Julia Ainsley is homeland security correspondent for NBC News and covers the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will start wearing body cameras to record their interactions with migrants and the public in five U.S. cities, acting ICE Director P.J. Lechleitner announced on Wednesday. After a six-month pilot program was deemed successful, ICE will start requiring officers working with Homeland Security Investigations as well as those responsible for arresting and deporting migrants to wear cameras on their uniforms in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.
But without more money from Congress, Lechleitner said, ICE will not be able to expand the use of body-worn cameras beyond those five cities. Lechleitner said ICE is facing a budget shortfall unless Congress appropriates more money. The appropriations bill through which the agency is currently funded is set to expire on March 22.
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