BOSTON — Rep. Ayanna Pressley is co-sponsoring a bill that would force the Department of Homeland Security to hand over body camera footage, audio recordings, written reports, and disciplinary records any time an ICE or CBP agent is suspected of using excessive force.

The bill, co-sponsored by California Democrat Dave Min, would require DHS to turn over all relevant materials — "in unredacted form to the maximum extent permitted by law" — to Congress within 30 days. It would apply to any shooting involving DHS personnel and any death occurring while in DHS custody, retroactive to January 20, 2025.

"What we cannot do is stand idly by while rogue federal agents, emboldened by the Trump White House, brutalize our communities and cover it up with lies and confusion," Pressley said at a press conference Friday.

Pressley said nothing about the activists. She did not condemn the obstruction. She did not ask how a man wanted for raping a child in El Salvador had been living near a Boston school since 2016. She was too busy demanding the release of a 14-year-old girl detained during a separate Homeland Security criminal investigation in Marlborough — without once mentioning what her father was accused of or why HSI's criminal investigations unit, not routine immigration enforcement, was on the scene.

This is the pattern. When ICE arrests someone, Pressley is there with a press conference. When activists shield a child rapist from arrest, silence.

The bill also seeks to eliminate qualified immunity for federal officials, including ICE officers — a legal protection that shields public officials from civil liability for misconduct. Pressley and Senator Ed Markey previously introduced a separate bill targeting the same protection.

"Both of these bills send a powerful message to everyone in America, citizen or not, that when ICE agents break the law, they should and will be held accountable," Pressley said.

Accountability is an interesting word choice from a congresswoman who has never once demanded accountability for the organized networks in her own district that actively interfere with federal law enforcement operations. Groups like LUCE, the "Immigrant Justice Network of MA," run a hotline that operates as a real-time early warning system for immigrants targeted by ICE. They distribute wallet cards in multiple languages teaching people how to avoid detection. They are fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3), meaning donations are tax-deductible.

Pressley has not called for an investigation into any of them.

The bill cites the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers in Minneapolis as justification. Both were U.S. citizens. Investigations into their deaths were stopped by senior Trump administration officials, according to reports. Twenty-one people have died in ICE custody since October, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association — already surpassing the death count of the previous 12 months.

Earlier this month, a Haitian man who had been living in Dorchester, Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on March 2 after what his family said was an untreated tooth infection that led to sepsis.

These are serious issues. People dying in federal custody deserve scrutiny. Body camera footage in use-of-force cases should be reviewed.

But Pressley isn't filing this bill because she's a dispassionate advocate for government transparency. She's filing it because she's built her entire political identity around opposing immigration enforcement — and this is the next logical step.

She wants ICE agents held accountable. She wants their body cameras reviewed. She wants their qualified immunity stripped.

She just doesn't want anyone asking why the activists in her district spent four weeks protecting a child rapist from the agents she's now trying to defang.

DHS did not return a request for comment.