Julia Ainsley

And even though ICE is now the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the entire country, not a dollar of that money went toward accountability.

So there are really two ends of the spectrum when it comes to how ICE trains its officers and what they're allowed to do.

On one end, you have what would be outside of the scope of duties.

Say an ICE officer starts a bar fight while on duty and somebody gets hurt.

That's outside of their scope of what they're supposed to do as a federal officer.

And so the federal government wouldn't even protect that officer in a court of law to defend those actions.

Then on the far other end, you have best practices.

What I do hear from DHS officials who are looking at this video, they say it was not within the best practices to step in front of the car.

And you see that this officer walks around the car and makes the choice to come back in front of it.

And we didn't see that in the first video, but now we see a much longer interaction where he's really walking around the car.

And that was his choice to cross in front of her.

And so that would be against the best practices.

There is an office that was with Inside ICE that would do more of these investigations into officer conduct that has been eroded under this administration.

You also see weakened inspector generals throughout the entire federal government.

Doge took really a sledgehammer across the federal government, but DHS was not a place where they were especially heavy-handed.

And a lot of the cuts that happened at DHS had more to do with cutting out areas that were not in line with the administration's priorities.

So, for example, you saw...

A lot of asylum officers, people who approved asylum applications, be taken out.

You saw the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office, the reviews whether or not immigrants' civil rights and civil liberties have been violated while they're in ICE detention or while they're being arrested, anywhere during the process.

That office, I've heard the term gutted.