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What happens<\/span> if officers cross the line? Usually very little.<\/p>\n Paths to suing federal officers are even more limited than for police officers, making it particularly hard for immigrants to hold officers accountable for any misconduct.<\/p>\n \u201cThe deck is stacked against them,\u201d says Fleischaker, the former top ICE official.<\/p>\n Even if a judge decides to award damages, that usually won\u2019t change what happens \u2014 or already happened \u2014 in the separate system of immigration court. Evidence of a violent arrest rarely stops a deportation, and if people have already been deported, it won\u2019t bring them back.<\/p>\n In the instance of the family detained on Mother\u2019s Day, they filed a complaint over \u201cunlawful and excessive\u201d actions \u2014 but the father has already been deported to Mexico. (The government has not responded to the complaint or to ProPublica\u2019s questions about it.) A precursor to a full civil lawsuit, the complaint says their 3-year-old now tells people, \u201cPolice broke the window and threw daddy on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n Settlements in similar cases have been small. A California woman detained by Border Patrol in 2016 after agents broke her car window while her children screamed settled two years later for $25,000.<\/p>\n When we asked the White House detailed questions about the tactic and specific incidents, it stood by officers\u2019 conduct. \u201cProPublica is a left-wing rag that is shamelessly doing the bidding of criminal illegal aliens,\u201d deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson said in a statement. \u201cICE Officers are heroically getting these violent illegal aliens off of American streets with the utmost professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin also defended the tactic in response to questions about Border Patrol. Officers \u201cmay break vehicle windows\u201d if occupants don\u2019t follow their commands, she said. In June, an ICE spokesperson told ProPublica, \u201cOur officers follow their training to use the minimum amount of force necessary to resolve situations in a manner that ensures the success of the operation and prioritizes safety.\u201d<\/p>\n Other agencies whose officers were involved in incidents we documented \u2014 FBI; DEA; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives \u2014 did not respond or declined to comment on specific cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What happens if officers cross the line? Usually very little. Paths to suing federal officers are even more limited than for police officers, making it particularly hard for immigrants to hold officers accountable for any misconduct. \u201cThe deck is stacked against them,\u201d says Fleischaker, the former top ICE official. Even if a judge decides to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[4402,1495,2081,4490,247,7014,2244,4734],"class_list":{"0":"post-13322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-car","10":"tag-immigration","11":"tag-officers","12":"tag-propublica","13":"tag-smash","14":"tag-speed","15":"tag-windows"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}