EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence

"The latest enforcement actions in Minnesota have led to federal immigration agents killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Both were engaged in their First Amendment right to observe and record law enforcement when they were killed. And it's only because others similarly exercised their right to record that these killings were documented and widely exposed, countering false narratives the Trump Administration promoted in an attempt to justify the unjustifiable."

"The Trump Administration has made indiscriminate immigration enforcement and mass deportation a key feature of its agenda, with little to no accountability for illegal actions by agents and agency officials. Over the past year, we've seen massive ICE raids in cities from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis. Supercharged by an unprecedented funding increase , immigration enforcement agents haven't been limited to boots on the ground: they've been scanning faces , tracking neighborhood cell phone activity , and amassing surveillance tools to monitor immigrants and U.S. citizens alike."

Since the Department of Homeland Security was created after September 11, ICE and CBP have carried out persistent surveillance and civil liberties violations. Over the past year these agencies escalated enforcement, refusing democratic accountability and enabling mass deportation policies under the Trump Administration. Massive ICE raids occurred in cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Enforcement agents have expanded digital tools—face scanning, neighborhood cell-phone tracking, and other surveillance—beyond traditional operations. Federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti while they observed and recorded law enforcement. A leaked ICE memo reportedly authorizes entries based solely on administrative warrants, raising Fourth Amendment concerns.

Read at Electronic Frontier Foundation