A pissed-off Thomas Homan, mass deportation architect and acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is blaming Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for the fact that his agents weren’t able to arrest more immigrants in a three-day sweep that targeted her city and other areas of Northern California. The day before they began, Schaaf warned immigrant residents that “credible sources” indicated sweeps were likely, and to take precautions to know their rights. “She and Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick discussed the reports before Schaaf concluded that the information was solid enough to warrant going public,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. They were right, and more than 150 were eventually arrested:

As Schaaf decided whether to warn the community Saturday, she said she was thinking of the case of Maria Mendoza-Sanchez, a 46-year-old mother of four and nurse at an Oakland hospital, who, along with her husband, was deported to Mexico after more than 20 years in the United States. Neither she nor her husband had criminal records, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Neither did roughly half of the suspected undocumented immigrants rounded up in ICE’s latest North California operation — which, Schaaf said, is what she had feared. “Maria Mendoza-Sanchez and her husband are an example of a couple that, under the previous administration, were considered low-priority for deportation,” Schaaf said. “And under this administration they were ripped away from their family. I was absolutely thinking of them when I made the decision to share the [ICE enforcement] information. I think it’s my responsibility as a person in power and privilege to share the information I have access to, to make sure people know what their rights are.”

These are the basic rights afforded anyone here, no matter their legal status. Homan doesn’t care. In fact, he’s said he’d “never back down” from his statement that immigrants with no criminal record should be living in perpetual fear, pledging to not only escalate enforcement in California because of the state’s numerous pro-immigrant policies, but promising that those raids would inevitably result in “collateral arrests,” a crass term describing when non-targets are swept up in targeted raids because they happened to be there at the time. Those were the arrests Schaff was trying to prevent, and considering ICE’s record, she likely did prevent many.