Intercept Reviews More Than Two Dozen Incidents of ICE Using Vehicles Against Immigrants and Activists; 2025 CBP Directive Widens Discretion

The Intercept published an investigation on November 2, 2026 reporting that it reviewed more than two dozen incidents of ICE using its army of unmarked cars to attack immigrants and American activists alike. A partially redacted 2025 CBP directive gives officers broader discretion to use offensive driving techniques and ignore traffic laws. The article reports that ICE is instituting additional training including crowd control measures, additional training for high-risk vehicle stops, a live-fire cover course for officer safety, and medical training.

The piece is a synthesis of individual incidents rather than a single event, and the redacted directive itself was not read for this entry. It sits alongside the Houston pursuit that ended with an agent striking a man with a vehicle, 2026-10-10–ice-agent-strikes-miguel-parra-hernandez-with-vehicle-houston-pursuit, and the ICE ERO vehicle-stop memo recorded in 2026-09-30–ice-ero-memo-vehicle-stops-training-pursuit-ban-body-cameras-text-not-public.