There are eight practices and behaviors of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that can endanger immigrants during operations carried out nationwide: 1) abuse of authority; 2) failures in officer background checks; 3) domestic violence; 4) sexual predation; 5) agents operating without background checks, without training, without accountability; 6) misogyny as a culture; 7) racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and 8) the use of criminal tactics.

This is revealed by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance in its report “They walk among us: list of 59 ICE and Border Patrol agents who committed sexual and physical abuse,” which carries out an analysis of sexual and violent crimes perpetrated by agents, who mainly abused women and children.

"We know that ICE and Border Patrol agents have an alarming history of sexual and violent abuse against women and children, including members of their own families. They should not be given weapons or free rein to roam American communities," warned Lynn Tramonte, executive director of the Alliance and author of this report. "[The officers' job] is to enforce civil laws, but they act like they live in the Old West and are killing people on our streets. Congress needs to stop giving these agencies carte blanche and start imposing order and holding them accountable."

The report documents 59 cases of violent and/or sexual criminal acts committed by employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency that defends officers, instead of investigating the allegations.

The Alliance warns that DHS has “further relaxed agent selection, hiring, and training standards,” impeding accountability, allowing officers to engage in “dangerous tactics” in civil immigration enforcement.

The report cites that in February 2026, Ryan Schwank, a former ICE attorney responsible for training officers, testified that the program is “flawed, flawed and broken.”

"On my first day, I received secret orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. Over the past five months, I watched as ICE dismantled the training program, cutting 240 hours of vital classes from a 584-hour program," he warned.

Despite such alerts, DHS has continued to hire officers without even reviewing their criminal records.

“Several individuals on the list have documented histories of criminal, dangerous and predatory behavior that should have disqualified them from any position in law enforcement,” the report states. "However, they were hired by DHS. Perhaps most ironically, Brashad Johnson, the person in charge of conducting background checks on DHS employees, was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor."

Recommendations to improve ICE

The report makes three specific recommendations to reduce agent abuses, such as freezing budgets, implementing real investigation and accountability measures, and operating under a system that operates in a civilized manner.

“Congress should create an immigration enforcement system that functions like any other area of ​​civil law,” the agency says. "Officers should not be able to carry weapons, wear disguises, or make arrests on the street. They should perform their duties in office buildings. The law should include mechanisms for people to comply with the law after a violation is detected, rather than having a single predetermined consequence: deportation. No one should be imprisoned due to a civil legal process."

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