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Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges. Our reporter spent four years investigating ICE shootings that occurred from 2015 to 2021. Some patterns emerged.

Federal agent-involved shooting investigations conducted by the Justice Department rarely result in criminal charges, one former federal law enforcement agent says. “The bottom line is that these shooting investigations very rarely find the agent in violation of law or policy.”

The self-defense claim ICE, its agents, or their lawyers have made after shootings has historically been proven impossible to refute. And besides self-defense, ICE agents, like all federal agents, are largely protected by qualified immunity.

Anything changed in the last, I don't know, 12 months or so that might be worth highlighting in this article?

I get that someone did 4 years of diligent research into ICE with good intentions and it's a bummer that it's no longer relevant to what's happening. But to treat the issue as a continuous one over a decade simply distracts from the unique reality of what's going on at the present moment.