I remember an incident about 20 years ago, when I went to pay for the fuel I put in my truck at a local gas station. A farm bus had just pulled up, so I found myself in line at the cash register with about 25 Mexican nationals.
An INS agent walked inside, and immediately confronted the only white-skinned person in the line-me! He spoke to me in Spanish, and I answered him in English. He wanted to know where I was born. I told him "Montebello, CA", and he left the building.
I figured he was either new on the job, or too lazy to actually risk having to arrest anyone.
He was probably working under intimidation from some crappy federal court injunction.You wouldn't believe the obstacles that the courts and bureaucrats put in the way of INS agents doing their jobs.I always managed to make plenty of arrests in spite of the commie infestation of the agency.The only times I was threatened with disciplinary action was for doing my job.Since I knew I was on solid ground,I never backed down and never got actually suspended,reprimanded,etc.I never got more than one promotion and I spent my whole career on the bricks where I have to say I was happiest.Picturing myself as a pencil pushing admin turd doesn't compute.I am sorry that you had such an Alice-in-Wonderland experience.