House Homeland Security chair Garbarino vows ICE oversight after shootings

Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said his panel is conducting oversight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after its officers fatally shot two individuals over the last week.

Garbarino told The Hill’s Rebecca Beitsch at the second annual Hill Nation Summit that his panel has already reached out to ICE and requested a briefing with the agency next week.

He noted the briefing will not touch on ICE officers fatally shooting one man in Texas and another in Maine earlier this month, as the FBI is investigating both incidents.

But the New York Republican said he wants details on the status of ICE’s implementation of body camera requirements for officers, a program former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged to expand nationwide in February.

In both of the fatal shootings, officers were not wearing body camperas.

While ICE has temporarily paused traffic stops in the wake of the two shootings — both men were in their cars when federal officers shot them — Garbarino said he was “not sure” if the agency should “remove that tool” from its tool bag.

“As long as… those officers are focused on what they told us they were focused on, and they are, I don’t have a problem with them doing traffic stops,” the third-term lawmaker added.

President Trump weighed in on that issue earlier on Wednesday, saying the stops should not end.

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