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Directorate of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
The footage circulating that appears to show kicking, spitting on and damaging a federal vehicle 11 days before he was shot has been widely reported as authentic by multiple outlets and confirmed as d...
Yes: within the and its agents exercise law‑enforcement authorities—yet it is not the same as local police in mission, jurisdiction, oversight, or routine public functions, and those differences shape...
A officer sustained a severe finger injury that federal officials say was caused by of the digit during chaotic protests in on January 24, 2026, and the publicly posted graphic photos connected to the...
Yes: under U.S. law ICE is a federal law enforcement agency and many ICE personnel are sworn federal law enforcement officers with statutory authorities; however, ICE officers are not the same as loca...
ICE agents do receive formal training: recent reporting and fact checks in 2025 confirm multi-week programs at FLETC and ICE-run field training that cover law enforcement tradecraft, immigration law, ...
The United States seized a sanctioned oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast in early December 2025, an action Washington says targeted a vessel used to move sanctioned Venezuelan and Iranian crude; Venezue...
operates an Embassy Branch in as part of its presence abroad, a footprint the agency says is meant to fight and threats before they reach . That posture has generated both formal security partnerships...
The pathway to become an ICE special agent in 2025 requires meeting a mix of statutory, medical/fitness, vetting, and application-timing rules: candidates must generally be U.S. citizens, pass a backg...
The preponderance of contemporaneous reporting and court filings says yes: a officer suffered that investigators allege was bitten off during the chaotic protests in , and federal prosecutors charged ...
U.S. authorities executed a federal seizure warrant to take control of a crude oil tanker believed to have been used to move sanctioned oil between Venezuela and Iran; Attorney General Pam Bondi said ...
ICE arrest totals for calendar 2025 vary by dataset and definition, but major compilations assembled from ICE releases and FOIA disclosures place the agency’s arrests in the low hundreds of thousands ...
ICE does not operate a single, agency-wide uniform; enforcement teams frequently adopt tactical or plainclothes approaches while specialized units have written uniform standards, detention staff and a...
The United States and Canada routinely conduct integrated, cross-border law enforcement operations under formal frameworks that permit designated officers from one country to operate in the other’s te...
and its units regularly publicize discrete recovery operations—reporting specific recovered-child counts for those operations—but there is no single, verifiable nationwide total in the public record p...
ICE does not conduct random, door‑to‑door sweeps of the general public as a routine enforcement practice; instead, federal records and reporting describe targeted enforcement operations and investigat...
agent is a multi-step federal : applicants apply via or ICE’s portal, complete written and physical assessments, pass extensive background checks, and attend agency training before being sworn in . Th...
Available reporting shows /Homeland Security Investigations () does investigate and dismantle trafficking rings and has publicized individual rescues and reunifications, but independent, verifiable ev...
Multiple past inquiries and reviews into allegations about Representative Ilhan Omar are described in the available sources: the FBI and the House Ethics Committee have reviewed immigration‑related ru...
and its Homeland Security Investigations () routinely report rescues and identifications of child victims in discrete operations, but the agency does not publish a single, consistently updated aggrega...
ICE’s workforce counts vary by source because agencies and analysts use different definitions (total employees, law enforcement personnel, directorate staff, authorized vs. filled positions). Most rec...