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ICE made record monthly arrests in July, but an Afghan detainee's force-feeding during a months-long hunger strike has a doctor calling the practice torture. The agency is rolling out body cameras for all field officers by August, and a Colorado city council is now suing to stop
ICE made record-high arrests in July while simultaneously facing a torture allegation involving an Afghan detainee force-fed through a tube for months during a hunger strike. A physician who examined the detainee called the practice torture. The agency is responding with body cameras for all field officers by August, but that's reactive—it came after the abuse was documented, not before.
The body camera move signals ICE knows it has a credibility problem. You don't suddenly mandate recording of all field operations unless there's pressure to prove your people aren't abusing detainees. The force-feeding case isn't an outlier—it's a marker of what happens when detention authority isn't properly constrained. Coinciding with record arrest numbers, it shows the agency is expanding what it does while simultaneously facing allegations it's doing harm in detention facilities.
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