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Rep. Delia Ramirez<\/span> plans to introduce legislation limiting the use of force by law enforcement agents at the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, the Illinois congresswoman shared with The Intercept.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Department of Homeland Security has demonstrated lawlessness. They’re operating unaccountable, they’re violating the Constitution, and they are creating chaos and fear and potential death in every single city that they walk into,\u201d said Ramirez, D-Ill., pointing to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross\u2019s recent killing of Renee Good <\/a>in Minneapolis. At that moment, \u201cso many of us knew that a use of force policy needed to be codified from this body as quickly as possible,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n As it stands, DHS has extremely limited guidelines on the use of force<\/a> and no public reporting requirements for when a federal agent injures or even kills a civilian. In 2023<\/a>, the U.S. Government Accountability Office recommended that the department strengthen its use of force data collection and analysis, but those changes were never implemented.<\/p>\n The new \u201cDHS Use of Force Oversight Act\u201d would require all DHS officers to \u201cuse only the amount of force that is objectively reasonable,\u201d and \u201cattempt to identify themselves and issue a verbal warning to comply\u201d before using force when possible.<\/p>\n The legislation, which has 11 co-sponsors and is co-led by Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-R.I., would also require DHS to collect and maintain consistent data related to the use of force and to publish a report on its website that includes \u201cdata relating to each incident\u201d where force was used by a law enforcement officer or agent with the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n If a DHS agent kills or hospitalizes a person, the department would then be required to brief the House Committee on Homeland Security, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, and the public within 24 hours.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Democrat-led bill has slim odds of passing in the Republican-majority House of Representatives, especially as the Trump administration has wholly endorsed<\/a> ICE violence and expected the GOP to stay in line. Still, Ramirez said, the bill is \u201cthe bare minimum\u201d to curb the department\u2019s violence in the short term, which is why she hopes to get support from both sides of the aisle to act swiftly.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a moral responsibility to use every single tool at our disposal to defend our constituents,\u201d Ramirez said. \u201cThis Use of Force Oversight Act Bill is pretty basic. You can’t stop someone and kill them and then get away with it. Here are the proper protocols and how force is used and how you prioritize the escalation \u2014 that’s not controversial.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n There have been a few recent Democratic legislative pushes to restrain ICE, including a bill from Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., that would require agents to wear scannable QR codes with identifying information <\/a>(as opposed to the regular badges that most police officers wear), and another from Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., to restore ICE funding to its pre-2025 levels<\/a>. But leadership has largely been hesitant to call for abolishing or defunding the agency.<\/p>\n That appears to put the party out of step with voters. Calls for ICE to be abolished and for DHS to be defunded have been gaining support, according to recent polling. One poll <\/a>released by The Economist and YouGov this week found more Americans in favor of abolishing ICE than keeping it.<\/p>\n \u201cThis moment shows us that our constituents are demanding moral courage and moral clarity,\u201d Ramirez said. \u201cIt is our responsibility to represent our constituents \u2026 to fight for every single resource they need to thrive, and to protect them, and uphold the Constitution.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n When Ross<\/a> fatally shot Good<\/a>, a 37-year-old mother of threeacting as a neighborhood observer in Minneapolis last week, the killing sparked massive outrage nationwide.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n