This seems like a very reasonable way to handle it.
Edit: Disclosure: I'm not an American.
The only thing keeping them in check is the courts, and that practically operates in geologic timeframes compared to the rate they are breaking laws.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-...
There are years of precedent and common practice that makes police and police like entities basically unreachable by law. Between qualified immunity, presumption of regularity and generally all the roadblock and convoluted technical rules supreme court placed between possible judgement and police ... courts can do only so much.
Search and Seizure > United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_seizure
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United...
So not citizens’ houses but one where someone is in the country illegally with a final order of removal.
If they find a illegal immigrant on public streets, they can be detained, but still cannot enter a private residence (even if occupied by an illegal immigrant) as it would violate the 4th amendment.
Even an actual judicial arrest warrant doesn't (legally) allow them to enter private party on suspicion that the target might be there. Search is a separate thing from seizure, and you need a judicial search warrant to search a private residence or the non-public areas of a business for a person, no matter what authority you might have to arrest them should you find them.
Criminals are also frequently gullible.
And bail agents are fairly notorious as a group for having a less than scrupulous attention to legal restrictions.
So, a mix of things, really.
And these guys aren't the police.
One single guy. What was he supposed to do after they let him in? Just start asking people about their legal status? I doubt Google has many illegal immigrants working there ... I doubt there's even one.
Then this guy finds them, allegedly, does he just arrests them and take them out the building? All by himself? With all the cameras and phones on the planet recording it? Inside Google, from all places?
It just doesn't make sense.
From the article:
>Google’s top brass—including CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis—have remained silent on Pretti’s killing even inside the company, sources say.
Why would they, though?
But these people allegedly asking for "protection from ICE" at work however are being hyperbolic. Their workplace isn't a place where immigrants are being pursued in the first place, and even if ICE were to come there, they don't have to choose to try to "be a hero" and insert themselves into an arrest that might happen. If they want safety, they can stay at their desks and work. If they're illegally here themselves, they can't expect their employer that they are lying to, to bend over backwards to "protect" them.
Honestly, I think escalating a situation that is not life-or-death, like ICE detaining people they suspect of violating immigration status, to a degree where people can die, is irresponsible. Way more people die from forklift accidents every day than are actually wrongfully deported, yet people are throwing themselves into the path of officers to "defend" random people they almost definitely know less about than the person arresting them does. So far I haven't heard of ICE hurting any actual immigrants in custody, just "heroes" who think they have a duty to "defend." The only logically consistent position with this categorical "defense" stance would be that borders shouldn't exist.