Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 4339 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

4339 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Nov 3, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-09-11Gilroy and Williamsport ICE-Facility Injunctions Rest on the Same Legal Theory: a NEPA Categorical Exclusion Invoked Then Found Arbitrary and Capricious 2 src
Rob Bonta · Anthony G. Brown · State of Maryland · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +2
confirmed
2026-09-11ICE Exercises Option Adding $756,517.54 to TechOps 'Cell Site Simulator Vehicles' Order, Cumulative Obligation $2,400,647.17 5 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-09-11ICE Turn-key Detention Solicitation Covers Four AORs on 10-Year IDIQs; Deadline Extended to Sept 14 8 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
reported
2026-09-11MS NOW reports Matryoshka (Storm-1679) campaign of CNN-branded, voice-cloned celebrity videos urging a vote against Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterms 2 src
CNN
confirmed
2026-09-10Anthropic's September 2026 threat report says it removed a Claude account run for a Russian operation in the Central African Republic and links the actor to Politology 2 src
Anthropic
confirmed
2026-09-10DHS Opens Bidding on $440.7 Million Governmentwide Contract for Fingerprint, Face, Iris and Palm Capture Devices 3 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-10DHS Release Says a Peruvian National in Wichita Pleaded Guilty Under Kansas Law; the Federal Indictment Charges Voting by an Alien and the Court Record Shows No Plea 2 srcreported
2026-09-10DOJ Sends 29 States and DC Election-Record Preservation Letters Warning of Criminal Sanctions 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division
confirmed
2026-09-10Government Describes CUC Keyhole on the Record: a 2008 HSI St. Paul Funding Vehicle, 77 Investigations 4 src
Homeland Security Investigations · Isaac Sant
confirmed
2026-09-10Joe diGenova Resigns as Head of DOJ's Florida "Grand Conspiracy" Probe After Clashes Over Its Pace; Probe Has Brought No Charges 3 src
Joseph DiGenova · Todd Blanche · Maria Medetis Long
confirmed
2026-09-10LULAC, UnidosUS, Common Cause and Denver Sue DHS Over Armed ICE Officers at Polling Places 5 src
League of United Latin American Citizens · Common Cause · City and County of Denver · Markwayne Mullin · +3
confirmed
2026-09-10No Going Back PAC Put $21.7 Million Into Seven Weekly TV Buys Against El-Sayed, Sept 10 to Oct 21 1 srcreported
2026-09-10Sonoma Sanctuary Coalition Pickets a Sheriff's Foundation Fundraiser Over ICE Notifications; Watchdog Counted 325 Requests, 46 Answered, 21 Arrests 3 srcconfirmed
2026-09-10Trump Led RNC Midterm Convention Crowd in a Pledge That Included the Line 'I'm Gonna Try and Cheat Like Hell Like They Do' 3 src
Donald Trump · Republican National Committee
reported
2026-09-10USCIS Swears It Has Shared No State Citizenship List Data With Any State; Placeholder Portal Page Was Live Since June 10 3 src
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Social Security Administration · Department of Homeland Security · Electronic Privacy Information Center
confirmed
2026-09-09Clearfield County Tables DHS Six-Month Moshannon Extension to Sept 22; Facility Pays $688K in Taxes, County Gets $200K 6 src
Clearfield County Board of Commissioners · GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-09Commerce Proposes Excluding Non-Green-Card Immigrants From 2030 Apportionment, Cutting Race Questions 5 src
U.S. Department of Commerce · U.S. Census Bureau · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-09DHS Emails Pennsylvania on Sept. 9: It Will Send the List, and the State Should Review Each of 14,576 1 src
Al Schmidt · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-09ICSID Admits Crawfish Rock Leaders and OFRANEH as Amici in Próspera v. Honduras 4 srcreported
