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WASHINGTON \u2014 One Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has been referred for discipline over a use of force incident since the beginning of the Trump administration, said Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee after a briefing with ICE officials Wednesday about body cameras, vehicle stops and training.<\/p>\n

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The closed-door briefing for committee members comes in the wake of two shootings in which ICE officers shot and killed two immigrants that they were trying to arrest, raising concerns over the agency\u2019s tactics at a time that it is ratcheting up its arrests.<\/p>\n

The shootings in Maine and Houston over the span of a week have led to fierce criticism that there\u2019s not enough oversight of the agency key to President Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation agenda. At least 10 people have died in encounters with immigration agents since Trump launched the crackdown after retaking office, and in the Maine shooting, family members of the ICE officer who opened fire say he had a history of violent behavior and never should have been given a badge and gun.<\/p>\n

Rep. Seth Magaziner, a Democrat from Rhode Island, said they were told during the briefing that there have been 56 complaints of excessive force against ICE officers; 32 were cleared, and one was referred for disciplinary action. Magaziner said they were told no discipline had yet been handed out. The rest of the incidents are still under investigation, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just defies belief that an agency of 20,000 plus officers with all of the chaos that we\u2019ve seen over the last year and a half through the surges and civilians being injured and killed, that no one would be found to have violated use of force with the exception of possibly one person,\u201d Magaziner said.<\/p>\n

ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment. Department leadership has promised to hold officers responsible found to have violated department policy. But they\u2019ve also defended their officers, saying they are operating in a dangerous environment where they\u2019re constantly being attacked and doxxed.<\/p>\n

The numbers mark an increase since February when then-acting director Todd Lyons said during Senate testimony that ICE had opened 37 investigations for excessive force; 18 of those were closed, 19 were still pending and one referred for \u201cfurther action,\u201d Lyons said.<\/p>\n

The ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said the ICE officials could not discuss the shootings in Maine or Houston, as those are both open investigations. Thompson, who said he came away with more questions than answers from the briefing, said he wanted to know who investigates use of force incidents: \u201cSometimes they said the FBI, sometimes they said HSI. Sometimes they said another entity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The officials said they were going to retrain officers who had gone through a shorter curriculum that was in place last fall, Thompson said. In June, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the agency would be increasing the amount of training for new officers starting this month.<\/p>\n

Thompson said he pressed for answers about how many officers had been brought back for retraining and how they\u2019re being retrained but couldn\u2019t get any clarity.<\/p>\n

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Thompson said he and the committee chair, Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., will follow up with ICE with a list of questions.<\/p>\n

Garbarino said he appreciated ICE briefing the members.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was an important opportunity for Members to receive timely answers on the status of body camera deployment for law enforcement in the field, training and vetting standards and requirements, and current guidance on the use of vehicle stops as part of immigration enforcement,\u201d Garbarino said in a statement.<\/p>\n

When it comes to vehicle stops, Magaziner said they were told that current guidance to ICE officers is to only do them when there\u2019s no other alternative, and they\u2019re supposed to use lights and sirens. But, Magaziner said, that guidance has only been passed along verbally to the staff as opposed to a written directive.<\/p>\n

Both the shootings in Maine and Houston involved shootings of immigrants who were in moving vehicles, raising questions about ICE\u2019s training and policies surrounding how it tries to apprehend people when they\u2019re driving.<\/p>\n

After the Maine killing, Trump administration officials told ICE officers to suspend most vehicle stops. But the next day, Trump announced on social media that he wanted ICE to keep doing them.<\/p>\n

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