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The ICE agent involved in the fatal shooting could try to invoke immunity under the Constitution's Supremacy Clause to try to end state criminal prosecution.
Professor Michael Mannheimer (Northern Kentucky University) is the author of an important new article on "Unpacking Supremacy Clause Immunity."
A recent DHS post sparked questions about what kind of immunity ICE officers really have. We asked a Texas law expert it in plain terms.