used excessive force: bursting into their home in Homestead about 8:30 p.m., pulling their guns in front of a 4-year-old girl, then forcing all 10 or 11 men inside onto the floor in handcuffs.

No guns or drugs were found. All the men were Guatemalan immigrants, and the advocates said at least six of them arrived at a nearby detention center with bruises and cuts.

The wife of one detainee, the mother of the 4-year-old girl, said she saw agents kick her husband and others while they were on the floor. She declined to give her name because she feared retribution.

The interesting thing to me will be to see how all the anti-immigrant-they-shouldn’t-break-the-law-if-they-don’t-want-to-be-arrested folks will be out in arms to defend these tactics. I guess the government is not required to follow its own rules?