DHS tells officers to use "de-escalation tactics," employ "a verbal warning" instead of force when feasible, and avoid "placing themselves in positions" that trigger the use of deadly force.
The incident raises more questions about federal agents' use-of-force policies and training.
“Any American should be terrified by…such an egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment,” said the arrestee’s attorney.
It is hard to see how, since that question hinges on what happened the morning that an ICE agent shot her.
Every federal circuit court that has considered the issue, including the one covering Florida, has upheld a First Amendment right to monitor and record the police.
Jonathan Ross positioned himself in front of Good's car and continued firing even after he was no longer in its path.
Without any real consequences for copyright infringements, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't have much incentive to follow the law.
The crucial question is whether the agent reasonably believed the driver he killed posed a threat, even if she was not actually trying to run him over.
Plus: Mamdani staffer embroiled in scandal, inside the new food pyramid, Ro Khanna's misstep, and more...
Department of Homeland Security
It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said "videotaping" agents was violence—but Border Patrol brought a film crew to Chicago-area raids.
The justices suggested the president is misinterpreting "the regular forces," a key phrase in the statute on which he is relying.
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
The administration doesn't want to win these cases. It wants to intimidate Americans who oppose its immigration policies.
The proposed bills aim to revive and codify a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that allowed individuals to sue the feds for Fourth Amendment violations.
Most ICE arrestees are nonviolent or have no criminal convictions at all.
A federal lawsuit argues that the agency's policy of perusing travelers' personal data without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment.
But the real goal is to speed up removals, despite ongoing due process violations.
Rev. Stephen Josoma of St. Susanna Parish defended the message against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.
Department of Homeland Security
The party in power changes. The pressure to silence critics doesn’t.
United States District Judge Beryl A. Howell said the Department of Homeland Security’s own statements about its policy and practice reveal an “abandonment of the probable cause standard.”
"Remigration" is meant to soften the real policy goal—forced removal.
ICE and Border Patrol are using license plate cameras for extensive domestic surveillance.
An extensive network of automatic license plate readers is being used to develop predictive intelligence to stop vehicles, violating Americans’ rights.
The ruling comes as federal immigration agents leave Chicago for operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, and New Orleans.
Born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp, Paul John Bojerski’s immigration case highlights the complexities and impracticalities of mass deportations.
The Trump administration’s urban enforcement push is blurring the line between border control and domestic policing.
The order was made after finding that these individuals were arrested without a warrant or probable cause, and in violation of a consent decree.
The First Amendment protects filming the police, but Berenice Garcia-Hernandez says she was dragged out of her car and detained for nearly seven hours for snapping photos of ICE agents.
"She was struggling to breathe," said the father of a 1-year-old exposed to the chemical.
“The evidence has been pretty strong that his facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility,” said U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman. “It has really become a prison.”
The DHS is claiming the right to scan people without their consent—and that's just part of its growing cache of surveillance tools.
Two reports find that the detention system is failing to provide detainees with adequate food, water, and medical care.
To fill the roles, the Trump administration is turning to agents from Customs and Border Protection, the agency that has led aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.
The actions would violate a federal order imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis to limit the use of nonlethal weapons and other crowd control tactics.
The total is over 600 percent more than what the agency spent from January to October 2024.
Without strict oversight, the agency’s new technology threatens Americans’ free speech and privacy.
In case after case, Homeland Security's Public Affairs Office releases incorrect information about arrests carried out by federal immigration officers.
He was transferred to a detention center over 500 miles away from his family.
Meta is the third tech company in two weeks to succumb to DOJ pressure to remove apps and groups used to share information on immigration officer sightings.
After waiting for an hour and a half for her son to be released to her, the boy’s mother was told he was instead transferred to an ICE facility in another state.
The arrest comes less than a day after a federal judge ordered federal law enforcement to stop impeding reporters and protesters.
Oscar Amaya has been held in federal immigration custody for over six months after receiving a final order of removal, raising serious constitutional concerns about how long the government can detain people.
Lawyers at America's largest civil liberties group say the agency’s lack of transparency violates federal disclosure requirements.
This is the second lawsuit in a week challenging the Trump administration's National Guard deployments absent a qualifying emergency.
Judge William Young wrote a book-length order attacking “the problem this President has with the First Amendment.”
“I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction,” says Leo Garcia Venegas, the lead plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice challenging warrantless ICE raids on construction sites.
The Department of Homeland Security will retain 95 percent of its employees if the government shuts down and remain funded in large part by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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