ICE has been criticized locally for an ambivalent attitude towards communicating and coordinating with local law enforcement. This incident in Arkansas in which kids were left stranded after a sweep, suggests that it isn't only a local problem.

Sheriff Troy Tucker of Clark County said the immigration officials failed to tell his agency about the raid. If they had, deputies would have made sure the officials knew about the children, some of whom had been in the local public schools for years, he said.

Nobody suggests that ICE doesn't have a tough job. But, as this and other incidents illustrate, institutional arrogance can only make things harder.