Vice President JD Vance acknowledged at a Michigan town hall that some ICE officers engage in misconduct and stated the Trump administration bears responsibility for investigating and acting on such cases. His comments come amid multiple high-profile incidents involving immigration officers across several states, including fatal shootings and an injury caused by an ICE-driven vehicle.
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On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance told reporters that a portion of federal immigration officers make serious errors on the job, and he indicated the administration bears an obligation to hold those individuals accountable. Vance also recorded a 60-minute town hall with a television news anchor in Michigan, scheduled to broadcast on Saturday.
A Senate contest in Michigan — pitting Republican Mike Rogers against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed — has drawn considerable attention from political observers across the country.
Discussing immigration enforcement, Vance drew a parallel between police officers and ICE personnel, expressing the view that the majority of those working in both roles are dedicated individuals who take pride in serving their country. He added that errors in judgment occur among any group of individuals from time to time.
Vance told the anchor that enforcement operations inevitably involve personnel who make errors, and that accountability through prosecution and investigation follows when that happens. The anchor raised the question of cases where public discussion precedes any formal inquiry, asking Vance to identify the most consequential missteps tied to ICE's immigration enforcement activities.
Vance chose not to name specific incidents, though he told the interviewer that the administration had acted in cases where ICE personnel faced misconduct allegations — sometimes through additional training, sometimes through disciplinary measures — while noting that such matters were generally handled without public announcement, given the administration's view that individuals deserve to go through a proper investigative and legal process before any judgment is rendered. The remarks came as both ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have faced questions over use-of-force practices following the administration's stepped-up immigration enforcement efforts.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens, died after being shot by immigration enforcement personnel during incidents that took place in Minnesota earlier this year. Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who discharged the weapon that killed Good, was removed from active duty and placed on administrative leave in the period following the incident.
During May, New York Governor Kathy Hochul raised the question of whether Ross had been transferred to her state. No information about Ross's workplace was made available by the Department of Homeland Security at that point. Prosecutors have yet to bring charges in either matter. Federal investigators launched a probe into the circumstances surrounding Pretti's shooting at some point during the current year.
Multiple altercations involving immigration officers have been recorded in the course of targeted enforcement operations. Two separate shootings by immigration enforcement officers — one leaving a 25-year-old Colombian man dead inside a vehicle in Maine, another wounding a Venezuelan man with a gunshot to the back in Austin, Texas, in September — have drawn attention to the use of lethal and injurious force during immigration operations.
Gunfire from federal immigration enforcement agents left a man with a neck wound during what authorities characterised as a targeted operation carried out in New York earlier in the month. Agents moved to take Oscar Belgal into custody while a 5-year-old child sat in the back seat of the vehicle. Near Houston, a man sustained injuries after being struck by a vehicle operated by ICE personnel.
Federal ICE agents shot and wounded a 28-year-old Dominican man during an arrest attempt on Marble Hill Avenue in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon. The man, who authorities said had prior criminal convictions, sustained a gunshot wound to the neck and is expected to survive. His five-year-old son, who was in the vehicle, was unharmed. The incident prompted hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators to gather outside the hospital where the man was treated, leading to clashes with police and multiple arrests. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrived at the protest scene and publicly called for an end to ICE operations in the city. The incident is the latest in a series of confrontations involving federal immigration agents across the United States.
