The directive to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, which was first reported by the New York Times, didn’t come down as written orders, two of the ICE officials told The Intercept.

Instead, said one of the ICE officials who works in the Mountain West region, the order came down through field office directors to avoid red tape associated with putting an official policy in place.

Great, so these orders will exist for as long as ICE wants to get friendlier headlines and instantly vanish into thin air the next time one of their agents murders somebody driving a car