WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) are joining dozens of their Senate colleagues in calling for stronger accountability measures for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. In a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the thirty-nine Senators urge DHS to fulfill its previous commitments to deploy and expand the usage of body-worn cameras, strengthen officer identification requirements and review enforcement protocols.
The measures called for by the Senators are intended to help prevent future deadly encounters involving ICE enforcement officers-and come after two recent fatal shootin...