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Civil-liberties groups argue that 287(g) effectively turns local police into ICE agents and creates risks to public safety and individual rights.
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...
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...
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...
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...
is not a single, hierarchical organization with a national leadership, membership rolls, or central funding; mainstream experts and government analyses describe it as a decentralized movement or an id...
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...
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...
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...
’s software has been used by police and intelligence agencies to analyze and fuse disparate data sources and has been deployed in programs that aim to forecast where crimes or who might be involved in...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
’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...
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...
has systematically expanded social media and location surveillance by buying commercial tools, contracting analysts, and integrating datasets to generate enforcement “leads” for arrests and deportatio...
Public reporting and fresh datasets do not yield a single, authoritative nationwide total for “how many people were in this year”; multiple analyses show the phenomenon is large — measured in the tens...
and record by combining self-reported documents, biographic data, and biometric matches into centralized immigration law‑enforcement systems such as the and agency “A‑Files,” and CBP’s operational tab...