2026-09-09Jimmy Kimmel Live Does Not Broadcast Talarico Interview and Moves It to YouTube; Kimmel Says the FCC Has Threatened His Show 2 src
James Talarico · ABC · The Walt Disney Company · Federal Communications Commission · +2
confirmed
2026-09-09Politico Reports US NATO Ambassador Whitaker Asked Allies to Leave the Rome Statute 1 src
Marco Rubio · International Criminal Court · Tomoko Akane
reported
2026-09-09SLF's Own Filing Shows Musk's $158 Million Passed Straight to Texas PAC, $75M on Sept 10 and $83M on Sept 24 2 srcreported
2026-09-09St. Paul Asylum Seeker With Work Permit and No Criminal Record Sent to Guantánamo's Camp Six 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-09Trump Promises $5,000 'Dividend' to Every Adult Citizen, Conditioned on Republicans Holding Both Chambers 5 src
Donald Trump · JD Vance · Republican Party
confirmed
2026-09-08404 Media Names PITT: Border Patrol Teams Scoring Americans' Finances, Routing Stops Through State Police 3 src
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol
confirmed
2026-09-08D.C. Circuit Affirms the Block on the IRS Procedure That Sent Taxpayer Addresses to ICE (Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS) 3 src
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Internal Revenue Service · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-08Intercept FOIA Suit Releases 400+ Pages on Pentagon AI Contracts; Refusal-Minimizing Language Disputed 2 src
The Intercept · Department of Defense · OpenAI · Anthropic · +3
confirmed
2026-09-08Levy County FL Adopts Ordinance 2026-05, a One-Year Moratorium on Data Centers and Power-Intensive Facilities 4 srcconfirmed
2026-09-07Ballotpedia Logs 27 Article III Vacancies as the Court-Expansion Debate Resurfaces Before the Midterms 2 srcconfirmed
2026-09-06DHS Retains Contractor for Surprise AZ Environmental Review; GardaWorld Deal Worth $700M With Extensions 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Kris Mayes · GardaWorld Federal Services
confirmed
2026-09-05Forest Service Rangers Accompany ICE in Arrest of Five Men Camping With Their Families in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest 3 src
U.S. Forest Service · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-05MAGA Inc. Ran Five Buys of $5 Million or More Against Talarico, Sept 5 to Oct 22 1 srcreported
2026-09-04ICE Holds a Frederick MD Neighborhood for About 40 Hours, Then Drives Onto Sidewalks and Batons Residents Blocking a Home 5 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-04ICE Officer Castro Charged With Six False-Statement Counts; Unsealed Indictment Says He Fired Through a Closing Door 4 src
Christian Castro · Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · +1
confirmed
2026-09-04ICE Signs $9.9M Sole-Source Caretaker Task Order to Maintain the Williamsport Warehouse a Court Barred It From Opening 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · KVG LLC · State of Maryland
confirmed
2026-09-04Seven Vermont Clergy Arrested Blockading the NCATC, the ICE Targeting Center in Williston 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-09-04Supreme Court Grants Stay of Fourth Circuit Ruling That Set Aside FCC Party Ad-Rate Notice, Citing Likely No Jurisdiction 2 src
Federal Communications Commission · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Congressional Committee · National Republican Senatorial Committee · +1
confirmed
2026-09-04Talwani Preliminarily Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Citing a Final Rule Issued Fewer Than Seventy Days Before the Election 4 src
Indira Talwani · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
confirmed
2026-09-04Trump Tells Reporters in the Oval Office He Is Allocating Probably $400 to $500 Million of MAGA Inc. Money 1 src
Donald Trump · MAGA Inc. · Campaign Legal Center
confirmed
2026-09-03DHS Moves to Offload Seven of Its Eleven ICE Warehouses and Pivots to Reopening Shuttered Prisons 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin
