https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180703/11172640167/see-something-say-something-immigrants-continues-to-collect-little-petty-complaints-petty-americans.shtml

The president's new "see something, say something" program isn't about national security, even if he'll claim it is. It's about gathering whatever bits of evidence he can use to shore up his repeated claims about "dangerous" immigrants. The narrative doesn't work without it. Unfortunately, despite the money and manpower being thrown at it, the lack of "bad hombre" data continues to undermine this administration's assertions.

Last year kicked off with a bunch of ICE sweeps. Done in hopes of rustling up enough undocumented hardened criminals, it was a robust failure. Communications obtained from ICE show it inflated the number of "egregious" cases by cannibalizing reports from other jurisdictions, if not travelling back in time to include violators seized during 2016 raids. Even the inflated numbers were underwhelming.