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Yes — immigration agents under ICE and related DHS components fired their weapons and were involved in shootings during the Obama years, but publicly available reporting does not provide a single, ver...
Independent reporting that forced federal disclosure counted involving officers from 2015 through 2021; that dataset spans 26 states and and includes two self-inflicted incidents, but reporters and re...
ICE’s formal firearms and use-of-force policy is set out in Directive 19009.3 and an accompanying 2021 handbook that govern when agents may use force, and DHS-wide guidance amended in 2023 required ag...
There is no single, publicly accessible, government-endorsed “authoritative” list that compiles every shooting by U.S. immigration agents spanning the , , and administrations; instead, scholars, journ...
The Trace/Business Insider collaboration has two related but distinct public datasets: a six‑year, records‑based analysis covering 2015–2021 that found dozens of ICE‑involved shootings, and an ongoing...
Three major investigative projects — ’s 2024 series "Armed and Untouchable," /’ joint reporting in 2024, and subsequent compilations and analyses cited by outlets such as and — have documented use-of-...
Three kinds of outlets—The Trace (a nonprofit gun‑violence newsroom), Newsweek (a national news magazine), and local newsrooms—use distinct definitions, collection methods and story frames when catalo...
ICE recruits receive formal firearms and use-of-force instruction at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and in ICE’s own directives, which emphasize firearms proficiency and define deadly for...
Before 2025 the public record contains only a limited, specific figure for de‑escalation training — a 16‑hour course added in 2023 that includes elements of de‑escalation and tactics — while is repeat...
Since 2018 the official investigative landscape around alleged ICE use-of-force incidents has been a patchwork of federal internal reviews, referrals to local prosecutors, occasional state or federal ...
A formal overhaul of federal use-of-force rules in February 2023 at the Department of Homeland Security prompted corresponding, if opaque, policy moves inside ICE and spurred scrutiny of training and ...
The publicly reported ICE training materials obtained and reviewed by investigative outlets emphasize tactics and decisive use of force while containing little on structured de‑escalation, but the age...