from the opacity-uber-alles dept

It wasn’t until after immigration officers started murdering US citizens that the Trump administration finally agreed to do anything about it. First, Trump turfed Kristi Noem , setting her up with a “special envoy” dead end job (which has also now come to an end ). Then it elevated Markwayne Mullin, who first insisted his priority was to tone down things a bit to keep ICE from generating negative press on a daily basis.

Pressure was applied to outfit ICE officers with body cameras. Hilariously, DHS officials claimed there simply wasn’t any money to do this, despite ICE now commanding the most money of any federal law enforcement agency. More money was given to ICE to handle this fake budgetary shortfall, which then led to a lot of things, none of which did much to rein in ICE’s tendency to abuse its power, violate rights, and engage in violence.

First, the rollout was slow-walked. The deadline for deployment kept being pushed back.…