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Given the enormous amount of news about ICE, Cross Cultural Solidarity runs a few pages about specific dimensions of ICE news. What you’ll find on this page is news that falls outside of the following categories:
- ICE & Mass Surveillance.
- The assault on birthright citizenship.
- “Deportations” to Brutal Prisons, War Zones, and Black Sites.
- Detentions & Deportations of Legal US Residents.
- Detentions & Deportations of International Students Practicing Free Speech.
- Detainments & Deportations of Veterans & Their Families.
- Detainments & Deportations of Tourists & Travelers.
- Grassroots Organizing Against ICE.
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.
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
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Raids: A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don’t clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency.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. Andy Olsen: ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution. On
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
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. 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. 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.
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 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 23. Naomi LaChance: Trump Is Holding Immigrants at a Former Japanese Internment Camp.
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.
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 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. Jaclyn Diaz: What ICE agents can and cannot legally do during arrests.
September 22. Kylie Cheung: How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women.
September 27. Sam Levin: ‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help.
September 27. Iowa Public Radio: Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts put on leave after ICE arrest.
September 30. Home of the Brave: I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
October 2. Janelle Griffith: ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls.
October 3. Christina Carrega: Chicago’s Black Immigrants Face New Wave of ICE Arrests and Uncertainty.
October 3. Bobby Allyn: Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House’s request to remove ICE tracking app.
October 3. Joseph Cox: Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot.’
October 4. Siri Chilukuri: Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago. A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters.
October 6. South Side Weekly: Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children: Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
October 8. The Washington Post: Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE: The president, with no evidence, accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of not protecting immigration agents.
October 8. Joseph Cox: Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses.
October 8. David Wallace-Wells: ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason.’
October 8. Carrie Schreck: How the Border Patrol Uses Rodeos to Recruit: At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.
October 9. Jack Jenkins: Judge bars ICE from taking some violent actions against religious activists, journalists.
October 10. Gillian Brockell: This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison.
October 10. George Chidi: US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians: Agencies like Ice are way ahead of Donald Trump, who wants the military to treat cities like ‘training grounds’.
October 11. Lauren Kaori Gurley: Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices: In an unusual acknowledgment, the Labor Department said that tougher immigration enforcement is hurting farmers and the food supply.
October 11. Lucy Campbell: Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid.
October 12. Anne Applebaum: Manufactured Drama: ICE violence in Chicago is real, but it’s also made for Instagram.
October 12. Andrew Schwartz: Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver.
October 13. Aaron Glantz: Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests: Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments.
October 13. Gregory Royal Pratt: ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident.’
October 13. Meg Anderson: Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent.
October 14. Carol Rosenberg: ICE Sends More Migrants to Guantánamo Bay, Resuming Operations. The offshore holding sites had been empty since Oct. 1.
October 15. Destiny Torres: L.A. County Board of Supervisors declares ICE raids a local emergency.
October 15. Marisa Kabas: ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
October 16. Heather Knight: Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force:The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.
October 17. Aida Alami: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention: Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.
October 18. J. David McSwane & Hannah Allam: Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force.
October 18. Anna Schecter: Ex-ICE director says Trump’s immigration crackdown putting agents in “terrible position.”
October 20. Lynne Peeples: Dim days, bright nights: a hidden cruelty of Ice detention. Tens of thousands of people held across the US amid Trump’s immigration crackdown could face an insidious hazard: broken internal clocks.
October 20. Aaron Glantz: Lawmakers slam Ice after US military veterans are arrested, injured.
October 20. Judd Legum: ICE boosts weapons spending 600%: A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.
October 20. José Olivares and Will Craft: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks.
October 21. Gothamist: Federal agents descend on Chinatown in apparent raid.
October 21. AMNY: ICE conducts raid on Chinatown’s Canal Street, multiple people detained as New Yorkers rage.
October 22. Anna Betts: New York officials condemn Manhattan ICE raid: ‘This creates fear and chaos.’
October 22. Cy Neff: New York unveils portal for public to share ICE footage after four US citizens arrested.
October 22. Dani Anguiano: LA TikTok creator streaming ICE raids charged with assault after being shot: Carlitos Ricardo Parias remained hospitalized after he was shot in the elbow by federal agents during arrest.
