> So someone can act unethically, reap the benefits of it, be caught red-handed, and suffer no consequences.

> Sounds like a loophole in the justice system to me.

No, it's the fundamental distinction between what is illegal and what is unethical, which is a bit more than a “loophole”.

It may be that it should be illegal for ICE to ask for certain information outside of the circumstances where it has a warrant, and this may be in that category. Or perhaps ICE should be legally prohibited from asking without a warrant when there is, as here, a state law prohibition on the person they ask giving them the information.

Or maybe the law should just disband ICE.

But none of that is the law now.

The parent is not claiming that it's illegal, just that it ought to be. I was the one who was suggesting (wrongly, apparently) that it might be illegal.