ICE plans to put electric-shock gloves on officers' hands
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to begin using electric shock gloves designed to cause pain and disrupt a person's ability to react.
The big picture: The gloves could give ICE officers a new way to use force as their tactics face intense scrutiny after several deaths and violent encounters .
Driving the news: ICE plans to spend between $10 and $20 million on the gloves and issue them to Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement Removal Operations officers and agents, per a Department of Homeland Security notice published Monday.
Friction point: Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, ACLU's deputy director on policing, raised concerns about how immigration agents could use the device.
The fine print: The gloves are meant to stop detainees or subjects from "performing coordinated muscle movement" by causing pain through direct skin contact.
Worth noting: ICE is also expanding its use of body cameras after the agency's fatal shootings and other use-of-force incidents.
Zoom out: In the background, millions of people are living in immigration limbo — colliding with the reality of ramped-up enforcement at airports, application interviews and beyond, Axios' Brittany Gibson reports.
Go deeper: Trump deportations cost taxpayers $2,358 each
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