| 2026-08-10 | ICE Solicits Up to $20M in Electric Shock Gloves Whose Manufacturer Warns They Can Cause 'Sudden Death'
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Human Rights Watch | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Lawfare Documents Three DHS AI Systems in Live Immigration Enforcement Without Independent Testing or Disclosure
2 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-26 | ICE, Forest Service and Caldwell County Sheriff Run Joint Operation at Wilson Creek in Pisgah National Forest, 13 Arrested; ICE Says the Forest Service Initiated Contact, the Forest Service Does Not Say
3 src U.S. Forest Service · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-20 | ICE Issues RFP for Detention at 14 More Sites as July Spending Hits Year-High $2.5B
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-16 | Judge Sykes Enjoins ICE Over Adelanto Conditions, Appoints Two Independent Monitors for Duration of Suit
3 src Lewis A. Kaplan · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · GEO Group · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-14 | ICE Posts Notice to Sole-Source $125M Data Contract to Thomson Reuters Special Services, Drops the Sole-Source Plan, Then Awards It After One Offer
5 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security | | reported |
| 2026-07-13 | Judge Howell: ICE Reversed Its No-Records Answer on Polling-Place FOIA Only After the DNC Cited Polling-Place Incidents; Orders 1,000 Pages a Month
4 src Beryl Howell · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Democratic National Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-06 | David Streever Sues DHS Secretary Mullin Over ICE 'Warning Notice' Served on His Wife for a Critical Email — Same-Day Second Notice to Syracuse's Paigelynne Gonyea, Two Documented Instances
9 src Markwayne Mullin · Todd Lyons · David J. Venturella · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1 |
| reported |
| 2026-06-30 | ICE Contracts a LaSalle Corrections Nonprofit for a 528-Bed Family 'Staging' Facility at the Nation's Largest Deportation Flight Hub
3 src LaSalle Corrections · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-24 | ACLU Documents 17 ICE Custody Deaths in 2026 as Warehouse Expansion Targets 96,600 Beds
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Vera Institute of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-22 | Gov. McKee Signs H7434/S3339, Barring ICE Agents Within 200 Feet of Rhode Island Polling Places
5 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-08 | ICE Orders ITIN Data Subscription From Thundercat for $9,968,353.56; After a D. Mass. Injunction on IRS-Sourced Return Information
6 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Internal Revenue Service · Colleen Kollar-Kotelly · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-08 | Salt Lake City and County Sue DHS/ICE to Block $145M Warehouse Conversion to Mega-Detention (Up to 10,000 Beds)
6 src Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-02 | DHS Inspector General Publishes OIG-26-08: Winn Correctional's March 2025 Unannounced Inspection Found Medical-Record, Use-of-Force and Sanitation Failures
1 src DHS Office of Inspector General · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · LaSalle Corrections | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-02 | Orange County FL Adopts Restricted ICE Basic Ordering Agreement with 48-Hour Cap, Stops Short of Full Exit
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-01 | Marshall Project: ICE Transfer-Opacity Tripled Under Trump; Immigrants 'Vanish' From Attorneys Into 5th Circuit
2 src ICE · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · The Marshall Project · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-30 | Marshall Project: ICE Detention Conditions at NJ Facilities Coerce 'Voluntary' Departures — 7x National Surge
2 src GEO Group · ICE · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Trump Administration · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-29 | ICE Awards $25M Sole-Source Contract to Bi2 for 1,570 Iris Scanners with Access to 5M-Record Private Database
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-20 | Federal Judge Certifies Three Nationwide Classes, Enjoins Arrests of U/T-Visa and VAWA Petitioners in ICWC v. Noem
3 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Public Counsel | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-20 | New Mexico Immigrant Safety Act HB9 Takes Effect, Barring Every Public Entity From ICE Detention Contracts
2 src Torrance County Commission · CoreCivic · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | Washington Post Documents 80,000+ Voluntary Departure Orders Under Trump; March 2026 Alone Hit 9,000 as Detention Coerces Asylum Abandonment
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Border Czar Homan Promises 'Mass Deportations Are Coming' at Phoenix Border Security Expo, Vows to 'Flood the Zone' in Sanctuary Jurisdictions
3 src Tom Homan · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Kathy Hochul | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | ICE 287(g) Funding Pipeline Reaches $137M Already Disbursed, $2B Projected for 2026 With Performance Bonuses for Immigration Arrests; 760+ Departments, 13,800-15,800 Officers Deputized
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | ICE Custody Deaths Hit 17 in First Four Months of 2026 (One Every Six Days); 152 New Detention Facilities Opened Across 39 States Since January 2025
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Detention Watch Network · Vera Institute of Justice · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-05 | Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons Admits He 'Didn't Know Some Countries Existed' That ICE Is Deporting Migrants To Under Third-Country Program
3 src Todd Lyons · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-05 | ICE Air Hits Record 1,794 Enforcement Flights in March 2026 — 122% Surge, First Removals to Moldova, Myanmar, Thailand
