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Palantir-enabled systems have been used in immigration enforcement operations, including targeting, planning, and executing enforcement actions.
Video footage published Jan. 28–29 shows a man identified by family and multiple news organizations as the rear taillight of a federal law-enforcement SUV during a protest on Jan. 13, and the encounte...
There are publicly available photographs and video images identified as David Easterwood in his role as acting Field Office Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and images of a ...
Federal immigration officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have the authority to operate in Minnesota under federal law as a federal agency charged with enforcing immigration sta...
has not uniformly refused to turn over inmates to , but the reality is nuanced: says it notifies ICE and transfers people after they serve required custodial portions of sentences, while hundreds of c...
Yes: reporting and court records show that have been detained — and in documented cases, wrongfully deported — by immigration authorities in recent years, though the full scale is uncertain because an...
has operated with broader enforcement latitude, higher arrest and detention intensity in many metrics, and a willingness to deploy large, public interior operations compared with and ; however, deport...
The federal government and Homeland Security officials have repeatedly described Operation Metro Surge as the "largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out," citing deployments of more t...
to arrest noncitizens — not — yet multiple independent audits, watchdog reports and news investigations document that American citizens have nevertheless been arrested or detained during recent enforc...
—most notably FALCON (including FALCON-SA), , into ICE workflows to ingest, link, analyze, and operationalize vast datasets for targeting, planning and executing , and to feed evidence and leads used ...
Federal prosecutors have in some instances arrested and charged people who showed up armed at protests — most notably during federal in and — asserting that the presence of firearms can implicate fede...
The question “ illegalities” collapses two competing narratives: official /ICE claims that recent operations removed the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens, and reporting and court findings ...
’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act () dramatically raised funding for detention—$45 billion authorized over several years and a roughly three- to four‑fold jump in annual detention appropriations— and sourc...
Across the reporting supplied, the most concrete figure is that — the deadliest year for ICE in two decades — and additional deaths tied to ICE activity continued into early 2026; however, the sources...
Federal and officials publicly reported that a 10-day enforcement action in late October–early November 2025 led to the arrest and removal of well over 150 sex offenders from Florida — and state state...
Multiple operations triggered follow-on federal prosecutions and state-level inquiries: large multiagency worksite and criminal-targeting raids in , , and various fraud prosecutions produced active fe...
v. is a newly filed putative class action in (docket 0:26‑cv‑00324) brought by and partner firms on January 15, 2026; the complaint and summonses have been filed and counsel is moving for pro hac admi...
shot and killed during a January operation in ; federal officials say the man approached agents armed and an “armed struggle” ensued, while multiple bystander videos and several news outlets show Pret...
Yes — multiple reputable news outlets, legal filings and government documents document instances in which U.S. citizens were detained, questioned or briefly held by immigration agents from ICE or rela...
ICE policy expressly prohibits detaining U.S. citizens, yet multiple investigative reports and data analyses show that agents have nonetheless held American citizens during immigration enforcement ope...