October 22. Maya Yang: Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention, rights groups say: Women report miscarriages, delayed care, being shackled and being held in solitary confinement, letter says.
October 22. Maanvi Singh: Trump poised to send scores of federal agents to San Francisco: Newsom calls move ‘right out of the dictator’s handbook’ as agents prepare for key immigration enforcement operation.
October 22. Didi Martinez & Julia Ainsley: Some new ICE recruits have showed up to training without full vetting.
October 22. Subini Annamma and David Stovall: The Trump administration is targeting children of color.
October 22. Blair Paddock: Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, More Than a Dozen County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody.
October 22. Julia Ainsley & Didi Martinez: Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting: The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards.
October 22. Disabled Immigrants at Notorious California ICE Jail Report Abuse and Neglect.
October 23. Sam Levin: Police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats: Claim that Tren de Aragua planned to attack officers was widely shared – only for FBI to later acknowledge it was mistaken, internal files show.
October 23. Maanvi Singh: San Francisco Bay Area braces for Trump’s ‘aggressive’ immigration crackdown: Administration has reportedly sent more than 100 federal agents to US Coast Guard base near the California region.
October 23. Ximena Bustillo & Rahul Mukherjee: It’s the deadliest year for ICE in decades. As detentions rise, the trend may continue.
October 24. Justo Robles: Widow of man shot at Texas ICE facility questions whether political violence is to blame: Stephany Gauffeny lost her husband, Miguel García-Hernández, when he was shot at an ICE center and later died.
October 24. Bora Erden: How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets.
October 25. Shefali Luthra & Mel Leonor Barclay: ICE Keeps Detaining Pregnant Immigrants — But We Don’t Know How Many.
October 26. Michael Sainato: ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour.
October 26. Charles Thrush: Feds Tear Gas Northwest Side Street, Disrupting Halloween Parade For Kids.
October 27. Julia Ainsley & Laura Strickler: Trump plans to install Border Patrol officials to lead a more aggressive migrant crackdown: The White House has approved a list of ICE leaders to be replaced by Border Patrol officials in coming days amid disappointment with arrest numbers.
October 28. Adam Gabbatt: Trump administration will revamp ICE leadership in quest to intensify deportations.
October 28. Ava Macha: US citizens on the threat of being racially profiled by ICE: ‘I carry my passport card at all times.’
October 28. Andrea Cavallier: US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off.
October 29. Drew Harwell & Joyce Sohyun Lee: We checked DHS’s videos of chaos and protests. Here’s what they leave out. Trump administration videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, an analysis found.
October 29. Noah Lanard: How Dangerous Is It Really to Work for ICE? According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
October 29. Maya Yang: Democratic contender for Congress indicted over Chicago ICE protests: Progressive Palestinian American candidate Kat Abughazaleh, 26, decries ‘gross attempt at silencing dissent.’
October 30. Alice Speri: Wife of British commentator ‘abducted by ICE’ speaks out: ‘We’re being kept in the dark’: Soumaya Hamdi says she has barely spoken to Sami Hamdi since he was taken over his pro-Palestinian advocacy.
October 30. Associated Press: Senators demand answers on ICE’s use of full-body restraints on deportees.
October 31. Michael Loria: ‘Black box in which to disappear people’: Detainees describe ICE facility in lawsuit.
November 3. Mose Buchele: ICE seizing migrants from county jails, raising due process concerns.
November 4. Alexandria Jacobson: Horror of migrant kids ripped from parents by first Trump admin exposed in new book.
November 4. Ramon Antonio Vargas: Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state: Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment.
November 5. Natasha Korecki: Chicago residents say immigration enforcement is leading to children getting tear-gassed.
November 5. Adrian Florido: NPR fact checks Kristi Noem on ICE detaining US citizens.
November 5. Maya Yang: Armed ICE agents in Chicago drag daycare worker out of facility and arrest her: Videos show ICE agents chasing woman into daycare and appearing to slam her face against glass doors.
November 6. Associated Press: Judge orders improvements at a Chicago immigration facility after claims of inhumane conditions: ‘People shouldn’t be sleeping next to overflowing toilets,’ judge says.
