Image: from Journalist Taken Out of Courthouse in Stretcher After Shove From Masked ICE Agent.

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

News: 2026

January 30.   Richard Luscombe: Press freedom groups denounce arrests of two journalists including Don Lemon after Minnesota anti-ICE protest: Groups say arrests of ex-CNN anchor and Georgia Fort are ‘extremely alarming’ and an ‘attack on the first amendment.’

January 30.   PBS News: Arrests of journalists fuel backlash as anti-ICE protests spread from Minneapolis.

February 5.   Georgia Fort: I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?

February 18.   Pranav Baskar: Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program:An Associated Press reporter was hit and held with three other journalists and a lawyer, two detainees said, while at a center for migrants secretively deported from the United States.

March 5.   Mikeie Honda Reiland: Nashville Reporter Who Has Detailed ICE Activity Detained in South Nashville Stop.

March 6.   The Associated Press: ICE arrests US Spanish-language news outlet reporter without warrant. Estefany Rodriguez Florez of Nashville Noticias, who had produced reports that were unflattering to ICE, was arrested during traffic stop.

News: 2025

August 21.   George Chidi: Ice’s detention of Atlanta reporter seeks to ‘silence him’, ACLU petition says. Continued detention of Mario Guevara is retaliation for his reporting and violates his first amendment rights, filing says.

September 29.   CBS Chicago: Journalists endure force by agents while covering ICE activity in Broadview.  

October 1.   MS NOW: ‘You could hear the slam’: Journalist shoved to ground by ICE at immigration court.  

October 1.   Democracy Now! ICE Agents Assault Group of Reporters Documenting Arrests at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.  

October 8.   Freedom of the Press Foundation: Independent journalists must be protected from ICE attacks.  

October 9.   Jack Jenkins: Judge bars ICE from taking some violent actions against religious activists, journalists.

October 11.   Lucy Campbell: Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid.  

October 26.   Michael Sainato: ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour.

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.