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Appears in 34 stories · Last updated Nov 9, 2026
Subject of internal mortality reviews and public-records dispute
Marie Ange Blaise collapsed at a Florida detention center in April 2025. Internal reviewers later found staff did not start CPR even though she had no pulse. A New Republic analysis published Nov. 6, 2026, found that pattern in most of the deaths it reviewed: 23 of 29 detainees received care ICE itself judged outside safe limits.
Updated 2 days ago
Operated the planned removal flight, according to the filing
Eleven Iranian nationals were moved from Arizona detention centers late on Nov. 7 and scheduled for a 4 a.m. charter flight to Pakistan the next morning, according to an emergency court filing. Their lawyers said the government had not given a federal judge the five business days' notice she required before any removal to Iran.
Updated 3 days ago
Subject of the policy change
Houston police will no longer call federal immigration agents when they stop someone for a minor traffic violation. Mayor John Whitmire's Nov. 6 executive order, numbered 1-74, lets officers contact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement only if the person is already going to jail on new charges or other warrants and a records check shows an administrative ICE warrant.
Subject of the injunction; government appeal pending
A federal judge in Los Angeles has barred ICE and Border Patrol agents from stopping people in Southern California because they appear Latino or Latino and working class. The preliminary injunction requires individualized reasonable suspicion before detaining someone.
Requested Bronx shelter resident names
A federal judge ruled on Nov. 6, 2026 that New York City must give U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement the names and birthdays of certain men living in its Bruckner Boulevard shelter in the Bronx. A special master will narrow the list to residents with serious criminal histories. Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that the city had not shown producing the list would be unduly burdensome.
Updated 4 days ago
Subject of the enforcement order
On November 2, U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai found that an ICE agent wrote a false account of an arrest in an official federal form, and that the agency had reported 11 warrantless arrests in Oregon when more had occurred. He withdrew the usual assumption that government officers have done their jobs honestly.
Assesses and enforces the penalties; receives prejudice claims
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has retroactively validated every immigration fine issued under its interim civil-penalty rules from June 27, 2025, through October 13, 2026. The October 26 notice covers penalties assessed under 8 CFR part 281, the procedure created by that interim rule. DHS issued it out of caution and says it does not mean the fines would have been invalid without it.
Updated Nov 1
Defendant
Four legal aid groups sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal court in Boston on October 28 over a policy that removed people with final deportation orders from the agency's public detainee locator. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, asks a judge to block the policy and to pause it while the case proceeds.
Updated Oct 31
Contracting agency; first orders placed
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a five-year, $125 million data analytics contract with Thomson Reuters Special Services on September 17. At signing the agreement showed $0.00 obligated; by October 9, federal spending records cited by the HAIA Foundation listed four orders signed September 29 worth about $7.2 million.
Updated Oct 21
Arrested and sought deportation of Sarsour
An immigration judge ruled Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin's largest mosque, can be deported on foreign policy grounds. The government argued his decades-old convictions in Israel make him a national security threat.
Updated Oct 20
As of October 2026: Defendant; subject of the challenged enforcement policies
A federal judge barred U.S. immigration officers from three enforcement practices after a U.S.-born concrete worker said agents detained him three times, twice at Alabama homebuilding sites and once at his home. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock ruled the policies likely violate the Fourth Amendment, noting agents dismissed his state REAL ID as 'fake.'
Updated Oct 11
As of October 2026: Target of the new California laws
California became the first state to tax private immigration detention centers when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a 25% levy and a package of companion laws on Sept. 29, escalating the state's fight with the Trump administration's deportation program. The laws also let Californians sue federal agents for constitutional violations, ban ICE from using electric shock gloves, and expand state investigations of detention facilities.
