I still believe randomly grabbbing people off the street is a waste of man-hours. The most efficient way to employ ICE manpower and discombobulate the illegals is to permanently PERMANENTLY stake out the "choke points." By that I mean employ a handful of agents to stake out the Municipal/County social services offices (most have them all under one roof), Court Houses (imagine the effect on crime and public order if every illegal hauled in for DUI, public intoxication, etc. got nabbed), DMV's, schools, and of course, Emergency rooms (bye, bye, free ER care).
Any random roundups should be concentrated on day-labor hangouts, shopping centers and bodegas, and of course work sites. Imagine simply stationing a single marked van and a single uniformed ICE agent at the gates of a Tyson's chicken plant two-three days out of the week.
I belive the military calls this "Area Denial"
Do that and you can have a massive effect with a minimum number of both agents and actual detentions. Heck, you could probably clear out LA, the Big Enchilada, with 100 men. I would dearly love to have ICE make a workplace visit to that LA spanish-language radio station that posted the "Los Angeles, Mexico" roadside sign recently.
If they do something like that, rather than just grab a few hundred people in a city over a week's time (who'll then be back a week later, like the gentleman in the article) then moving on, then I'll take them seriously.
Here, all they'd have to do is hit Tyson and Walmart. I see them all the time, cruising around in nice fancy new cars blaring their obnoxious gangster "music." Walmart, at any given time, is packed with pregant Mexicans and their non-English speaking kids. And to add insult to injury, Walmart caters to them big time. It infuriates me.
After that, show up at the large box stores, say early in the a.m. and check everyone's I.D. who is checking in.