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Body camera footage caught ICE agents using anti-immigrant slurs during enforcement, while oversight systems designed to catch detention abuse have collapsed. State ethics commissions are suing to block probation officers from working with ICE, and DHS claimed exemption from norm
Body camera footage captured ICE agents using anti-immigrant slurs during enforcement operations, while at the same time the systems designed to catch detention abuse have basically stopped working. State ethics commissions are now suing to prevent probation officers from working alongside ICE agents, and DHS has claimed exemptions from oversight rules. The picture that emerges is of enforcement happening without real internal checks.
ICE has always operated with less transparency than most law enforcement, but the collapse of oversight mechanisms is a new problem. When body cameras catch abuse and nothing changes, the cameras aren't functioning as accountability—they're just recording what happens anyway. The state ethics commissions suing over coordination suggests the problem extends beyond individual bad actors to how the system as a whole is structured. If oversight really has failed, it means abuse can continue without consequences, which changes what enforcement actually looks like on the ground.
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