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The use of enforcement sweeps and aggressive patrols by ICE, including the detention of U.S. citizens.
Since January 2025 detention has grown rapidly and shifted geographically: , , , and have been the primary anchors of the expanded system, with Texas—particularly facilities—housing the largest daily ...
Reporting from national and local outlets documents multiple instances in where federal agents deployed chemical irritants during protests, and many stories refer to those officers as “” or “federal i...
There is no single, public federal mandate that uniformly prescribes what ICE officers must wear in every high-risk environment; agency practice varies by unit, mission and local court orders, and has...
detainers are administrative requests from federal asking state or local jails to hold an individual who would otherwise be released so ICE can assume custody; they are typically framed to delay relea...
Yes—ICE, principally through its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) component, conducts undercover operations that have led to the identification and rescue of children from trafficking and sexual...
The historical record shows multiple documented instances where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and related DHS components detained, and in some cases deported, people later determined ...
Independent datasets and academic analyses indicate a sharp increase in arrests, detentions, and removals across 2025 with evidence that much of the enforcement surge was carried out in communities ra...
When forcibly enter homes or make arrests without a judge-signed warrant, a patchwork of constitutional protections, administrative rules, civil and criminal remedies, and oversight bodies can be invo...
Since 2019 the picture of shows two linked trends: a volatile detained population that plunged during the and then climbed sharply afterward, and a rise and fall — and most recently a sharp spike — in...
’s public arrest and removal tallies are aggregated, operational statistics presented as official counts, while independent trackers like and the reconstruct individual-level events from ICE releases ...
Local judges in issued sweeping preliminary injunctions that barred from detaining, pepper‑spraying or retaliating against peaceful observers and ruled that safely following agents in vehicles does no...
Immigration convictions—administrative findings or federal immigration crimes such as unlawful reentry—operate in a separate legal track from , and that separation shapes who can arrest, detain, and d...