What Body Cam Footage Reveals About ICE’s Tactics

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Many Latinos have begun carrying ID with them at all times. But as Juanita Avila and Javier Ramirez will tell you, sometimes it doesn’t matter. ICE and Border Patrol officers stopped them — seemingly on the basis of their skin color — and shoved them to the ground without offering them a chance to show ID. Times Opinion gained access to a rare glimpse of ICE on patrol, reviewing 50 hours of body camera footage from a single night in Nashville. It was first made public through Lighthouse Reports. The footage reveals a pattern of overt racial profiling that’s been approved by an unusual source: the Supreme Court. The court has banned the consideration of race in college admissions and many other parts of American life, but last year it gave ICE a green light to stop people based on their appearance or accent. This video shows the alarming results.