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ICE News: 2025
February 19. Steven Monacelli: ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account.
February 21. Hamed Aleaziz & Zolan Kanno-Youngs: Trump Administration Shakes Up ICE Leadership: The leadership change comes as the president aims to make good on a promise of mass deportations and arrests of undocumented immigrants across the United States.
April 8. Andrew Duehren: Top I.R.S. Officials Said to Resign After Deal to Give ICE Migrants’ Data: The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s previous stance encouraging migrants to file their taxes.
April 18. Caroline Haskins: ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform.
May 9. Caroline Haskins: US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car.
May 10. Andy Greenberg & Lily Hay Newman: ICE’s Deportation Airline Hack Reveals Man ‘Disappeared’ to El Salvador.
May 16. Gustavo Solis: The plight of a disabled man in ICE custody shows impact of Trump immigration orders.
May 29. Dhruv Mehrotra: The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database: Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
June 4. Dhruv Mehrotra & Dell Cameron: ICE Quietly Scales Back Rules for Courthouse Raids: A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don’t clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency.
June 6. Maria Sacchetti: ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants: Trump officials transferred the migrants to the East African nation in response to a judge’s order. They now face threats that include rocket attacks from Yemen.
June 9. Howard Blume: LAUSD will deploy school police to set up safe zones around campuses, graduations amid ICE raids
June 12. Konstantin Toropin & Thomas Novelly: Pentagon Encourages Troops to Join Immigration Enforcement, Border Security Job Training Program.
June 22. Emily Witt: The People Being Disappeared by ICE in Los Angeles: As communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.
June 24. Matt deGrood: She called 911 to report domestic abuse. Then Houston police called ICE on her.
July 25. Dhruv Mehrotra & Dell Cameron: ‘They’re Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls.
June 26. Hannah Ziegler: Canadian Citizen Dies at ICE Detention Center in Florida.
June 26. Joseph Cox: ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show.
June 26. Andy Olsen: ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution. On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers were detained in Los Angeles, adding to the count of church members taken despite lawful status.
June 28. Wired Magazine: ICE Rolls Facial Recognition Tools Out to Officers’ Phones.
June 30. Marianne LeVine: ICE is arresting migrants in worksite raids. Employers are largely escaping charges. Trump has focused workplace raids on small businesses as part of his administration’s push to ramp up arrests of unauthorized migrants.
July 1. Robert McCoy: ICE-Tracking App Skyrockets in Popularity After Trump Team Freaks Out. ICEBlock, an app that alerts users to nearby ICE presence, has launched to the top of the App Store.
July 2. Arelis R. Hernández: What is and isn’t legal when ICE officers make an immigration arrest. Videos showing masked officers whisking people into unmarked cars have sparked outcry. A look at ICE’s powers as Congress prepares to give the agency a giant infusion of cash.
July 3. Reece Rogers: Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. The platform, which allows users to anonymously share the locations of ICE agents, is currently the third-most-downloaded iPhone app.
July 8. Frankie Solinsky Duryea: Video: ICE agents drive SUV through protesters at S.F. immigration court. Immigration agents clashed with protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.
July 8. Edith Olmsted: Kristi Noem Guts ICE Oversight as Detainee Deaths Surge.
July 8. Leah Feiger & Dhruv Mehrotra: The 911 Calls Inside ICE Detention Centers.
July 9. Joseph Cox: ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets.
July 9. Holmes Lybrand: Pro-Israel website was used to find names of student protesters to investigate, senior ICE official says.
July 13. The Washington Post. ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens: The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
July 14. Ezra Levin: What I heard at an ICE detention facility.
July 15. Debbie Nathan: ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court: ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
July 15. ProPublica: The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE.
July 15. Maria Sacchetti & Carol D. Leonnig: ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings.A memo from the agency’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
July 15. Hayley Miller: Baseball coach says ICE agents questioned kids at practice: ‘This can happen to anybody.’
July 17. Shirin Ali: A Former ICE Official Is Worried the Agency Is About to Go on a Spree of Hiring Proud Boys.
July 20. Laura Rodríguez Presa: ICE took her mother. Now, a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or legal path back to reunite in Honduras.
July 21. Zach Helfand: ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field.
July 22. Brittny Mejia: Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas.
July 24. Douglas MacMillan & Silvia Foster-Frau: ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors: A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance.
August 2. Jessica Washington: Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents.
August 6. Malcolm Ferguson: ICE Traps Congressional Democrats Trying to Visit Detention Center: Democratic members of Congress attempting to visit immigrants at a New York City ICE detention center say they were detained by federal agents.
August 6. Sean Michael Newhouse: Trump administration cuts age limits for ICE agent recruits.
August 6. David Dayen: FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE: Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs.
August 6. Grace Moon: Purdue student from South Korea released from ICE detention facility: Yeonsoo Go was detained and sent to a federal detention facility in Louisiana after attending a visa hearing in New York.
August 7. Ximena Bustillo & Ailsa Chang: ICE is recruiting federal workers, offering bonuses to hire thousands of workers.
August 7. Tom Dreisbach: Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to ‘kill’ cops.
August 7. Anna Betts: Fort Bliss army base on US southern border to take 1,000 Ice detainees: Fort Bliss could be largest US immigration detention facility as White House moves to use military bases for crackdown.
August 8. AP News: U.S. Air Force to deny early retirement benefits to some transgender service members.
August 13. Emma Uber & Lauren Morello: Checkpoint with ICE agents met by protesters in D.C.
August 14. Joseph Cox: ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time.
August 20. Luis Ferré-Sadurní: Deportation of 6-Year-Old Puts Spotlight on ICE’s Detention of Families.
August 20. Kimmy Yam: Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center.
August 20. Matt Burgess: Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High.
August 28. Marina Dunbar: ‘Nightmare’: family in shock after Ice moves LA teen out of state without their knowledge.
August 30. Associated Press: Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say: Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention.
August 30. Chloe Veltman: Musicians show support for longtime Utah violinist detained by ICE.
September 2. Valerie Gonzalez: ICE is showing up to interview parents hoping to reunite with their children who entered US alone.
September 4. Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Why Trump Might Want ICE To Be His Private Militia: Seeing ICE as a coup-proofing corps.
September 4. Vittoria Elliott: State Department Agents Are Now Working With ICE on Immigration: The State Department’s law enforcement arm is now involved in immigration enforcement, an area solidly outside its usual duties.
September 10. Siri Chilukuri: Rightwing influencer accompanied Ice agents during raids in Chicago. Ben Bergquam was with Ice agents during a raid on Sunday and yelled at protesters that they were ‘the enemy within.’
September 10. Jack Poulson: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon.
September 12. Lydia DePillis & Hamed Aleaziz: Georgia ICE Raid Netted Workers With Short-Term Business Visas: Last week’s immigration operation at a battery plant highlighted a tactic that companies use to bring in foreign workers to establish new operations.
September 13. NPR: The Supreme Court clears the way for ICE agents to treat race as grounds for immigration stops.
September 16. The Washington Post: 60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Ft. Bliss. As the Trump administration rushes to open massive makeshift holding centers nationwide, ICE’s own inspectors say the marquee Texas project is violating dozens of federal standards for immigrant detention.
September 19. Brianna Tucker & Amy B Wang: Congressional candidate thrown to ground during protest outside ICE facility:Kat Abughazaleh, 26, a Democrat running for the 9th Congressional District seat in Illinois, was among the demonstrators who clashed with federal agents.
September 19. Jaclyn Diaz: What ICE agents can and cannot legally do during arrests.
September 20. Gerardo Zavala: California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers’ identities.