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Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges. Our reporter spent four years investigating ICE shootings that occurred from 2015 to 2021. Some patterns emerged.

wired.comWhy ICE Can Kill With ImpunityOver the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.

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Federal agent-involved shooting investigations conducted by the Justice Department rarely result in criminal charges, one former federal law enforcement agent says. “The bottom line is that these shooting investigations very rarely find the agent in violation of law or policy.”

wired.comWhy ICE Can Kill With ImpunityOver the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.

15/1/26, 7:48 pm6 reposts19 likes

WIRED

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15 Jan

The self-defense claim ICE, its agents, or their lawyers have made after shootings has historically been proven impossible to refute. And besides self-defense, ICE agents, like all federal agents, are largely protected by qualified immunity.

wired.comWhy ICE Can Kill With ImpunityOver the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.

Noelle

@noellepnw.bsky.social

15 Jan

Wow. I find this very, very troublesome.

WIRED

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15 Jan

“The problem is that these federal shooting investigations often take a long, long time and are rarely publicly reported when they conclude, so the passage of time dampens the public demand for accountability,” the former federal law enforcement agent says. Read more: www.wired.com/story/why-ic...

wired.comWhy ICE Can Kill With ImpunityOver the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.

Matt Seden

@mattseden.bsky.social

15 Jan

Anything changed in the last, I don't know, 12 months or so that might be worth highlighting in this article?

Matt Seden

@mattseden.bsky.social

15 Jan

I get that someone did 4 years of diligent research into ICE with good intentions and it's a bummer that it's no longer relevant to what's happening. But to treat the issue as a continuous one over a decade simply distracts from the unique reality of what's going on at the present moment.

A.C.Lander

@landruc.bsky.social

15 Jan

Sounds like we the people must bring justice.

SLOYCIA85

@sloycia.bsky.social

15 Jan

So they are using the trump plan