November 6. Julianne McShane: A Border Patrol Agent Bragged About Shooting Someone, Texts Show. “Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao.”
November 6. Scott Neuman: ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry.
November 7. Marina Dunbar: ICE facing fierce backlash after video apparently shows unconscious man clutching child during arrest.
November 11. Dani Anguiano: California police intervene as ICE agent in plain clothes points gun at woman.
November 11. Andrew Jeong: ICE accused of pepper-spraying 1-year-old girl and her dad near Chicago.
November 11. Spencer Ackerman: ICE Caged This Man For His Instagram Posts And Likes.
November 12. Jason Koebler: AI-Generated Sora Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook.
November 13. Joseph Cox: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump’s Mass Deportation Effort.
November 14. Malcolm Ferguson: ICE Almost Deports Native American Woman: Leticia Jacobo was about to be deported, despite her Social Security number and tribal identification.
November 18. Jonah Kaplan: ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting.
November 18. Dan Gooding: Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied.
November 19. Roque Planas: Nearly all immigrants detained in Trump Chicago raid had no criminal conviction: Data sharply contradicts officials’ portrayal of immigration sweeps as effort to fight ‘worst of the worst’ criminals.
November 19. Code Switch: How undocumented families are navigating the looming threat of ICE.
November 19. Block Club Chicago: Feds Used Chemical Weapons On Chicagoans At Least 49 Times — Even After Judge Said To Stop.
November 20. Jason Koebler: ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In ‘System Crash’ a Day After It Was Sued.
November 20. Odette Yousef: As immigration crackdowns move on, Chicago group aims to share resistance techniques.
November 20. Ben Feuerherd: US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island.
November 20. George Chidi: ‘I lose my liberty in that moment’: Charlotte shuts down as citizens and noncitizens alike face ICE arrests.
November 20. Jusolyn Flower & Tim White: RI judge intervenes after ICE wrongfully detains Superior Court intern.
November 21. Julia Coin: ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol.
November 23. Marina Dunbar: ICE detained teenaged US citizen during school lunch break.
November 24. Jules Roscoe: Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite.
November 24. Natalie Armour & Ana Barboza: OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE.
November 24. ProPublica: ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
November 25. Dani Anguiano: ‘Living an American nightmare’: LA hearing details lasting trauma of ICE raids.
November 26. Edward Helmore: Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by US immigration agents: Bruna Ferreira, who has a child with the White House press secretary’s brother, is now in custody at an ICE facility.
December 3. Sharon Zhang: ICE Targets Somalis in Minneapolis as Trump Calls Them “Garbage.”
December 4. Ana Ley & Hamed Aleaziz: ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China.
December 4. Albert Sun: Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record.
December 5. Amy B Wang: Rep. Grijalva says ICE agents pepper sprayed her at Tucson restaurant raid.
December 6. Adam Gabbatt: Senator says ICE ‘attack dog’ caused ‘horrific’ injuries to unresisting man as he was detained.
December 7. Maria Sacchetti & Todd Wallack: Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest.
December 7. Heidi Wigdahl: Ring camera captures Burnsville ICE raid that leaves 7-year-old without parents, according to family.
December 9. Jon Collins: Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block.
December 10. Ryan Murphy: Dozens denied oath of allegiance at Indianapolis naturalization ceremony.
December 10. Taylor Giorno & Jackie Llanos: ICE Wants to Build an Oregon Detention Facility. Contractors Say Construction Plans Are Alarming.
December 11. Marina Dunbar: Woman extradited to US to face charges immediately detained by ICE in ‘Kafkaesque’ twist: Prosecutors had worked to secure extradition of Yana Leonova, but efforts unraveled when immigration officials issued order to deport her.
December 11. Victoria Bekiempis: Trump administration creates new militarized zone in California along southern US border: Trump hands 760 acres of California public land to the navy for a new defense zone, deepening border militarization.
December 12. Timothy Pratt: ‘They attacked my religion, my faith’: Muslim photojournalist detained by ICE speaks out: Ya’akub Vijandre, held in ICE detention in Georgia, tells Guardian he is concerned for safety of family and friends.
December 13. Edward Helmore: Kansas Native American tribe in turmoil over deal to design ICE facilities: Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation signed deal in October, but president says tribe is now trying to exit contract.