US EditionICE ignored increase in use of force reports among its agents: report
Internal emails reveal a 353% rise in ICE use-of-force incidents early in Trump's second term amid expanded enforcement and unclear policies, according to DHS records.
- On March 20, 2025, internal emails show 67 incidents of ICE officers' use of force were reported between Jan. 19 and March 20, 2025, and alerted ICE leadership; the records indicate that number quadrupled from 17 in the same period in 2024.
- Earlier this year, ICE expanded enforcement by hiring more than 12,000 agents and deploying them to at least 15 American cities, with memos endorsing use of I-205 administrative warrants.
- Across California and Massachusetts operations, reports describe ICE agents shattering car windows, deploying chemical agents, and a case where an agent fired multiple rounds into a car, killing a U.S. citizen.
- ICE leadership prioritized prosecutions by focusing on assaults on federal law enforcement officers, with 28 assaults reported and "The email indicated that ICE leadership was keen to prosecute those cases," Politico explained.
- In March 2025, DHS published a body-worn camera plan that remains unpublished and outlines activation, training, and privacy rules, while lawmakers urge cameras after February 2026 CBP footage highlighted accountability.
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Leaked emails reveal ICE knew far more before Minneapolis, and the numbers are too big to ignore
Internal emails have revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership was fully aware of a large rise in agents’ use of force during enforcement operations, months before the fatal shootings in Minneapolis. The emails, sent in February and March 2025, show that senior ICE officials were informed about a sharp increase in reported use-of-force incidents compared to the year before. Use-of-force incidents in early March alone had…
Recent internal documents suggest that Washington was aware of an increased use of force by immigration officers long before the tragic events in Minneapolis. ...
Report: “ICE Officials Knew Use of Force Was Rising Well Before Minneapolis Shootings”
Tuesday, we released a tranche of records obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request and lawsuit to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailing troubling training practices and a sharp escalation in use-of-force incidents by ICE officers soon after President Trump returned to the White House (more on that here). First reported this morning by Politico, the records indicate that top ICE “officials knew as early as March of last year…
Internal emails reveal feds knew violent use of force was taking over their ranks
Leading officials in the Trump administration have been aware of the skyrocketing use of violent force by federal agents, according to newly unearthed emails, with the trend being known well before two U.S. citizens were gunned down in Minnesota.According to a Tuesday report from Politico, the emails were obtained by American Oversight — a "liberal leaning watchdog nonprofit" — using Freedom of Information Act requests. They reveal that instance…
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