Last evening, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided homes and businesses.  While they didn’t release any information, ICE denied reports they were detaining 100 people. Their official spokesperson admitted the raids happened, but insisted they only targeted “individuals who pose a risk to our communities.”

They admitted today that this wasn’t true.

Advocates and lawyers said that ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations agents detained 134 immigrants at their workplaces and homes in a series of raids. They said that some people were picked up as “collateral arrest” after they opened their doors to agents who were not there to specifically arrest them. ICE agents allegedly requested to see identification from everyone and took in family members who were undocumented. (emphasis added).
— Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress.org

Targeting a location and grabbing anyone they find there is called a sweep. Lying about that publicly is called….

Well, a lie. Will anyone be sanctioned for lying to us about our government’s actions?