Volunteer flight tracker documents the 5,000th shackled detainee flown from Minneapolis since November, with records more accurate than any public government count.
Appeals court bars DHS immigration enforcement at 1,400 houses of worship after finding the policy already cut attendance at Quaker, Sikh, and Baptist congregations.
Idaho probation officers compile a list of foreign-born people for ICE using intake forms alone, emailing agents when targets arrive for required check-ins.
Judge Dolly Gee orders independent monitoring of children in immigration detention after finding families denied soap, held in freezing cells, and delayed medical care.
Rep. Pingree says the man ICE killed in Maine had no final removal order and wasn’t the intended target, contradicting the agency’s account.
Minnesota sues Texas Governor Abbott for refusing to extradite the ICE agent charged with shooting a man during Operation Metro Surge.
DOJ appeals the dismissal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s smuggling charges after a judge ruled the prosecution punished him for fighting deportation.
San Diego County bans ICE and Border Patrol from its firearm training ranges after agents logged 3,350 hours since 2024 under agreements never publicly disclosed.
Liberia agrees to accept up to 1,200 US deportees, most of whom won court protection after judges found they risked torture at home.
ICE proposes subsidizing $500,000 liability insurance policies for local officers deputized to make immigration arrests, removing a hurdle keeping police departments from joining.
CBP pauses all construction on its $1.7 billion border project in Big Bend National Park as bulldozers clear a route near Santa Elena Canyon.
Army wife Maisa Lopes Eliaser returns home after an unexplained mid-flight phone call let her stay aboard her Brazil deportation flight and fly back.
Judge rules border security outweighs Tohono O’odham objections, refusing to block 62 miles of wall on the tribe’s Arizona reservation without its consent.
22 states sue to block DHS from seizing 17 million commercial drivers’ records after the administration threatened $10 million in grant funding.
CBP employees used government databases to stalk exes, track coworkers’ phones, and tip smugglers, records spanning more than a decade show.
Massachusetts judge orders a county sheriff to release ICE detainees’ anonymized health records, ruling a federal contract cannot override state public records law.
US attorney confirms FBI tests found no meth in the van of ICE shooting victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo but withholds the results.
Burke Law Group withdraws from the no-bid contract worth up to $150 million to represent migrant children after advocacy groups flagged the Trump-connected award.
ICE names the third Delaney Hall detainee death after a policy change dropped the rule requiring review of deaths that occur after release.
Seven FIU students sue after the university demanded apology videos for a silent anti-ICE protest, withholding their degrees unless they comply.
ICE agent points gun at a Northern Virginia counselor who cursed at agents, as DHS alleges a vehicle attack her own dashcam video disproves.
HHS awards $158 million for unaccompanied children’s legal services to a nonprofit led by an ex-ICE official, its first federal contract ever.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on thousands of electric shock gloves for officers through a no-bid contract, AP reports.
ICE will pay LexisNexis $6.7 million to pipe 82 billion records into Palantir systems that map neighborhoods for deportation targeting, procurement documents show.
Judge orders DOJ to justify holding an Afghan permanent resident whose lawyers cannot see the classified evidence in the first secret deportation court case.
State Department announces 175,000 visa revocations since January 2025, including some for social media posts and 100 at one embassy over birth tourism.
Federal judge orders CBP to free a Montana father of three detained without warrant in a case of mistaken identity and driven across four towns in 30 hours.
New Jersey subpoenas GEO Group in a civil rights investigation of Delaney Hall days after a third detainee death at the Newark immigration jail.
ICE will finish equipping officers with body cameras by late September under a policy letting its director block footage releases not in the agency’s interests.
Trump signs new orders restricting birthright citizenship 5 weeks after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 his broader denial violated the 14th Amendment.
Massachusetts Gov. Healey signs a law barring ICE from schools, hospitals, and courthouses as ICE detains a second-term monthly record 46,000 people in July.
Federal judge holds DHS in contempt for slow-walking her order to turn over 800 immigration agents’ cellphone records from the Los Angeles raids.
Federal judge orders ICE to release a Cambodian refugee brought to Providence as an infant in 1976, detained at a check-in to deport him.
HHS hands a 26-employee Texas firm with no listed immigration expertise up to $150 million a year to represent 24,000 unaccompanied children in court.
Family of a Salvadoran man who died at Delaney Hall says he was denied his diabetes and seizure medications, demanding an independent investigation.
ICE added an estimated 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI’s criminal database last year, a WIRED review shows, as border agents swabbed children as young as 4.
CBP halts new well drilling for border wall construction after New Mexico found contractors illegally drilled 8 wells pumping ranchers’ groundwater during a drought.
Federal judge blocks New York’s ban on masked ICE agents as unconstitutional state regulation of federal officers, while letting the state’s 287(g) prohibition stand.
New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez discloses a second detainee death at Delaney Hall after an oversight visit, accusing ICE of intentionally hiding custody deaths.
Rochester City Council unanimously approves $125K in emergency housing, legal and family-preparedness support for immigrants and refugees facing ICE detention.
More than 1,000 march against ICE in Fishers, Indiana, countering a secret-location rally keynoted by former Border Patrol commander Bovino.
24,000 unaccompanied immigrant children lose their lawyers Friday as the government lets the legal-aid contract lapse while owing $65 million.
New Mexico’s attorney general sues the state’s own child welfare agency for telling a teen in its custody to walk alone into Mexico.
DACA mother of 3 sues after DHS deports her despite valid status, then moves to revoke it for unauthorized travel.
Ninth Circuit becomes the fifth appeals court to strike Trump’s no-bail detention of immigrants arrested away from the border.
ICE writes state law “shall not apply” into detention contracts for four states one day after a judge ruled a contract cannot override state oversight.
DOJ seeks its first-ever deportation through a secret-evidence terrorism court dormant since 1996, targeting an Afghan mother tied to a convicted Election Day plotter.
New Jersey Gov. Sherrill refuses DOJ’s demand for personal data on 6,600 mistakenly registered noncitizens the administration has threatened to deport.
New federal rule cancels asylum interviews for up to 444,000 cases, sending applicants who entered legally straight to deportation proceedings.
DHS statistics chief Marc Rosenblum resigns citing wars on immigrants, federal workers and facts, a rare public rebuke from inside the department.
