Tracking ICE

Standout reporting and relevant court cases on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the second Trump Administration.

The Trump administration wants to deport hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents to dangerous countries. And the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority just gave its blessing.
While the exact number of deported veterans is impossible to pin down – ICE has long failed to collect the veteran status of the people it detains, as is required – several advocates told Al Jazeera that they have been witnessing a rise in the deportations of US veterans during Trump's second term.
More than 50 people gathered in front of Oklahoma Highway Patrol headquarters ahead of the Fourth of July to protest the federal government's sweeping deportations of undocumented immigrants
The Trump administration claims that an estimated 2.2 million people self-deported in the first year of his second term. The Center of Migration Studies argues, using the government’s own previous data, that the true number of self-deportations in 2025 was around 200,000.
After spending nearly eight months in detention facilities across the United States, Jose Enrique Ojeda Duarte was finally deported to his native Venezuela in early April. He had been detained while on his way to work in Chicago in September, at the height of Operation Midway Blitz.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration on Thursday, clearing the way for it to strip TPS from about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. The court’s ruling also has broad implications beyond those two countries.
Supreme Court allows Trump to end protected status for Haiti, Syria risking family separation, advocates say.
Withdrawal of TPS designation puts workers who fill vital role in peril – and risks further shortages in US health system
The ICE contractor has hired Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff and a former Democratic senator as it builds out a Democratic lobbying operation on Capitol Hill.
A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.
The Trump administration "would prefer to do things that are easy," Rachel Maddow points out. And so, by making the implementation of a nationwide immigrant prison system not at all easy, and, in fact, quite hard, Americans pushing back against Trump's plan are winning, and Trump's prisons are not opening.
Chicagoans overwhelmingly opposed last fall’s federal immigration crackdown and the aggressive tactics used to carry it out, and amid President Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity among city residents, most residents are concerned he will deploy federal agents near polling places in November, a new poll shows.
Discover the impact of ICE arrests on immigrant communities in Queens, NYC. Explore the devastating effects of Trump's deportation campaign on families and neighborhoods.
Buffalo’s Rohingya community pushes for NY state law to protect immigrants after Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s death
In her first interview since being deported, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, the French widow of a former G.I., recounted her experience in ICE detention.
Arrests are ticking back up, with immigrants targeted at hearings and in courthouses, although federal agents are far less present in the streets than they were in the fall.
Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.
The unannounced oversight visit came hours after the Arizona Mirror’s report found 250 people in a space built for 157
The policy of sending immigrants to third countries when they can't be sent back to their home countries is a major departure from previous administrations.
For five months, the young father waited for his 3-year-old daughter's release from federal custody after she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her mother, hoping through delays for their safe reunion. Only when he turned to the courts as a last resort did he learn that the girl had suffered alleged sexual abuse at the foster home where she'd been placed after immigration officials separated her from her mother.
Immigrant or not, Trump’s mass deportation pledges have fundamentally changed how regular people live.
Rachel Maddow points out several instances of Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security paying tens of millions of dollars more than the assessed value of warehouses the administration wants to turn into massive prison camps for immigrants.
Saturday’s protests drew millions of people across the US and around the world. The Guardian spoke with some of them to see why they were there and what’s next
At least 539 arrests took place at closed-door immigration appointments
The Trump administration's unprecedented expansion of migrant detention facilities is igniting fierce opposition in communities across the political and geographic spectrum, as the administration moves to scale up its detention footprint to fuel its campaign to arrest, detain and deport the largest number of immigrants in modern U.S. history.
Women describe conditions that violate longstanding agency guidelines for how pregnant detainees should be treated.
DHS’s next leader will inherit a fast-moving $38 billion plan for industrial-scale immigrant detention.
One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps pursuing similar cases, puzzling legal experts.
The former secretary of homeland security and the agency she ran are under scrutiny for the uncompetitive awarding of contracts
ICE has learned how to be cruel and lawless without drawing so much attention to itself.

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