Of course it has been weaponized, that's the whole point of ICE, why else did Obama massively extend family detention leading to thousands of incarcerated children and an expansion of detention camps? It's a weapon against people that don't have documentation

https://www.aila.org/library/detention

https://www.npr.org/2014/06/23/324857970/child-detention-centers-a-headache-for-the-obama-administration