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ICE personnel will wear body cameras under new DHS directive

Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel will start wearing body cameras during arrests and other agency activities. That’s according to a new directive from the Department of Homeland Security. 

DHS rolled out a body camera policy last May and has conducted pilot programs within its various agencies for the last few years — part of a Biden administration effort to boost transparency and accountability to the public. 

Border Patrol agents are also required to use the cameras during some operations in Arizona and elsewhere. 

DHS says ICE personnel will be required to use the cameras when doing things like serving arrest warrants and removal orders.

Over the next few months, select groups of ICE personnel will begin wearing the cameras. But the agency says there are not currently enough to distribute to all staff.

Alisa Reznick is a senior field correspondent covering stories across southern Arizona and the borderlands for the Tucson bureau of KJZZ's Fronteras Desk.