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The use-of-force policies of ICE, which differ from those of the Justice Department agencies.
When ICE orders a person to get out of a car, whether there is a legal obligation to comply depends on the lawfulness of the stop and the specific circumstances: ICE may lawfully order occupants out i...
State and local police departments largely prohibit firing at moving vehicles except when a driver presents an imminent threat beyond the vehicle itself, language mirrored in Department of Justice gui...
Proving or disproving that a vehicle was being used as a weapon hinges on contemporaneous evidence of imminence, officer perception, and alternatives—video, witness statements, forensic reconstruction...
Federal immigration agencies operate under layered but limited oversight: internal DHS and ICE use-of-force policies and administrative review, possible DOJ criminal referrals, and investigations by t...
State prosecutors have at times moved to charge federal agents for deadly or abusive conduct, but those efforts collide with constitutional, procedural and evidentiary walls—most notably Supremacy Cla...
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...
A dramatic hiring surge under the Trump administration rapidly reshaped ICE’s enforcement ranks—doubling the agency’s size within months and pulling personnel from other federal law enforcement bodies...
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency within the Department of Homeland Security with two main operational law‑enforcement components — Homeland S...