ICE Officers Ordered to Wear Body Cameras in Minneapolis

Tuesday, February 03, 2026

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that body cameras would go to ICE agents in Minneapolis and to operatives nationwide when funding is available. Noem said that the move was in the interest of transparency, but there was no mention of having ICE agents remove their masks when conducting operations.

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yes the problem with these murders that were captured on video from 15 different angles, including by the people killed and the people killing them, was that there weren't body cameras.

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"...when funding is available."

On 29 Jan 2026, the New York Times wrote:

"The sweeping domestic policy law that Republicans muscled through Congress last year made ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement.

Republicans allocated $190 billion over four years, with $75 billion specifically for ICE, making it the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency.

Democrats warned that the funding would increase ICE's capabilities without sufficient oversight."

ICE agents are equipped with military-grade weaponry (e.g. assault rifles, firearm silencers. laser finders, night-vision goggles, explosives, and hi-tech Israeli hacking devices, while DHS is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy warehouses to store migrants like so much Amazon merchandise, yet Kristi Noem bleated that body cams will be deployed when "funding becomes available."

There is no "fixing" or "reforming" ICE and DHS other than completely dismantling them. INS can be reconstituted to pre-9/11 conditions and DHS functions can be returned to the FBI, US Postal Inspectors, USCG, the US Treasury and other agencies. Look how quickly the diabolical Trumpf junta destroyed USAID.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-02 10:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Gutless cowards. Just like Jeff!

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-02 10:38 PM | Reply

Lawless government organizations will never utilize any technology that provides data they will certainly have to make efforts to hide from public view.

What will be the contracted design specifications? Will there be mandatory failure rates or sensors that switch off the camera when a crowd control device is removed from its resting position or elbow mounted failsafe buttons that require constant pressure from the hand on the same side of the body as the sensor or a weight bearing sensor that switches off the camera when full weight bearing is detected or will there simply be no "on" button?

#3 | Posted by Hickory at 2026-02-03 10:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

When funding becomes available?

They have more money than most militaries around the world. What more funding do they need?

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-03 10:42 AM | Reply

"when funding is available"

Hahahaha.

Anything and everything for the grift.

Actually deporting people is a secondary goal.

Republicans support it, because they think it owns the libs.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-03 11:42 AM | Reply

"oops i forgot to turn it on. trust me his cell phone looked like a gun"

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-02-03 12:47 PM | Reply