confirmed
2026-09-03DOJ Files Its Second SCOTUS Emergency Application on the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, 61 Days Before Midterms 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-03ICE Officers Without Completed Background Checks Are Issued Palantir's ELITE App, Officials Tell Intercept 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-03Judge Boardman Blocks Trump's Second Birthright-Citizenship Order: 'No Presidential Executive Order Can Undo What the Supreme Court Has Done' 3 src
Donald Trump · Supreme Court of the United States
confirmed
2026-09-03Michigan Supreme Court Denies Mandamus, Killing Proof-of-Citizenship Ballot Measure Hours After SCOTUS Also Declines to Intervene 5 src
Brett Kavanaugh
confirmed
2026-09-03Vance Takes the Podium After a 42-Day Briefing Gap; Press Secretary Post Left Vacant 4 src
JD Vance · Karoline Leavitt · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-09-02House Defeats Keep Nine Amendment 212-206, Far Short of the Two-Thirds Needed 3 src
Mike Johnson · Hakeem Jeffries · U.S. House of Representatives
confirmed
2026-09-02Leaked Memo Discloses ICE Contract With ZeroFox to Scrub Agent Identities From the Web 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · David Venturella · Homeland Security Investigations
confirmed
2026-09-02Mega Master Calendars Reach Miami as In-Absentia Deportation Orders There Double, 1,383 to 2,886 4 src
Executive Office for Immigration Review · U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-09-02The Atlantic Reports ClipIt's "Elephant Clipping" Campaign Paying Clippers a Share of a $300,000 Monthly Budget to Post Pro-Republican Clips 3 srcreported
2026-09-01Bulloch County GA Rejects a Permanent Data-Center Ban 4-3 on the Chairman's Tiebreaker, Keeping the Moratorium and Seating a 21-Person Citizen Group 2 srcconfirmed
2026-09-01CalPrivacy Fines Data Broker SalesIntel Research $36,400 for Failing to Register on Time 2 src
California Privacy Protection Agency
confirmed
2026-09-01Court-Appointed Monitor Stands By Findings After CoreCivic and Federal Defendants Object to California City Detention Report 1 src
CoreCivic · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-01Dakota County MN Commissioners Asked to Pledge Noncompliance With Federal Mail-Ballot Restrictions; Two of Seven Respond, No Vote Taken 1 src
United States Postal Service
confirmed
2026-09-01DHS Launches HSI Voter-Fraud Surge in Nine States Through Mid-October 6 src
Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-01Fetterman Letter Demands ICE Pay $236,124.91 Owed to Moshannon Valley EMS, Sets Sept 15 Response Deadline 4 src
John Fetterman · David J. Venturella · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-09-01ICE Names New York's Sanctuary Law in Writing as the Reason for a 100-Bed Hard-Sided Buildout at Batavia 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-09-01Interior Judge Stays the First Data Center Approved on BLM Public Land After a Solar Right-of-Way Was Amended Without Environmental Review 2 src
Bureau of Land Management
disputed
2026-09-01MAGA Inc. Sent $200 Million to No Going Back PAC in Six Transfers, Sept 1 to Oct 13 2 srcreported
2026-09-01Maryland Delegation Members Push Back on ICE Plans for Warehouse Detention in Washington County 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-09-01Mullin Tells Reporters in New York ICE Would Be at Polling Places Only for a Threat or a Warrant 2 src
Markwayne Mullin · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-09-01USPS Whistleblower Alleges Ballot-Vetting System Built in Weeks and Work Continued After Court Order 4 src
Richard Blumenthal · David Steiner · U.S. Postal Service · Indira Talwani
confirmed
2026-08-31Cities Church Defendants Move to Dismiss, Alleging Selective FACE Act Prosecution and 92 DHS Customs Summonses 2 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Department of Justice · Don Lemon · +2
confirmed
