A retired Wisconsin State Trooper, told me that on occasions, illegal’s would be picked up, turned over to ICE, and then witness the ICE agents release the individual instead of processing them for deportation.
Tell me again how ICE is SUPPOSED to operate versus how they actually DO operate.
What your acquaintance in local law enforcement was doing was cleaning out a problem from his community. He probably didn't turn over every illegal he ran into, but repeat customers got turned over to ICE.
ICE policy in some of their operations was already messed up. I had a friend that worked criminal alien enforcement in LA. They rounded up Mexican gang members all day, but they weren't allowed to touch the rest of the family, even if they were illegal. If I was setting the policy we would round up the entire family and deport them. Raise a gangbanger, get deported.