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A federal operation in Chicago
Federal courts have increasingly checked ICE’s use of warrantless arrests since 2022, most prominently in Chicago where a federal judge found multiple warrantless arrests violated the 2022 Castañon Na...
Marimar Martinez was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after federal officials said she attempted to ram and then drive at agents during an October immigration operation in Chicago — an account that ...
Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has been a large, highly publicized deployment — described by some officials as involving roughly 2,000 ICE and DHS agents — that produced more than 400 reported arr...
There is no public, authoritative dataset in the provided reporting that lists agents by state on a per‑capita basis for 2023 or later; ICE’s own public statistics describe arrests and program activit...
A federal judge in , , issued sweeping preliminary relief that directly constrained crowd‑control and force tactics deployed during and required new reporting and oversight measures for agents under ’...
Federal reporting and court records show multiple external lawsuits, judicial rulings and public scrutiny tied to operations led by , but public, detailed accounts of formal internal or CBP disciplina...
The year saw a decisive shift: the federal government revived and rapidly expanded cooperation with state and local law enforcement through a renewed emphasis on , driven by a January 20, 2025 executi...
A federal judge in the , , issued orders in mid‑October 2025 directing federal immigration agents working in the area who already possess and have been trained on body‑worn cameras to wear and activat...
Internal documents and federal directives that shape ICE strategy toward sanctuary jurisdictions include an agency "roadmap" for dramatically expanding detention capacity reported by The Washington Po...
Publicly documented officer counts for recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deployments are patchy: some episodes include explicit numbers—most prominently media reports of roughly 2,000 feder...
The Department of Homeland Security publicly asserted it had “credible intelligence” that Mexican criminal networks—working with U.S.-based gangs and extremist groups—were offering a tiered bounty pro...
Several recent ICE operations and enforcement practices have been explicitly likened to Gestapo methods by politicians, commentators, and activists — chiefly in response to masked, unmarked tactical r...