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The potential risks to civil liberties and freedom of speech when designating a domestic organization as a terrorist entity.
in this month involved hundreds of arrests, heightened federal coordination, and at least one deadly confrontation that drew an criminal probe; reporting does not corroborate a separate, large-scale “...
ICE does not issue a single, consistent uniform across the agency; agents can appear in tactical military-style kit, in marked ICE polos or jackets, or in plainclothes with minimal identifiers — and t...
A clear majority of Americans currently view ICE unfavorably: recent national polls show roughly half to a majority disapproving of how the agency operates, and support for protests or abolition has j...
says it has no contract with ICE and does not proactively share customer data with federal agencies without explicit local-customer permission , while has publicly denied any direct partnership with I...
ICE locates and arrests undocumented immigrants through a mix of data-driven identification, criminal-justice referrals, targeted field surveillance and cooperative partnerships with local and federal...
ICE policy and practice in 2025 treats a narrow set of federal and state-issued documents—most centrally the U.S. passport and formal naturalization/citizenship certificates—as the clearest, probative...
Ice and DHS have publicly released counts, named lists and individualized criminal-history summaries as the centerpiece of their communications about Operation Metro Surge — touting thousands of arres...
The claim traces to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s public statements that more than 10,000 “illegal migrants” have been arrested in the Minneapolis area and that thousands amo...
Reporting from multiple outlets shows that ICE is carrying out large, visible enforcement deployments in U.S. cities that mix targeted arrests with aggressive street encounters that can look—and somet...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has publicly documented patterns in DHS and ICE messaging, notably alleging use of far‑right imagery on social media in recruitment and outreach that raise alarm about ...
’s administration carried out large numbers of by shifting enforcement from broad worksite raids toward a prioritized system that emphasized recent border crossers and people with criminal convictions...
ICE’s biggest active contracts for phone‑forensics and related surveillance tools as of early 2026 are concentrated among a handful of specialized firms: Cellebrite (major universal forensic extractio...
President Barack Obama’s administrations carried out roughly 3 million formal removals (deportation orders) between 2009 and 2016, but that headline masks a shifting mix: interior removals were especi...
Homeland Security and spokespeople have reported large aggregate arrest totals for —most prominently counts of roughly 1,500, 2,400 and 3,000 arrests at different moments—but the public record assembl...
Publicly released videos and multiple news analyses do not corroborate federal officials’ assertions that deliberately attempted to run over an agent; footage from the agent’s phone and other clips sh...
The record shows Roll Call Vote 367 was on H.R. 5005, the Homeland Security Act, and the measure passed in the House on July 26, 2002 . The publicly maintained roll‑call databases at the Clerk of the ...
Yes — ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol operate as distinct agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, but they routinely intersect, coordinate and sometimes embed personnel and tactics so that...
The DHS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is the ICE unit charged with investigating serious employee misconduct, including allegations related to extremist ties, but public reporting does n...
ICE’s recent procurement activity shows a sharp intensification in both ambition and vendor concentration compared with prior DHS technology buys: reporting and public records indicate plans to tap do...
Available public reporting and police FOI work does not produce a single, centrally published figure for convictions in 2024 arising from arrests under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and s...