Updated Oct 1
As of September 2026: Without Senate-confirmed director since 2017
The White House withdrew Lance Schroyer's nomination to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on September 17, 2026. The former Oklahoma state trooper's confirmation stalled after Republican Senator Rand Paul blocked a hearing over fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Updated Sep 18
As of September 2026: Detention center plan stalled; property reportedly being offloaded
Salt Lake City's council voted Tuesday to make permanent a rule capping daily water use for new nonresidential buildings at 200,000 gallons. The limit, an emergency measure in place since March, was set to expire Sunday.
Updated Sep 15
As of September 2026: Increasing arrests of Haitians; began deportations in late August 2026
Harriett Cecilia Joseph built a life in Springfield, Ohio: a quality-control job, her own event-planning business. On a Monday in August, her work permit expired and her legal status vanished, the result of a Supreme Court ruling that let the Trump administration end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.
As of September 2026: Presence at courts, arrests
A San Francisco immigration judge says she was fired 48 hours after challenging ICE's detention of a migrant. "If you do something even small that they don't like, they're gonna fire you," she told Bay Area News.
Updated Sep 11
As of September 2026: Customer; awarded TRM a roughly $95 million contract
TRM Labs, a San Francisco company that traces illicit cryptocurrency, expanded its Series C round on September 9 at a $2 billion valuation, twice its February level. Blockchain Capital, which led a $70 million tranche in February, led this expansion too.
Updated Sep 10
As of September 2026: Agency responsible for the detention facility and reporting
Lianyong Wei, a 51-year-old Chinese national, was booked into immigration detention in Saipan on Aug. 22. He was found unresponsive during morning checks the next day and pronounced dead at a territorial hospital at 7:30 a.m. His death marks the 57th detainee fatality since President Trump's second term began in January 2025, and the 24th since Jan. 1, 2026.
Updated Sep 4
As of September 2026: Conducting enforcement and transfers from airports
A lounge inside San Francisco International Airport has become a makeshift holding cell. Immigration agents held 25 people there for more than three days this year, some in chairs under lights left on all night, with limited access to medical care, legal representation, or beds.
As of September 2026: Implementing agency-wide body camera program
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says it now has enough body cameras to equip every officer and agent. The announcement follows five years of delays, a February count of 3,000 cameras for 13,000 officers, and more than two dozen shootings as ICE arrests climbed under the Trump administration.
Updated Sep 3
As of June 2026: Largest recipient of the new funding
ICE and Border Patrol budgets normally have to be renegotiated every year, which gives both parties leverage during shutdown fights. Early Friday, the Senate voted 52-47 to fund them for three years straight, through the end of President Trump's term.
Updated Jun 5
As of May 2026: Federal agency that contracts with GEO Group
GEO Group has spent more than a decade fighting a lawsuit from roughly 60,000 immigration detainees at its Aurora, Colorado facility. They allege they were forced to perform janitorial work for one dollar a day — or nothing — under threat of solitary confinement. On February 25, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 against GEO's immunity claim; Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the company "must wait" for trial.
Updated May 29
As of May 2026: Separately funded, operations continue
The U.S. Senate passed a DHS funding bill by voice vote at 2:20 a.m. on March 27, 2026. It ends the partial shutdown that began February 14 for most agencies, but leaves out ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and most U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
As of May 2026: Primary agency conducting arrests
From December 4, 2025, to February 12, 2026, Minneapolis hosted Operation Metro Surge, the largest federal immigration enforcement operation in American history: 2,000 agents, 4,000+ arrests, two U.S. citizens fatally shot. On February 12, White House border czar Tom Homan announced the operation's conclusion, declaring Minnesota 'now less of a sanctuary state.'
Updated May 27
As of May 2026: Draws down 700 agents from Minnesota; Democrats demand operational reforms by Feb 13
A three-day partial government shutdown ended February 3 when the House passed a split funding package 217-214 and Trump signed it. The deal provides full-year appropriations for five agencies through September and extends DHS funding through February 13.
