ICE officers to use body cameras during vehicle stops, Trump ‘border czar’ says

Tom Homan, Trump’s ‘border czar’, speaks to the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington DC on 14 July. Photograph: Graeme Sloan/Pool/Graeme Sloan - Pool/CNP/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Tom Homan, Trump’s ‘border czar’, speaks to the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington DC on 14 July. Photograph: Graeme Sloan/Pool/Graeme Sloan - Pool/CNP/Shutterstock ICE officers to use body cameras during vehicle stops, Trump ‘border czar’ says Tom Homan’s comments come amid scrutiny over federal immigration agents’ fatal shooting of two men in six days US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) will require its officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body camera, said Tom Homan, the Trump administration “border czar”, on Sunday. The action comes as the agency is under renewed scrutiny after ICE officers fatally shot two men earlier this month. “They exonerate more law enforcement than they convict, and I want officers to wear body cameras because I want the American people to see what the ⁠officers saw when they took that action,” Homan said on the Fox & Friends Weekend program. Homan’s comments come after federal ​immigration agents fatally shot two men six days ‌apart during traffic stops in ‌ Texas and Maine earlier this month. There is no body-camera footage from ICE agents involved in those incidents. ‘We just want to be treated like humans’: how a Latino neighborhood is rallying after an ICE shooting Read more In a ‌separate interview on CBS’s Face the Nation show, Homan said money for the cameras was held up during the partial government shutdown earlier this year. “The cameras have been purchased right now,” Homan said. “They’re training the trainer in deploying the cameras nationwide.” The immigration agency’s extreme tactics have once again come under public scrutiny in recent days after an ICE officer on 13 July killed Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a driver from Colombia, in the coastal Maine ‌city of Biddeford, about 15 miles (24km) south of Portland. Six days earlier, another ICE officer in Houston fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national. Salgado, who was not the intended target of the ICE officers, was driving his construction crew to a job site when he was pursued and stopped. Salgado had no criminal history, had lived in the US for 35 years and was close to obtaining legal status, his family has said. Less than a week later, ICE agents shot and killed Durán during another traffic stop. As with Salgado, Durán was not the target of an operation. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed officers feared for their safety. Immigrant rights activists have said Durán was authorized to work in the US and had a social security number. Homan said last week the ​agency would temporarily suspend most vehicle stops around the country to review procedures. Within 24 hours of Homan’s comments, Donald Trump directed federal immigration agents to resume them. The back-t