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-01 | CoreCivic's Sole-Source Direct Contract With ICE Takes Effect for Torrance and Cibola County Facilities, Bypassing New Mexico's HB9 Nineteen Days Before It Takes Effect
4 src CoreCivic · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Torrance County Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-29 | Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus Sues Richwood Correctional Center in Federal Court Over a Stillbirth in ICE Custody, Two Months Before DHS Publicly Calls the Account False
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tricia McLaughlin · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-23 | DHS Files Roxbury, NJ Warehouse Environmental Record Invoking Categorical Exclusions
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-21 | Eleventh Circuit Vacates the Alligator Alcatraz Preliminary Injunction
2 src Center for Biological Diversity · Florida Division of Emergency Management · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-16 | Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty Charges ICE Agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with Two Counts of Second-Degree Assault — First State Criminal Charge Against Federal Immigration Agent During Operation Metro Surge
4 src Mary Moriarty · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-01 | ImmigrationOS: ICE's $30M Palantir Platform Expands to Track U.S. Citizens via Medicaid, IRS, DMV Data
3 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · American Immigration Council | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-26 | Judge Brasel Grants Preliminary Injunction and Provisional Class for Minnesota Detainees; Keeps 72-Hour Transfer Hold; Government Appeals to Eighth Circuit
3 src The Advocates for Human Rights · L.H.M. · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-25 | NPR Documents the Data-Broker Loophole as FISA 702 Reauthorization Nears; Patel Declines to Rule Out Location Buys
4 src Kash Patel · Ron Wyden · Warren Davidson · Mike Lee · +7 | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-24 | Markwayne Mullin Sworn In as DHS Secretary After 54-45 Senate Confirmation; Immediately Pauses WEXMAC-TITUS Warehouse Detention Buildout
8 src Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · John Fetterman · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-22 | ICE Agents Deployed to 13 Major Airports as DHS Shutdown Enters Sixth Week and 400+ TSA Officers Quit
4 src Donald Trump · Tom Homan · AFGE · TSA · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-19 | DHS Sends Second Letter Continuing Section 106 Consultation on Williamsport ICE Warehouse After Maryland Historical Trust Asked for More Information
4 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Maryland Historical Trust | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-19 | Vermont Judge Orders Immediate Release of Man Detained by ICE in Case of Mistaken Identity
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | Internal DHS Document Reveals 'Project Homecoming' Self-Deportation Numbers Far Below Administration Claims
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | ICE Charter Flights Deport Approximately 15 Ukrainians to Poland-Ukraine Border via Shannon, Ireland
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | ICE Detention Population Hits 73,000 as Deaths Mount and Bipartisan Community Opposition Intensifies
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | NYC Health + Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz Discloses Palantir Contract Will Not Be Renewed, Claims 'Absolute Firewall' Against ICE Data Sharing
3 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-14 | 287(g) Agreements Expand to 1,547 Departments Across 39 States, Covering 77 Million Americans
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ACLU |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-14 | Canadian Mother and Autistic Daughter Detained by ICE at Texas Checkpoint Despite Valid Work Visa
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-12 | ICE Asks DOJ for State Voter Registration Lists for an HSI 'Voter Fraud Initiative'; DOJ Civil Rights Division Gives a DHS Counterpart Access Six Days Later
2 src Harmeet K. Dhillon · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-12 | ICE Reveals $38.3 Billion Detention Expansion Plan for 92,600-Bed Mega-Center Network
5 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-10 | Leavenworth Commission Votes 4-1 to Let CoreCivic Reopen the Prison a Judge Called a 'Hellhole'
3 src CoreCivic · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-10 | Washington Post Investigation Details How ICE Systematically Defied Court Orders During Minneapolis Enforcement Surge
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-07 | ICE Tells Court Its Minnesota Deployment Has Been Reduced to 47 Deportation Officers
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Jeffrey Bryan · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-05 | House Judiciary Committee Passes Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, Threatening Federal Funding Cuts
4 src House Judiciary Committee · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-05 | Second Minnesota Federal Judge Threatens Contempt Against Feds Over ICE Detainees' Missing Property
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · Jeffrey Bryan |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-04 | Internal ICE Data Exposes Vast Inflation in DHS Deportation Figures
4 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-04 | Judge Bryan Weighs Contempt for U.S. Attorney Rosen Over ICE Property Seizures
2 src Jeffrey Bryan · Daniel Rosen · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | Judge Bryan Holds Contempt Hearing, Warns U.S. Attorney Rosen That Imprisonment Is Not Ruled Out
