Immigration and Customs Enforcement has kept its use of deadly force secret. Until now.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : DHS updated the use-of-force policy in February 2023 and instructed all of its agencies, including ICE, to do the same.
54% : DHS policy now requires that officers be trained in the use of deadly force at least annually and requires DHS agencies, including ICE, to ensure their officers are proficient in de-escalation tactics and techniques.
53% : The person of interest was not there, but ICE conducted an impromptu arrest of someone else on the scene.
53% : The GAO report, which Goodwin authored, said it had previously recommended that two federal agencies, the Secret Service and ICE, issue updated data-collection policies.
53% : As the GAO was preparing its report, ICE reported that it had implemented a couple of changes to its policies and training curriculum.
51% : With more than 12,000 agents, ICE is one of the largest federal law-enforcement bodies in the country, bigger than any local police department other than the New York City Police Department.
51% : When the immigration officers arrived, Ramos recognized them as ICE and bolted, running around to the street in front of his home.
51% : ICE did later publish the policy document -- with all but two sentences fully redacted.
50% : "In early May, Ramos had another encounter with the Laurel police in which ICE got involved.
47% : Yet many other large law-enforcement agencies have more independent oversight than ICE.
47% : It's handled sometimes by ICE, sometimes by ICE's parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and sometimes primarily by local law enforcement with jurisdiction in the location where an incident took place.
47% : The inspector general found that ICE didn't follow its own protocols in another way.
46% : ICE confirmed that it had created a new policy in 2023 but refused to release it to us, saying the policies had "not been published for public view" but that the policy meets or exceeds DHS policy in all material respects.
45% : ICE said that while no one was struck or injured, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office would investigate.
43% : And if any of the officers who fired their weapons were disciplined, ICE has kept that secret, too.ICE has even refused to release its current use-of-force policy.
42% : Tommy Cox, Laurel's police chief, told us that he was unable to recall whether ICE or MBI ever reached out to interview the officers present the night of the shooting.
41% : "García Ramos, the professor at Ohio State Law, says ICE's aggressive policies enacted under Trump remain today.
41% : The Secret Service complied in February 2023, but ICE still has not.
41% : But Goodwin said ICE didn't provide any substantiation that those changes had been made.
40% : Last year, a federal oversight agency found that ICE had failed to thoroughly documents its use-of-force incidents.
40% : This full list of incidents has never been publicly reported by ICE.
39% : He also said ICE does not comment on investigations or litigation.
38% : At ICE, oversight of misconduct is fragmented.
38% : "Generally speaking, there's a big difference, a huge difference, between what federal law enforcement does and what municipal law enforcement does," he said.ICE has admitted to wrongful use of firearms only once since 2016, after an ICE agent accidentally fired his weapon during an apartment search.
38% : In many ways, the Ramos case illustrates how ICE has never developed a robust system of accountability.
37% : The latter are led by Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE that partners with other law-enforcement agencies to investigate cross-border crimes ranging from drugs and weapons smuggling to financial crimes.
35% : ICE offered inconsistent explanations for the shooting.
27% : Alvarez, the ICE spokesperson, confirmed that ICE is required to notify local law enforcement of any allegations involving potentially criminal behavior, and that ICE and the DHS inspector general cooperate on any local law enforcement investigations.
25% : In 2017, as ICE was enforcing Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies, the DHS inspector general found that the department lacked "policies that emphasize the respect for human life when using force.

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