ICE receives $464.5 million to purchase 10 airplanes for its deportation fleet, including two Gulfstream private jets that carry a maximum of 19 passengers.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to return a deported DACA recipient to the U.S. within seven days, calling her removal a flagrant violation of her protections.
TSA flagged a mother and her 9-year-old daughter on a passenger list and alerted ICE before plainclothes agents detained them at San Francisco International Airport.
Trump swears in Markwayne Mullin as Homeland Security secretary on day 39 of the DHS shutdown, with ICE agents deployed to airports and after over 400 TSA officers quit.
Minnesota sues the federal government for evidence in three ICE shootings during Operation Metro Surge, calling the categorical withholding of evidence unprecedented in American history.
Democrats detail Noem’s $220 million DHS ad campaign: $20,000 in horse rentals, a $60,000 signing bonus, and a no-bid contract routed through political allies.
Trump rejects a bipartisan deal to end the 38-day DHS shutdown, demanding Democrats first pass the SAVE America Act voting restrictions bill that lacks Senate votes.
Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin as DHS secretary 54-45, with Mullin signaling agents will need judicial warrants to enter homes and businesses.
Plainclothes ICE agents pin a Guatemalan mother to the ground at San Francisco’s airport as her young daughter watches, refusing bystanders’ demands to show badges.
Senate advances Mullin’s DHS nomination 54-37 with two Democratic votes, setting up final confirmation as department’s five-week shutdown continues.
Trump says he will block any DHS deal until Democrats pass the SAVE America Act, keeping ICE at airports “for as long as it takes.”
ICE agents ordered to deploy to airports Monday for crowd control as more than 400 TSA officers quit during five-week DHS shutdown.
Federal prosecutors drop charges against Minnesota woman they accused of joining church protest after she proves she was never there, arrested through cellphone tower dragnet.
Trump threatens to replace TSA with ICE agents at airports as DHS shutdown enters its sixth week with 366 screeners quitting since February 14.
Federal judge orders ICE to grant clergy access to Minneapolis detainees, rejecting the government’s blanket security defense as “the land of Oz.”
New Jersey and Roxbury sue to block ICE from converting a 470,000-square-foot warehouse into a 1,500-bed detention center that could open within three months.
Trump ally and government appointee allegedly called a top ICE official to have the mother of his teenage son detained and deported during a custody dispute.
ICE jails a Milwaukee woman a second time despite no criminal record in 36 years and a judge’s finding that she qualifies for permanent residency.
ICE buys a $145 million warehouse in Salt Lake City for a detention center without notifying Utah’s Republican governor or any member of the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation.
A 19-year-old Mexican migrant dies of a presumed suicide at a Florida ICE detention center that the Biden administration had restricted over medical care failures.
Spanish-language reporter in Tennessee is released on $10,000 bond after more than two weeks jailed by ICE, with her attorneys alleging First Amendment retaliation.
Protestant and Catholic clergy ask a federal judge to order pastoral access to immigrants held at the Minneapolis ICE facility that was the center of Operation Metro Surge.
Democratic Sen. Fetterman casts the deciding vote as Senate committee advances Mullin’s DHS nomination 8-7, after Chairman Paul votes no over anger and violence concerns.
Bronx high school student jailed by ICE at a court hearing last May is released after nearly 10 months in a Pennsylvania prison, with his attorneys saying he was in the country legally.
Senate Homeland Security chairman Rand Paul says he will vote against Trump’s DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin after a combative hearing in which the FBI found no record of foreign travel Mullin has long claimed was classified.
Texas reports 136 measles cases this year, with 99 concentrated in a single federal detention facility in Hudspeth County.
Gregory Bovino, who led Minnesota immigration crackdown and blamed Alex Pretti for his own killing, announces retirement after being sidelined by Trump.
Supreme Court grants Trump request to skip appeals courts and rule directly on ending protected status for 350,000 Haitians and several thousand Syrians.
Leqaa Kordia, Paterson woman jailed by ICE for over a year after attending pro-Palestinian protests near Columbia, released on $100,000 bond.
Human Rights Watch says El Salvador arbitrarily detains and disappears Salvadorans deported from the U.S., with only 10.5% convicted of violent crimes.
Afghan man who aided U.S. Special Forces and was awaiting asylum dies in ICE custody in Dallas less than 24 hours after eight masked agents detained him while taking his children to school.
Israel says brother of Michigan synagogue attacker who targeted more than 100 children was a Hezbollah commander killed in a strike 10 days earlier.
Federal judge temporarily blocks termination of deportation protections for more than 1,000 Somalis, days before the status was set to expire.
Federal order seeks to expand proposed Arizona ICE detention center 50% beyond its 513-person capacity, as immigration detention deaths hit highest level since 2004.
Colorado Democrats demand answers after data shows ICE held detainees for up to 39 days in holding cells with no beds, no toilets, and a 72-hour limit.
Journalists who exposed ICE’s surveillance tools explain how Flock cameras, Palantir, and networked databases track Americans from their driveways to deportation raids.
Federal judge halts construction of Maryland ICE detention center for 1,500, ruling the state will likely succeed in its challenge that DHS skipped environmental review.
ICE reverses plans to close Fort Bliss detention camp and hires a new unnamed contractor after firing the Virginia company that ran the $1.24 billion facility from a suburban house.
Leavenworth, Kansas, approves reopening a closed private prison for immigration detention after commissioners say CoreCivic lawsuit threats left them no choice.
Senate investigates husband of DHS spokesperson for his role in the $143 million Noem ad campaign, awarded no-bid to a firm incorporated seven days before the contract.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Blair privately urges House Republicans to stop saying “mass deportations” as new polls show nearly 60% disapprove of ICE after Minneapolis killings.
Hegseth orders all Pentagon supervisors to push civilian employees to volunteer for immigration enforcement, requiring senior approval to deny requests during an active war.
Second federal judge in one week restricts Portland ICE agents’ use of tear gas, this time protecting nonviolent protesters and journalists with class-action status.
Federal judge blocks DOJ rule that would have automatically dismissed most immigration appeals within 10 days, calling it devoid of “meaningful consideration.”
Tennessee Rep. Ogles says Muslims “don’t belong in American society,” calls for deporting a naturalized U.S. citizen mayor, as Sharia Free America Caucus escalates anti-Muslim rhetoric during Iran war.
ICE awards $426 million in contracts to two firms with no detention experience to convert warehouses into holding centers for up to 10,000 migrants each.
Federal judge orders ICE to justify arrest of Nashville journalist who covered immigration raids the day before she was detained, after attorneys call crumpled, unserved warrant unconstitutional.
Federal judge orders Portland ICE officers to stop using tear gas after chemicals from their facility seeped into a nearby apartment building housing seniors, veterans, and disabled tenants.
Legionella bacteria detected in Baltimore federal building that houses ICE holding rooms and a child care facility, with treatment failing to eliminate contamination.
Newly released footage shows a 23-year-old U.S. citizen was driving slowly with brake lights on in Texas last March before an immigration agent shot him through his car window.
