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ICE and DHS reporting and independent trackers show deportations in 2025 have surged: DHS has announced figures ranging from “more than 400,000” to 527,000 removals in under a year, while the Departme...
Available reporting shows allegations and documented concerns about misconduct by ICE officials ranging from deliberate medical indifference in detention to accusations of physical abuse, shackling an...
Courts and advocates have challenged a wide range of ICE practices as unconstitutional — from warrantless detentions and courthouse arrests to detention conditions, mandatory no‑bond policies, biometr...
Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...
State-by-state ICE arrest rates in 2025 varied sharply: Texas emerges as the epicenter with the highest per‑capita arrest rates in multiple analyses, while some West Coast areas—most notably Northern ...
Multiple high-profile lawsuits and court orders in 2025 allege that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement engaged in discriminatory arrest practices and unlawful detentions, prompting class actions...
There have been multiple lawsuits challenging ICE arrests and detention practices — including class actions over courthouse arrests and suits over unlawful holding conditions — and courts have at time...
ICE and DHS statements claim about 70% of recent ICE arrests are of people “convicted or charged” with crimes and highlight multiple high-profile arrests . Independent data and local reporting show la...
Federal district judges in multiple jurisdictions have issued injunctions pausing or restricting ICE courthouse arrests since 2024, but appellate courts have so far produced a mixed response: some app...
Yes. Multiple class actions have produced settlements or judgments restricting ICE practices alleged to violate the Fourth Amendment — most prominently Gonzalez v. ICE, which resulted in a five‑year c...
You can and people and groups have sued ICE in federal court for unlawful detention, using approaches like class actions, habeas petitions, Fourth Amendment and due-process claims, and Federal Tort Cl...
Federal judges since 2024 have both constrained and scrutinized ICE’s renewed practice of arresting people at immigration courthouses, issuing regional injunctions and detailed rulings that find const...
Sanctuary policies are statistically associated with fewer deportations and lower ICE arrest rates in some jurisdictions—especially arrests originating in local jails—because those policies limit loca...
ICE arrest rates and the proportion of arrestees without U.S. criminal convictions vary sharply by field office and state: some offices (like Dallas) report a majority of arrestees with no convictions...
Fact-checkers and journalists have repeatedly scrutinized Dane Wigington’s public profile and work as the leader of GeoEngineeringWatch.org, noting his background in solar energy and as a former utili...
Arrest rates calculated per 100,000 noncitizen residents are numerically far higher than arrest rates calculated per 100,000 total residents because the noncitizen population is a much smaller denomin...
Federal courts across multiple states imposed meaningful limits on ’s surge of at‑large community and in 2025, issuing injunctions, class findings, and extensions of existing consent decrees that curt...
State and local non-cooperation—commonly called “sanctuary” or restriction policies—have a measurable, if uneven, dampening effect on ICE’s ability to convert local arrests into federal immigration ar...
Local policies that limit jailholds and restrict notifications to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) systematically reduce the number and change the makeup of people ICE arrests: counties that ...
Local jail cooperation policies in 2025 meaningfully shaped where and how ICE carried out arrests: states and counties that require or incentivize collaboration saw higher proportions of jail‑based tr...