'They're actually resorting to violence and terroristic threats and they should be arrested for that,' John Torres said. 'They should be arrested.'
John Torres, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, called recent attacks on the agency he formerly supervised"disgusting" and"potentially terroristic threats."on Thursday, Torres lamented the fact that ICE and ICE agents were getting so much negative attention from Democratic lawmakers and the public.
A protest sign is seen taped to the the Metropolitan Detention Center prison as mass arrests by federal immigration authorities ordered by the Trump administration were set to begin in major cities across the nation on July 14 in Los Angeles, California"It's horrific. It's disgusting. It's borderline criminal harassment, actually potentially terroristic threats," the former ICE chief said."We're not talking about peaceful protests here.
Although conditions in the facilities are believed to be worse under Trump, the detention centers wereby activists and rights groups during Obama's tenure as well.
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