Fmr. ICE Director: Lawmakers Painting ICE as Gestapo Gives People the Okay to Think They Don’t Have to Follow Their Orders

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TORRES: "I mean, we’ve talked about this too, especially in light of the increased attacks against ICE agents over the past year, year and a half actually now, and so the information out there, there’s been so many people talking about how ICE is the Gestapo, how ICE are just jackbooted thugs and Nazis, and so the way that many people, all the way to the highest levels of government, have been criticizing ICE and painting the picture that they're not necessarily law enforcement, it gives people the okay to think, 'Well,, this is ICE. We don’t have to follow those authorities. We don’t have to open doors. We don’t have the stop vehicles.' And that really creates a very dangerous situation when it comes to traffic stops. And so the misinformation as you see, you know, traffic stops happen every single day, whether it's a state police or police officer pulling you over for traffic violation, but in some instances they're being used to make arrests and the safest thing for everyone is to obey and follow the instructions of the officer that's talking to you."