2026-08-31Dougherty County GA Extends Its Data-Center Moratorium 180 Days, Unanimously, With Officials Saying There Is No Ceiling on Extensions 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-31Joint Chiefs Chairman Tells Sen. Slotkin the Joint Force Has No Plans to Send Troops to Polling Places in 2026 1 src
Dan Caine · Elissa Slotkin
confirmed
2026-08-31North Port FL Advances an 18-Month Data-Center Moratorium 4-1 After Seven Hours and About 400 Public Comments 5 srcconfirmed
2026-08-31NYU and Berkeley Report on Threats Against Federal Judges: Attacks Are Changing How the Job Gets Done 3 src
U.S. Marshals Service
confirmed
2026-08-31Post Reports Three Online-Influencer Retired Colonels Held Pentagon SGE/HQE Roles in Tata's Office; Tata Says They Served on a War-College Task Force, Pay Not Disclosed 3 src
Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2026-08-31TRAC Reports 279 Immigration Judges Fired or Resigned in FY2025–FY2026 (38% Turnover) as Asylum Denials Hit 94% 2 src
Executive Office for Immigration Review · Donald Trump
reported
2026-08-31White House Announces Venezuela Oil Deal Built on NABEP, the Betancourt-Led Producer That Holds 100-Year Concessions on 17 Fields 4 srcreported
2026-08-30Barber County KS Approves Google's 1.7M-Square-Foot Project Helium 2-0-1, With Full Ad Valorem Taxes, $5.5M in Community Payments and a Ban on New Water Wells 2 src
Google
confirmed
2026-08-30ICE Arrests 121 at Memphis Nightclub in Operation Corral Light, Second-Largest Single-Day Raid of 2026 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-08-30ICE's Own Roster (As of Aug. 30, 2026) Shows Kentucky at 55 287(g) MOAs Across 53 Agencies — Growth Is Voluntary-Plus-Financial-Incentive, Not the Failed Legislative Mandate 7 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-08-30New York Times: Political Influencer Payments Fall Into a Legal Gray Area in 2026 Midterms 1 src
New York Times
confirmed
2026-08-29Aug 3 NDNY 287(g)-Adjacent Ruling Confirmed as United States v. Russo (Not 'v. State of New York'); Nassau's Two ICE Agreements Still on ICE's Own Roster Three Days After Blakeman's Termination Announcement 6 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Kathy Hochul · Letitia James · +4
confirmed
2026-08-29Guardian Documents DHS Using a Customs-Import Statute, 19 U.S.C. § 1509, to Take Journalists' Phone Records and Union Financial Records Without a Judge 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Georgia Fort · Don Lemon · T-Mobile · +4
confirmed
2026-08-29Operation Rotten Apple Ends With 2,197 New York Arrests; DOJ Attorney Says the Point Was to 'Send a Message' to Employers, None of Whom Were Charged 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Kathy Hochul
confirmed
2026-08-28Boelter Notifies Court He Will Argue the Hortman Killings Were a Justifiable Taking of Life in a Citizen's Arrest 2 srcconfirmed
2026-08-28DHS Reported to Have Hired Election-Denial Activist Karen DiSalvo; the Letter Democracy Docket Tied to Her Is Mullin's Aug. 24 Letter to the White House Transparency Task Force 1 src
Heather Honey · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-08-28HSI Domestic Operations Broadcast to All Special Agents in Charge Launches Voter-Fraud Surge at AD Krol's Request; Now in the California Nurses Amended Record 1 src
Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security
reported
2026-08-28ICE Puts Twelve Somali Men on a Plane Told They Were Bound for Somalia; They Landed at Guantanamo Bay 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-08-28ICE Solicits a $10–25M No-Bid Expansion of the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility at Batavia, NY 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-08-28ICE's Own Live Roster Confirms Nine of Twelve New York 287(g) Agencies Terminated; NDNY Docket for the Aug 3 Injunction Denial Identified as 26-cv-1360 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Rensselaer County · Kyle Bourgault · Nassau County · +3
