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This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration.
See also: ICE Detentions of US Citizens.
Detentions and Deportations of Green Card Holders
2026
March 6. Sam Levin: ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care.’
2025
March 14. Sarah Betancourt: Green card holder from New Hampshire ‘interrogated’ at Logan Airport, detained.
March 22. Ben Gutierrez: Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders.
April 28. Rory Carroll: Irish woman living in US for decades detained by immigration officials. Cliona Ward, who had returned from trip to Ireland, held over criminal record from almost 20 years ago.
May 1. Claire Fahy: What Green Card Holders Should Know in Preparing to Travel Outside the U.S.
June 4. Martin Kaste: More green card holders are being detained over criminal records.
July 29. Kim Bellware: Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation: Tae Heung Kim, a Korean citizen studying in the United States, is being held in San Francisco after returning from his brother’s wedding overseas.
July 11. Michael Rosenfield: N.H. green card holder denied re-entry to U.S. after visiting native Canada.
December 15. Adam Gabbatt: US green card holder sues ICE over claims of ‘violent assault’: Hilda Ramirez Sanan and her two US citizen children were ‘illegally and forcefully detained.’
Detentions and Deportations of People with Work or Business Visas
2026
February 9. Rory Carroll: Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months: Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation.
February 10. Shawn Pogatchnik: Ireland pushing to free citizen held by ICE in Texas: Irish PM Micheál Martin is wary of provoking the U.S. administration, but behind-the-scenes efforts to free Seamus Culleton from ICE custody have proven fruitless.
2025
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.
Detentions & Deportations of Migrants who had been Granted Asylum or Other Legal Protections
May 24. Karina Tsui: Judge rules Trump administration must work to return asylum seeker from Guatemala who was wrongfully deported.
June 1. Jonathan Blitzer: Trump Makes America’s Refugee Program a Tool of White Racial Grievance.
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.
July 23. Asawin Suebsaeng: Trump Wants to Deport a Children’s Hospital Chaplain to Egypt, Where He ‘Faces Death’.
August 10. Ximena Bustillo: Asylum-seekers thought they were following the rules. Now some are told to start over.
Revoking of Temporary Legal Status
May 30. Lawrence Hurley: Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke temporary legal status of 500,000 immigrants from 4 countries.
June 27. Tom Phillips: US says Haitians can be deported – days after ruling Haiti unsafe for Americans. Trump administration revokes temporary protected status for citizens of country racked by deadly violence.
July 17. Lauren Kaori Gurley: Here legally since 1999, thousands of immigrants have 60 days to leave: In September, the Department of Homeland Security will end temporary protections for more than 50,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans who have lived in the U.S. for decades.
Detentions & Deportations of Long-Term Residents
June 24. Leila Fadel: Salvadoran journalist’s arrest in Georgia sets ‘alarming precedent.’
August 4. The LA Times: Can the U.S. deport someone who’s lived here for 30 years without an immigration hearing?