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immigration agents have shot people during the years was president; investigative reporting shows multiple shootings by and its Homeland Security Investigations division occurred in the period covered...
Under the Obama Administration, publicly available reporting in the provided material does not document a formal, widespread ICE policy of using masks during routine operations; former acting ICE dire...
Former ICE acting director John Sandweg, who served under President Obama, says , and multiple recent reports indicate mask-wearing by ICE became prominent in 2025 rather than during the Obama-era rai...
, the public record and insider recollections paint a mixed picture of how personnel dressed: the agency maintained official branded apparel and uniforms for many duties , while critics and some accou...
The available reporting contains no documented ICE policy from the Obama administration that mandated or routinely authorized officers to hide their faces during immigration raids; former acting ICE d...
Obama’s ICE enforcement emphasized targeted removals focused on national-security and serious-crime threats and used prosecutorial discretion to limit interior arrests, reducing interior removals by t...
Available reporting shows the Obama administration directed ICE to prioritize targeted removals — focusing on criminals and national-security threats rather than broad, indiscriminate workplace or str...
ICE’s visible uniform and face-covering practices were not a central, well-documented axis of policy differences between the Bush and Obama administrations; available reporting indicates that Obama-er...
ICE training materials and operational guidance from the Obama-era described a conventional law-enforcement approach to uniforms and identification: recruits were required to wear and maintain officia...
The archival record in the provided reporting shows no clear, publicly available regulation that mandated a single uniform style or specified when agents must display identification; instead, and inte...
There is no evidence in the reporting provided that Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a policy during the Obama administration requiring agents to wear masks during enforcement operations; fo...
became a prominent public issue in 2025 — with reporting and agency statements tying the widespread, high-profile use of face coverings to enforcement operations under — and contemporary sources say t...
The materials provided do not document any shootings by agents that occurred during the Obama presidency; the reporting assembled here instead focuses on shootings in the current () administration, , ...
The supplied reporting does not provide a contemporaneous, sourced list or count of agents during s, so a definitive yes/no cannot be established from these documents alone; the coverage instead empha...
There is no strong evidence in the provided reporting that uniform policies themselves were a major public controversy during the administration; the documented fights of that era centered on enforcem...