ICE collected tens of thousands of dollars in union dues from employees even after the agency had helped to kill off the union, according to a new complaint demanding that Uncle Sam pay back the money it took.
Sage Collins, a deportation officer at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said he was a union member up until Aug. 11, when the union was disbanded with the consent of ICE. But the agency continued to withhold union dues from his next paycheck.
ICE then turned the money over to the American Federation of Government Employees, the very union that had colluded with ICE to revoke union protection for ICE officers, Mr.