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.
Judge orders ICE to free a witness to its fatal Houston shooting, ruling his detention without a hearing violates due process.
Border czar Homan says ICE is reviewing its vetting after the agent who killed a legal Colombian resident in Maine allegedly had a domestic abuse record barring him from firearms.
Refugee agency moves to interview 800 Afghans about household immigration status in a wellbeing initiative advocates fear will fuel deportations, with answers kept 15 years.
ICE officer linked to Maine’s fatal shooting was ruled not credible by a judge last year, and records contradict his claimed police employment, the Washington Post reports.
Lab tests confirm the white powder in Lorenzo Salgado’s van was electrolyte mix, not drugs, after an ICE officer killed him and the FBI implied methamphetamine.
Leaked document catalogs the surveillance tools available across ICE, a 404 Media review shows, from smartphone location tracking to 1.8 billion insurance claims.
Appeals court blocks the end of TPS for Haitians through Monday, a four-day reprieve for 350,000 people whose work permits were set to expire Friday.
Colorado prosecutors charge a GEO Group detention worker with felony assault for shooting an anti-ICE protester in the foot outside the Aurora facility.
Judge orders ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at California’s Adelanto detention center, where advocates say four people have died since September.
ICE arrests hit a record 43,000 in June and 1,593 daily in July, though 40% of detainees face only civil immigration violations.
ICE officials privately warned of “insane” crowding as 86 detainees filled a Manhattan holding room built for brief stays, a Washington Post visual investigation shows.
Federal judge blocks ICE from deporting a witness to agents’ fatal shooting of a Houston man whose family disputes the government’s account.
Federal judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuits against Minnesota, its two largest cities, and Hennepin County over sanctuary policies, ruling preemption claims failed.
Army veteran armed with knives and a machete sets off fireworks and fires an airsoft rifle outside Manhattan’s main immigration building, injuring three.
FBI tells agents it will stop investigating ICE confrontations, leaving ICE to police itself, despite official denials, the New York Times reports.
Milwaukee’s city attorney defies a DOJ ultimatum, vowing to prosecute masked federal agents under the city’s law enforcement identification ordinance.
More than 1,000 Mainers march to Sen. Collins’ office after ICE agents killed a Biddeford father DHS admits was not their target.
Justice Department activates a secret 1996 terrorist deportation court for the first time, filing a sealed, classified case its own judge called insufficiently thought through.
Citizens Bank ends lending to ICE detention contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic after months of protests and $300 million in withdrawals.
DHS Secretary Mullin threatens state election officials with prison unless they screen voter rolls through a database a federal judge has blocked.
ICE arrests an Alaska state government attorney and ships him to Washington state detention, declining to say how he violated his admission terms.