Updated May 23
As of May 2026: Acting Director Todd Lyons ordered to appear in federal court January 31 to face contempt allegations
The Department of Homeland Security deployed 3,000 federal agents to Minneapolis in what it calls the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history. Two months in, two U.S. citizens are dead: Renee Good, 37, shot January 7, and Alexander Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse, shot January 24; DHS claims self-defense in both cases, but witness videos contradict that.
As of May 2026: Detained Khalil; seeking deportation
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 gave the Secretary of State power to deport noncitizens whose presence threatens U.S. foreign policy. For seven decades, this Cold War-era statute gathered dust until March 8, 2025, when ICE arrested Mahmoud Khalil—a Columbia graduate student and green card holder—from his apartment for his role negotiating on behalf of pro-Palestinian protesters.
Updated May 21
As of May 2026: 700-agent drawdown implemented; school districts lawsuit filed; 22% student absence spike documented; jail-based cooperation model underway
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez denied Minnesota's request for a temporary restraining order against Operation Metro Surge on February 2, 2026. She cited insufficient proof of constitutional violations, though she acknowledged evidence of racial profiling and excessive force.
Updated May 20
As of May 2026: Under intense scrutiny after multiple shootings
ICE agent Jonathan Ross fired three shots in 700 milliseconds, killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in her car on a Minneapolis street. Good was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, standing with her wife to support neighbors during Trump's self-proclaimed "largest immigration operation ever"—2,000 federal agents deployed to Minnesota.
As of May 2026: Conducting largest enforcement operation in agency history
Three Minnesota congresswomen entered a Minneapolis ICE detention center on January 10 but were ordered out minutes later. They'd come three days after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in the head during what the Trump administration called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed a seven-day notice rule the day after Good's killing—a rule a federal judge had already blocked—and Judge Jia Cobb refused to block it on January 20.
As of May 2026: Conducting largest immigration operation in history
An ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good through her car window on a Minneapolis street January 7, killing the 37-year-old mother instantly. Federal officials claimed self-defense, saying Good weaponized her Honda Pilot to ram agents. But video shows something different: a woman slowly backing up and pulling forward, trying to leave, before an officer fires three shots into her head. "Having seen the video myself, that is bullshit," said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The shooter: Jonathan Ross, a 43-year-old deportation officer who was dragged fifty yards by a vehicle he tried to forcibly enter just six months earlier. Seventeen days later, on January 24, Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and legal gun owner. Video shows Pretti filming agents with his phone, getting pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground by six agents, then shot at least ten times. DHS claimed he was armed and violent. Video evidence again contradicts the official account. At least six federal prosecutors resigned in protest over how investigations were being handled—pressure to investigate victims' families rather than the shooters. On January 24, FBI agent Tracee Mergen, supervisor of the Public Corruption Squad in Minneapolis, resigned over pressure to "reclassify/discontinue the investigation" into Good's killing and focus instead on her widow Becca. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara noted that two of the city's three homicides in 2026 were committed by federal agents.
Updated May 19
As of May 2026: Conducting immigration enforcement operations in Chicago
The Supreme Court told President Trump he can't send National Guard troops to Illinois. The 6-3 decision on December 23 marks the first time the modern court has blocked a president from federalizing state Guard units over a governor's objections. Trump claimed protests at an ICE facility in suburban Chicago constituted a rebellion, and the court wasn't buying it.
Updated May 16
As of May 2026: Conducted Operation Midway Blitz and faces court limits on warrantless arrests
Federal agents flooded the Chicago area under “Operation Midway Blitz,” arresting thousands in a sweeping immigration crackdown. A little-known consent decree from an earlier ICE raid suddenly roared back to life, and a Chicago judge ordered hundreds of detainees released — until a divided appeals court slammed on the brakes.
Updated May 15
As of May 2026: Primary implementer of Trump’s mass deportation strategy
An ICE officer emailed a Colombian couple in Texas a choice no parent should face: board a deportation flight or risk a 10‑year prison sentence and losing their six‑year‑old to federal custody. They abandoned their trafficking victim visa case and were on a plane to Bogotá within weeks.
Updated May 11
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