DHS pauses plans to purchase more warehouses for immigrant detention as new Secretary Mullin reviews Noem’s $38 billion expansion program.
Homan says ICE agents will remain at airports indefinitely after 500 TSA officers quit during the 45-day DHS shutdown.
Police confirm 75 arrests at Los Angeles “No Kings” protest after demonstrators attempted to breach fencing around a federal detention center.
House discharge petition to extend temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitian nationals reaches 218 signatures with four Republicans crossing party lines.
Third “No Kings” protests draw an estimated 8 million people to 3,300 events worldwide, with 200,000 rallying at Minnesota’s Capitol where Springsteen performed.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons hospitalized at least twice for stress as White House pressure to hit deportation targets intensifies, officials say.
House passes eight-week DHS funding bill on day 42 of shutdown as Senate leaves for two-week recess without acting on either chamber’s plan.
Federal judge orders Florida immigration detention facility to publish attorney visit policies and provide confidential legal phone calls to detainees.
Federal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit against Minnesota’s in-state tuition policies for undocumented students, ruling the state’s benefits are not based solely on residency.
Vance holds first meeting of new anti-fraud task force targeting federal benefit programs, citing Minnesota allegations that triggered Operation Metro Surge.
South Dakota governor signs law requiring proof of citizenship for new voter registrations, effective immediately before the June primary.
Deputy AG Blanche endorses sending ICE to polling places despite federal law barring government forces during elections.
Appeals court allows federal tear gas near Portland ICE building again, two days before No Kings protest, as apartment residents stock gas masks.
Federal judge extends order requiring ICE give Minnesota detainees access to lawyers within one hour and blocks out-of-state transfers for 72 hours.
ICE agents ran Minnesota lawmakers’ license plates, followed them home and photographed their houses during Operation Metro Surge, records show.
Senate unanimously passes bill funding most of DHS except ICE and Border Patrol, sending it to the House before Easter recess.
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.
