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A recent incident caught on video underscores the problems with "cross-deputization" of agents from varied agencies in immigration enforcement, an attorney says.
The video shows an apparent immigrant detainee, his hands cuffed, fleeing into a Salt Lake City street outside a Home Depot.
The action was handled by border patrol agents, attorney Adam Crayk said, not Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
SALT LAKE CITY — An immigrant enforcement action caught on video this week outside a Salt Lake City Home Depot highlights what one immigration attorney views as the problematic "cross-deputization" of officials from varying federal agencies to assist in detaining immigrants.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the U.S. Department