"As my colleague Caitlin Dickerson explains in her latest story, the president and his advisers have exerted "overwhelming pressure" on immigration enforcement. The White House has "pumped out rhetoric and imagery that celebrates the merciless, military-style pursuit of deportations," she writes. "The overall message to employees, including those who carry weapons, is that anything goes." Last year, the administration effectively kneecapped three offices meant to protect the public from misconduct: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,"
"the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, and the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. Good's killing is now being handled exclusively by Kash Patel's FBI, and local investigators have been barred from accessing evidence."
"Formally and informally, since Donald Trump took office, there's been this push away from transparency and accountability, which is exactly what would discourage an officer in a tense situation, under pressure, from using deadly force."
An ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, in Minneapolis. The shooting is at least the fourth fatality involving immigration-enforcement officers during the president's second term, and two people were also shot during a Border Patrol traffic stop in Portland; their condition is unknown. The president and his advisers have exerted "overwhelming pressure" on immigration enforcement and promoted rhetoric celebrating a merciless, military-style pursuit of deportations, conveying that anything goes to employees who carry weapons. The administration has effectively incapacitated three oversight offices intended to prevent misconduct.
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