Texas DMV unanimously votes to require proof of legal status for vehicle registration, a rule one county tax assessor refuses to enforce because state law requires residency, not citizenship.
Congressman Raskin confirms a whistleblower’s account of inhumane conditions at a Baltimore ICE facility after a surprise inspection found 55 detainees packed into a single room.
Social Security Administration workers are told to share in-person appointment details with ICE agents, turning offices designed as safe spaces into potential immigration enforcement traps.
University of North Texas silently removes an art exhibit critical of ICE, covering its windows and erasing it from university channels without explanation to the artist, students or faculty.
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for roughly 1,380 Yemeni nationals despite the State Department’s own “do not travel” designation for Yemen due to terrorism, unrest and landmines.
Federal judge orders ICE to allow Catholic priests into a Chicago-area detention facility for Ash Wednesday, ruling the agency violated religious freedom law by ending a decade of weekly visits.
ICE agents followed Minnesota protesters to their homes, shouted their addresses, aimed rifles at them and mocked the death of Renee Good, according to nearly 100 sworn statements filed in federal court.
DHS sends hundreds of subpoenas to Google, Meta, Reddit and Discord demanding names and personal data of Americans who criticize or track ICE agents online.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion to convert warehouses into eight large-scale detention centers and 16 processing sites, expanding capacity to 92,600 beds using funds from the OBBBA.
ICE places two agents on administrative leave for lying under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, one week after an agent killed Renee Good in the same city.
Affordable housing residents ask federal judge to restrict DHS chemical munitions near Portland ICE facility, saying tear gas seeping into units caused heart failure and breathing problems.
Department of Homeland Security shuts down as Democrats and White House trade offers on ICE reforms, with Congress gone until Feb. 23 and no deal in sight.
Federal prosecutor moves to dismiss charges against the Venezuelan man an ICE agent shot in Minneapolis, saying newly discovered evidence contradicts the government’s own complaint and testimony.
Federal judge orders the government to fly deported Venezuelans back to the U.S. for court hearings, ruling the 137 men were denied due process before being sent to an El Salvador prison.
Columbia protest detainee Leqaa Kordia says she was chained to a hospital bed for 72 hours after a seizure, nearly a year into detention without criminal charges.
Federal judge orders ICE to stop blocking thousands of Minnesota detainees from contacting attorneys, calling the agency’s claim it provided access “threadbare” and unsupported by evidence.
Federal judge blocks $600 million in public health funding cuts targeting four Democratic states, finding the grants were likely rescinded to retaliate against immigration enforcement opposition.
Senate leaves for recess after failing to fund DHS, with ICE and Border Patrol unaffected because last year’s reconciliation bill already gave them billions.
Border czar Tom Homan announces the end of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, claiming credit for “unprecedented coordination” from the same local officials who said ICE never contacted them.
Customs and Border Protection chief tells senators Alex Pretti was “fighting back nonstop” after watching video showing the unarmed nurse standing with his hands up before agents shot him.
CBP signs $225,000 deal with Clearview AI to use facial recognition built on 60 billion scraped images for “tactical targeting” of border intelligence operations.
Government loses three hard drives plaintiffs purchased to store court-ordered ICE detention footage, then claims it ran out of storage space and has no footage from isolation cells.
Trump administration sends all pregnant unaccompanied children to a single Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate, where abortion is virtually banned, over its own officials’ objections.
New Jersey launches website for residents to report ICE conduct and signs executive order barring federal immigration enforcement on state property without judicial warrants.
ICE jailed a lawful permanent resident for 143 days and tried to deport her over two bad checks totaling less than $75 written more than a decade ago.
California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota sue to block $600 million in CDC public health funding cuts the states say are driven by political retaliation over immigration enforcement disagreements.
Protesters stage sit-ins at Target stores in more than a dozen cities, pressuring the Minneapolis-based retailer to publicly oppose the immigration crackdown that killed two residents in its home city.
IRS improperly shared confidential tax data of thousands of immigrants with DHS, breaching legal protections courts had already ruled violated taxpayers’ rights.
Pentagon lets CBP fire an anti-drone laser near Fort Bliss without FAA coordination, triggering a chaotic airspace shutdown the administration blames on a cartel incursion.
ICE secretly leases more than 150 offices across nearly every state, with DHS ordering GSA to hide locations and bypass competitive bidding.
Newly released body camera video contradicts DHS account of Border Patrol agent shooting Chicago woman five times during October immigration raid.
FAA declares “national defense airspace” over El Paso and grounds all flights for 10 days with no explanation, authorizing deadly force against aircraft that enter the restricted zone.
Former Minnesota U.S. attorney who resigned over the Renee Good investigation now defends Don Lemon against his former office’s first-ever criminal FACE Act religious freedom charges.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demands a full list of ongoing inspector general investigations while her office sends the independent watchdog “reminder” emails about a never-used power to kill probes.
Appeals court rules the government can move forward with deporting more than 60,000 immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal, overriding a judge who found the decision was racially motivated and “preordained.”
Immigration court terminates the government’s attempt to deport Tufts Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk, ruling the administration failed to prove its case against the pro-Palestinian activist it arrested for co-authoring a student newspaper op-ed.
Federal officials denied seeking to expedite deportation of the Minneapolis family whose 5-year-old son Liam was photographed surrounded by immigration officers, after their lawyer called the proceedings “extraordinary” and possibly “retaliatory.”
Federal judge blocks California’s mask ban for immigration officers because it excluded state police, but upholds visible badge requirement for all non-uniformed law enforcement.
Trump calls Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance “an affront to the Greatness of America,” criticizing the Puerto Rican singer’s use of Spanish.
Jeffries says Democrats have not heard back from White House or congressional Republicans on ICE reform demands as DHS funding deadline hits Friday.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warns DHS over a $102 million warehouse ICE bought near Hagerstown for detention as Howard County passes bipartisan emergency law blocking a separate private facility.
Oregon family detained by ICE while taking their 7-year-old to a Portland emergency room released after three weeks in a Texas detention center.
Two active tuberculosis cases and 18 COVID infections detected at the 5,000-bed ICE tent facility at Fort Bliss where three detainees have died in six months.
ICE’s chief counsel in Minnesota retired Friday as the U.S. Attorney admits his office is overwhelmed after losing more than a dozen veteran prosecutors to Operation Metro Surge litigation.
Police arrest 54 anti-ICE protesters outside Minneapolis federal building after deputy struck in the head with ice during demonstration.
Fifth Circuit rules Trump can hold immigrants arrested anywhere in the U.S. without bond hearings, reversing decades of detention policy in a 2-1 decision.
Sen. Blackburn demands Chief Justice Roberts investigate Justice Jackson’s impartiality for attending the Grammys, where artists wore “ICE out” pins and criticized immigration enforcement.
Whistleblower from Baltimore ICE detention facility describes detainees lying in feces, 50 people in cells meant for far fewer, and women given diapers instead of sanitary products.
DHS allowed one congresswoman into Minneapolis detention facility after she produced a court order but denied entry to two other lawmakers, as the doctor-turned-representative found no measles protocols in place.
55 Cuban deportees held for weeks at Guantánamo in former Al Qaeda prison were transferred back to the U.S. after Cuba refused to accept them.
