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The use of deadly force by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the differences in policies and accountability compared to local police departments.
Courts apply the same Fourth Amendment “objective reasonableness” test to federal immigration agents as to local police, but recent rulings emphasize evaluating the “totality of circumstances,” which ...
Available reporting does not show any verified, new deaths of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents caused by civilians or undocumented immigrants in the past 12 months, while the year...
Federal immigration agents operate under the same constitutional standard that governs all U.S. law enforcement when it comes to deadly force—that an officer’s actions must be reasonable under the cir...
Independent visual-forensics analysts who studied multiple bystander and agent-recorded videos of the shooting conclude the footage undermines the federal self‑defense narrative — showing the agent wa...
When an ICE agent uses deadly force, the immediate oversight architecture combines Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/ICE internal use-of-force policy reviews with parallel criminal probes by feder...
Federal constitutional law, federal statutes and regulations, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) use-of-force guidance together govern when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers ma...
Federal immigration officers are not free to shoot simply because a vehicle hits or threatens them; DHS and Justice Department guidance permit deadly force only when an officer reasonably believes the...