7 src Jeffrey Bryan · Daniel Rosen · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | New Jersey Federal Judge Threatens Criminal Contempt After ICE Violates Transfer Orders 17 Times
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | Wyden, Espaillat and Colleagues Demand DHS IG Investigate Warrantless Location-Data Purchases by ICE
5 src Ron Wyden · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · DHS Office of Inspector General · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-02 | Hennepin County Launches Transparency and Accountability Project to Investigate Federal Agents in Operation Metro Surge
6 src Mary Moriarty · Greg Bovino · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | Chief Judge Schiltz Issues Written Order Documenting 210+ ICE Court Violations, Threatens Criminal Contempt
5 src Patrick Schiltz · Todd Lyons · Daniel Rosen · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-19 | ICE Expands to Twin Cities Suburbs Using Covert Tactics, Palantir ELITE Neighborhood Targeting
8 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-12 | Judge Brasel Grants TRO in Part: One Hour to Reach a Phone, a 72-Hour Bar on Out-of-State Transfer, Lawyer Visits at the Whipple Building
2 src The Advocates for Human Rights · L.H.M. · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-10 | Maryland Historical Trust Asks DHS for More Information on Whether the Wright Road Relocation Is Part of the Williamsport ICE Project, After Concurring in DHS's No-Effect Finding
2 src Maryland Historical Trust · Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-01-27 | The Advocates for Human Rights and a Detained Woman File Class Action Over Access to Counsel at the Whipple Building
2 src The Advocates for Human Rights · L.H.M. · Kristi Noem · Todd Lyons · +5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-24 | Bondi Demands Minnesota Voter Rolls, Welfare Records and ICE Cooperation in One Letter to Gov. Walz
4 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Minnesota · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-20 | Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley says ICE agents stopped off-duty officers of color during Operation Metro Surge
6 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-15 | Bradford County FL Commissioners Vote 3-2 to Advance Sabot IGSA Proposal for 3,000-Bed ICE Detention Campus
5 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-14 | Washington County Receives DHS Historic-Preservation Letter Proposing a 'No Historic Properties Affected' Finding for the Williamsport ICE Warehouse Before the Deed
5 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-01-12 | DHS Sends Maryland Historical Trust a Letter That Initiates Consultation and Proposes a 'No Historic Properties Affected' Finding for the Williamsport Warehouse
3 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Maryland Historical Trust | | reported |
| 2026-01-08 | Alberto Castaneda Mondragon Hospitalized at HCMC With Catastrophic Head Injury After ICE Arrest; Lawsuit Alleges Agents Beat Him
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-30 | DHS Announces Record Immigration Enforcement Numbers, Promotes Self-Deportation Incentive
4 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Kristi Noem |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-28 | Washington Post Analysis Reveals ICE Shift from Jail Arrests to Community Raids
8 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2025-10-29 | DOJ Indicts Democratic Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh for ICE Facility Protest
3 src Kat Abughazaleh · Department of Justice · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Trump Administration |
| reported |
| 2025-10-22 | DHS Uses Multi-Year Reconciliation Funding to Pay 70,000 Immigration Enforcement Officers During Shutdown While 700,000 Federal Workers Go Unpaid
3 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-30 | Federal Agents Raid South Shore Chicago Apartment Building With About 300 Agents and a Helicopter, Detain 37; No One Charged Criminally
4 src Gregory Bovino · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · +2 | | reported |
| 2025-09-30 | ICE Awards $1.4 Billion in Surveillance Contracts in Single Month, Highest in 18 Years
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| reported |
| 2025-09-12 | ICE agent fatally shoots Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park; Cook County rules homicide as bodycam contradicts DHS account
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-08 | San Francisco Police Allowed 1.6 Million Illegal License Plate Searches by ICE and Out-of-State Agencies
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · American Civil Liberties Union | | reported |
| 2025-07-04 | OBBBA Signed — $45B ICE Detention + $29.85B Enforcement Appropriations Through FY2029 Fund $38.3B Detention Reengineering Initiative
7 src Donald Trump · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Congress |
| reported |
| 2025-06-17 | Wyden, Goldman, Velázquez Letter to Palantir CEO Karp Demands Answers on ICE Surveillance Tools
3 src Ron Wyden · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-21 | Allegheny County Courthouse ICE Arrest Handoff Protocol Activated as ICE Begins Targeting Pittsburgh Courts
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2025-02-06 | ICE-Bureau of Prisons Agreement Signed Naming Miami, Atlanta, Leavenworth and Philadelphia; MDC Brooklyn Not Listed
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2019-05-13 | Nielsen and Vitiello Block White House Plan to Arrest ~10,000 Migrant Parents and Children Across 10 Cities
3 src Kirstjen Nielsen · Stephen Miller · Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2018-08-01 | 200+ Palantir Employees Sign Letter Protesting Company's ICE Contracts; External Protesters Demonstrate
4 src Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tech Workers Coalition |
| confirmed |