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Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions Have Been Lying About Northern California ICE Raids and an ICE Spokesman Just Resigned Over It

Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions Have Been Lying About Northern California ICE Raids and an ICE Spokesman Just Resigned Over It
U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R) attend a panel discussion on an opioid and drug abuse in the Roosevelt Room of the White House March 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

They went too far even for him.

Amelia Mavis Christnot
By Amelia Mavis ChristnotMar 13, 2018
Amelia Mavis Christnot

Amelia is an Oglala Lakȟóta, Kanien'kehá:ka Haudenosaunee and Metís Navy brat who settled in the wilds of Northern Maine. A member of the Indigenous Journalists Association, she considers herself a proud Maineiac.

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James Schwab Jr. joined the Department of Homeland Security in 2015 to serve as a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco. According to a 2016 profile by his hometown paper, Schwab loved his job. But now he's unemployed.

“I just couldn’t bear the burden — continuing on as a representative of the agency and charged with upholding integrity, knowing that information was false,” Schwab told CNN.

Schwab resigned over what he characterized as “false” and “misleading” statements. He singled out both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and ICE Acting Director Thomas D. Homan.
“I quit because I didn’t want to perpetuate misleading facts. I asked them to change the information. I told them that the information was wrong, they asked me to deflect, and I didn’t agree with that. Then I took some time and I quit.”

Schwab's resignation came about due to statements by Homan and Sessions. Both federal government officials claimed hundreds of “criminal aliens” evaded ICE in February because Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned them in advance. Schwab said he resisted that false characterization, but said ICE instructed him to “deflect” any media questions requesting facts.

President Donald Trump, ICE officials and Attorney General Jeff Sessions all criticized Democratic mayor Schaaf to the media for alerting immigrants about the raid. The raid netted 232 suspected undocumented immigrants.

 In an official statement, Trump's unconfirmed acting ICE director, Homan, stated  “864 criminal aliens and public safety threats remain at large in the community, and I have to believe that some of them were able to elude us thanks to the mayor’s irresponsible decision. Unlike the politicians who attempt to undermine ICE’s critical mission, our officers will continue to fulfill their sworn duty to protect public safety.”
 “Those are 800 wanted criminals that are now at large in that community," said AG Sessions in Sacramento last week. "800 wanted criminals that ICE will now have to pursue with more difficulty in more dangerous situations, all because of one mayor’s irresponsible action.”
 Schwab maintains both the number of potential arrests and blaming Oakland's Democratic mayor is inaccurate at best, outright lies at worst.
 “I didn’t feel like fabricating the truth to defend ourselves against her actions was the way to go about it," Schwab said. "We were never going to pick up that many people. To say that 100 percent are dangerous criminals on the street, or that those people weren’t picked up because of the misguided actions of the mayor, is just wrong.”

President Trump called Schaaf a "disgrace" during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Trump claimed ICE prepared to arrest “close to 1,000 people,” but only got “a fraction” of that thanks to the Democratic mayor of Oakland.
But Schwab said ICE never arrests 100 percent of their targets in any operation. The president, Sessions, and ICE officials' claims otherwise create a very misleading picture.
The missed arrests in the recent Northern California operation were far from unusual. The operation originally expected to arrest less than 232 suspected undocumented immigrants, making the outcome more successful than planned, not less like the Trump administration claims.

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