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ICE: Workplace Raids

Image: poster from the ACLU.

This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration.

Resources

The ACLU: What to do if ICE raids your workplace.

The American Immigration Council: Understanding ICE Raids at American Workplaces.

CNN: What to do if ICE shows up at your workplace.

Cross Cultural Solidarity: How ICE Harms the Economy.

The National Immigration Law Center: What to do if immigration comes to your workplace.

News: 2026

February 14.   Myah Ward & Megan Messerly: ‘South Texas will never be red again’: Home builders warn GOP over Trump’s immigration raids.

News: 2025

March 30.   WLRN Public Media: More than 100 arrested in ICE immigration sweep on Tallahassee construction site.

June 11.   The BBC: Jesús polished luxury vehicles at an LA car wash for years. Then ICE showed up.

June 11.   The Washington Post: ICE sets quotas to deliver on immigration crackdown on employers.

June 11.   Taylor Haney: Immigration raids could ‘devastate’ construction in the United States, says industry leader.

June 11.   Molly Ashford: Immigration raid at Omaha meatpacking plant spurs protests, stokes fear in the city.

June 17.   Joseph Gedeon: Trump orders Ice raids on farms and hotels after pausing them days earlier: Reversal comes days after president posted on Truth Social his ‘very aggressive’ raids were hurting farmers and hotels.

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 9.   Michael Sainato: Undocumented builders face unchecked exploitation amid Trump raids.

July 12.   Matt Lavietes & Dennis Romero: California farmworker dies after chaotic federal immigration raid.

July 14.   Tony Lange: ICE Raids at California Cannabis Farms Now Involve 14 Children, 361 Arrests, 1 Death.

July 27.   Eli Saslow & Erin Schaff: ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now? Glenn Valley Foods tried to verify every hire through a federal system. After a raid, the company is wondering how it can keep going.

August 21.   Adam Gabbatt: Dozens of warehouse workers detained in New Jersey immigration raid.

September 5.   Camila Domonoske: Homeland Security Investigations raided a Georgia battery plant, detaining 475 people.

September 11.  Sam Gringlas: Georgia built ties with South Korean companies over years. Then came the factory raid.