Legislation introduced by Senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego looks to create accountability measures for ICE agents.
The bill comes amid a broader discussion in Congress about how ICE operates and what oversight mechanisms exist to monitor it. Four people have been wounded or killed in ICE shootings across the county this month — including US citizen Renee Good, who died in Minneapolis after an ICE agent shot into her car’s front window.
Gallego and Kelly’s legislation — called the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act — calls for a clear use-of-force standard that limits deadly force and the use of firearms. It would also require agents to wear body cameras and curtail the use of masks.
A Customs and Border Protection policy enacted under the Biden administration required the use of body cameras for Border Patrol agents in Arizona and some other states. A House bill requiring their use of both for border and immigration agents was introduced in 2021, but never progressed.
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New research shows the ancient site is much older than previously thought. In fact, it’s now confirmed to be the oldest known scientifically dated geoglyph in the Americas, 2,000 years older than the first Pyramids built in Egypt. -
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls. -
Ahmed Soliman has no ties to Equatorial Guinea. The 30-year-old man was born in Egypt and brought to the United States. when he was just 4 years old. He grew up in Phoenix. Now he’s believed to be in a hospital in the African nation. -
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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The relationship between Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller and the Board of Supervisors has been rocky since a legal fight started over Miller unilaterally signing up to work with ICE.
