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Policies or practices of providing shelter or protection to individuals, particularly in places of worship, from immigration enforcement actions.
Since 2024, ICE activity under the Trump administration has shown a clear geographic and tactical split: in Republican-led states and jurisdictions federal enforcement has leaned on arrests inside det...
Yes — reporting and government documents show that some anti‑ICE protesters have committed violence, including assaults, vehicular confrontations and threats, and isolated instances that escalated to ...
are being deployed to a mix of cities across the country — prominently to and other urban areas — as part of a large, multi-pronged enforcement campaign that has involved , , support and even and acti...
has conducted high-profile interviews with including segments amplifying immigration and local fiscal concerns; . Shirley’s reporting has boosted the mayor’s national visibility but also carries the b...
The evidence shows that ICE has deployed different arrest tactics in Democratic-leaning (“blue”) and Republican-leaning (“red”) states: a preponderance of arrests in jails and prisons in red states ve...
are not a uniform legal shield that prevents local authorities from arresting, reporting, or enabling the deportation of undocumented people accused of felonies; rather, most sanctuary jurisdictions l...
Yes—federal law gives ICE officers broad authority to make arrests and, under Attorney General–prescribed regulations, to carry firearms while performing immigration-enforcement duties , but that auth...
ICE coordinates with local police, Customs and Border Protection (including Border Patrol), state National Guard units and other federal agencies through formal deputization programs, memoranda of agr...
Federal immigration officers do not categorically “supersede” state or local law enforcement; ICE is a federal agency whose immigration authorities derive from federal statute and regulations, but tho...
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...
Minneapolis’s current reality — where some people federal authorities call “criminal targets” are not sitting in local jails for ICE to pick up — is the product of clashing legal authorities, judicial...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have publicly framed the January 14 Minneapolis operations as targeted enforcement actions marked by violent res...
ICE reports large numbers of people in its custody with “pending criminal charges,” but publicly available reporting and ICE datasets reviewed here do not provide a systematic national breakdown showi...
—broadly defined as rules that limit local cooperation with —tend to reduce the number of deportations and arrests routed through local jails while not increasing crime, but their effects vary sharply...
Since 2003, cities that enacted separation or “” ordinances have faced a shifting legal gauntlet: direct federal lawsuits and executive orders seeking to compel cooperation or withhold funds, state la...
ICE’s intensified focus on Minnesota is the result of an administratively driven surge — a concentrated deployment of enforcement personnel tied to the Trump administration’s declared crackdown and sp...
Federal and state courts have repeatedly split over challenges to bans on : lower courts and several circuits have constrained the ’s effort to withhold grants from , the largely upheld a state ban, s...
States do not share a single definition or reporting standard for “illegal immigrant-related” crimes; reporting combines federal immigration categories, local criminal records, and ad hoc metrics that...
Local arrests and booking records are often the raw material that triggers interest: fingerprints and booking data flow into federal databases and can prompt that lead to transfers into immigration cu...
ICE’s own and independent analyses show that a majority of people booked into ICE custody are arrested after being identified in local jails and prisons (the so‑called Criminal Alien Program) rather t...