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The legal authority and practices of ICE agents compared to local police, including their powers, accountability, and use of force.
Yes: under U.S. law ICE is a federal law enforcement agency and many ICE personnel are sworn federal law enforcement officers with statutory authorities; however, ICE officers are not the same as loca...
ICE agents are federal law-enforcement officers empowered by federal statutes to investigate, arrest, detain and remove people for immigration-related violations, while local police derive authority f...
Yes: officers who work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are federal law enforcement officers because ICE is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its sworn enforcement ...