Democrats push for body cameras on all immigration, border cops

Published February 7, 2019 5:01pm ET



House Democrats are renewing a push to require the country’s 80,000 federal immigration and border employees to wear body cameras while on the job.

Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., on Wednesday reintroduced a 2017 bill that would mandate the 60,000 employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and 20,000 within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to record their interactions with people.

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