confirmed
2026-08-28More Than 1.2 Million Texas Voter Registrations Flagged to the Suspense List Ahead of the November Midterms 3 src
Texas Secretary of State
confirmed
2026-08-28OMB Approves Pentagon Emergency Removal of the Never-Resided Checkbox From the Overseas Voter Form; DNC Sues Oct. 1 2 src
Democratic National Committee · Pentagon
confirmed
2026-08-28SCOTUS Lifts the Block on Trump's Mail-Voting Order as Premature; the USPS Rule Takes Effect, North Carolina Complies First, and Talwani Blocks It Again 1 src
Indira Talwani · Ketanji Brown Jackson · U.S. Postal Service · North Carolina State Board of Elections
confirmed
2026-08-28Thousands Rally at the Lincoln Memorial for 'Defend the Vote' on the March on Washington's 63rd Anniversary 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-27Elkhart Indiana Council Votes 9-0 to Stop Accepting Data-Center and Battery-Storage Applications Through 2027 3 srcconfirmed
2026-08-27GardaWorld's San Antonio Detention-Conversion Order on Navy Contract N0002325D0032 Stands at $61,829,037.54 Obligated and $1,008,135,768.12 Potential; Saltbox Reported $17.3 Million and Said DHS Had Stopped Using the Program 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GardaWorld Federal Services · Markwayne Mullin · Elizabeth Warren · +1
confirmed
2026-08-27HSI Agent Uploads March 2026 Surveillance Reports to ICM on the Day of the Sant Discovery Hearing
Katherine Wespetal · Homeland Security Investigations · Sunrise Movement
confirmed
2026-08-27HSI Official Declares He Cannot Confirm or Deny Investigations at Other Protected Churches; DHS Tells the Court RFRA Does Not Prevent Undercover Investigations at Places of Worship 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · F. Dennis Saylor IV
confirmed
2026-08-27ICE Agent Christian Castro Walks Free in Texas After Abbott Sits on Minnesota's Extradition Warrant for 90 Days 4 src
Christian Castro · Greg Abbott · Tim Walz · Keith Ellison · +2
confirmed
2026-08-27ICE Solicits $1M-$2M for Boston Dynamics SPOT Robots, Citing 'Situational Awareness' in High-Risk Environments 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-08-27Judge Lin Rules the Pentagon's Anthropic 'Supply Chain Risk' Designation Unlawful Retaliation Under the First Amendment 4 src
Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2026-08-27KSAT Reports ICE Awarded GardaWorld $17.3 Million for East Side San Antonio Warehouse Conversion; USAspending Now Lists $61,829,037.54 Obligated and $1,008,135,768.12 Potential 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GardaWorld Federal Services · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-08-27Minnesota 15 Defense Argues DOJ Has Forfeited the Presumption of Regularity at Discovery Hearing on Surveillance Materials 1 src
Kevin Riach · Isaac Sant · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-08-27New Evidence Contradicts DHS 'Fact Check' That an ICE-Detained Woman Received 'FULL' Prenatal Care Before a Stillbirth 1 src
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · The Intercept
confirmed
2026-08-27New York's August 25 287(g) Deadline Passes: State Sues Rensselaer Directly, Corrected 12-Agency Roster Shows Federal Court Already Denied a DOJ Injunction 6 src
New York Office of Immigrant Trust · Letitia James · Kathy Hochul · Kyle Bourgault · +6
confirmed
2026-08-27OCC and FDIC Finalize a Rule Requiring Supervisory Objections to Tie to Material Financial Risk, Narrowing 'Unsafe or Unsound Practice' 1 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
confirmed
2026-08-27ProPublica Documents Pinellas County Jail Rebooking Immigrants to Hold Them Past a 72-Hour IGSA Limit — One Woman Held 26 Days 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ProPublica
confirmed
2026-08-27Rokita-Marté Consent Decree Settles the Policy Language but Expressly Leaves the ICE-Detainer Question for an October 27 Hearing 5 srcconfirmed