US Senate Dems press Mullin to ensure all immigration agents have body cameras

By: Ariana Figueroa

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: July 22, 2026

Words: 526

Last Updated: 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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WASHINGTON — A supermajority of the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus has asked Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to deploy body cameras to all federal immigration officers, following deadly shootings of immigrants in Texas and Maine.

In a July 19 letter addressed to Mullin, 38 Senate Democrats and Maine’s Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, requested information about the shootings this month in Houston of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and in Biddeford, Maine, of …

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