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FBI agents were told they would no longer investigate confrontations with ICE

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FBI agents were told they would no longer investigate confrontations with ICE.

Critics worry that removing an outside agency from investigating the incidents could limit scrutiny of law enforcement and public transparency.

The FBI will no longer investigate assault confrontations with ICE agents, according to two people familiar with the directives.

By Michael Kosnar, Julia Ainsley and Raquel Coronell Uribe. July 19, 2026, 5:19 PM EDT. [Body beyond the lede is subscriber-gated; the lede, headline and dek above are the publicly visible text. NBC Nightly News also aired a 56-second segment under the same headline. NBC's attribution is its own ("two people familiar with the directives"), not a citation of The New York Times.]