Civil Rights Suppression
The Civil Rights Suppression capture lane traces 319 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-09 | Houston ISD Soccer Captain Mauro Henriquez Deported to Honduras After Four Months in ICE Detention Mauro Henriquez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Houston ISD | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-08 | ICE Data Reveals 1,300 'Collateral' Arrests During Operation Metro Surge -- 35% of All Minnesota Detentions Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-03 | Michael Edison Hayden Reveals SPLC Gutted Its Intelligence Project Before Trump's Return, Leaving Far-Right Monitoring Degraded Michael Edison Hayden · Southern Poverty Law Center · Kash Patel · FBI | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-01 | Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-26 | Ohio House Passes "Indecent Exposure Modernization Act" That Critics Say Could Criminalize Sports Bras and Cheerleading Uniforms Ohio House of Representatives · Equality Ohio | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-18 | Federal Court Permanently Blocks Trump Administration's DEI Ban in Schools Nationwide Judge Landya McCafferty · U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire · American Civil Liberties Union · ACLU of New Hampshire · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-02 | GAO Report Reveals Education Department Paid $38M to Idled Civil Rights Staff U.S. Government Accountability Office · U.S. Department of Education · Linda McMahon · Bernie Sanders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Dhillon Refocuses Civil Rights Division on Voter Fraud as 70% of Staff Exit Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-22 | Whistleblowers Reveal Secret ICE Memo Authorizing Agents to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants Todd Lyons · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kristi Noem · Richard Blumenthal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | ICE Launches Operation Catch of the Day in Maine Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Janet Mills | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Whistleblowers Expose ICE Policy Authorizing Warrantless Home Entries Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | ACLU Files Class Action Against ICE for Racial Profiling in Minnesota American Civil Liberties Union · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Federal Judge Rules ICE Violated Fourth Amendment by Breaking Into Minneapolis Home Without Judicial Warrant Jeffrey Bryan · Garrison Gibson · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tricia McLaughlin | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | DHS Whistleblower Leaks Personal Data of 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol Agents DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | DOJ Civil Rights Division Leaders Mass Resign Over Refusal to Investigate Renee Good Killing Harmeet Dhillon · Joseph H. Thompson · Jim Felte · Todd Blanche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Internal Documents Reveal ICE Agents Afraid of Minneapolis Deployment After Good Shooting DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Supreme Court Hears Transgender Sports Ban Cases, Signals Support for Restrictions U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Samuel Alito · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-10 | ICE Detains Five Native Americans in Minneapolis Based on Appearance, Tribal Leaders Condemn Racial Profiling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Oglala Sioux Tribe · Red Lake Nation · Frank Star Comes Out · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Border Patrol Agent Shoots Two People in Portland, Oregon, Over 270 Miles From Border U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Luis David Nico Moncada · Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | CBP Agents Tackle and Detain Two U.S. Citizen Teenagers at Richfield Target Store U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Jonathan Aguilar Garcia · Christian Miranda Romano | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | FBI Revokes State Access to Evidence in Renee Good Shooting, Blocks Minnesota Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation · Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension · Bob Jacobson · JD Vance · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Minneapolis Public Schools Cancel Classes, Offer Remote Learning Through February Due to ICE Operations Minneapolis Public Schools · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | Border Patrol Agents Pepper Spray Students at Roosevelt High School During Dismissal U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Roosevelt High School · Minneapolis Public Schools | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | ICE Agent Kills Legal Observer Renee Nicole Good During Minneapolis Raid Jonathan Ross · Renee Nicole Good · Greg Bovino · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | Vice President Vance Announces ICE Will Go 'Door to Door' for Mass Deportations JD Vance · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Fox News | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | DHS Announces "Largest Immigration Operation Ever" Deploying 2,000 Agents to Minneapolis Kristi Noem · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | DHS Deploys 2,000 Federal Agents to Minneapolis in 'Largest Immigration Operation Ever' Kristi Noem · Stephen Miller · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-02 | Trump Threatens Military Intervention in Iran Protests, Says US 'Locked and Loaded' Donald Trump · Iranian Government | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | Trump Administration Sets Quota to Strip Citizenship from Over 1,000 Naturalized Americans in 2026 Stephen Miller · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Ilhan Omar · Zohran Mamdani | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | Off-Duty ICE Officer Shoots and Kills Keith Porter in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve Keith Porter · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · LAPD | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | US Press Freedom Tracker Documents 170 Assaults on Journalists in 2025, 160 by Law Enforcement U.S. Press Freedom Tracker · Freedom of the Press Foundation · Federal law enforcement · ICE · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-30 | DHS Announces Record Immigration Enforcement Numbers, Promotes Self-Deportation Incentive U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-28 | ICE Agents Enter Minneapolis Hospital Without Warrant, Handcuff Patient to Bed for 24 Hours Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Hennepin County Medical Center | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-28 | Mass Protests Erupt Across Iran as Economic Collapse Triggers Largest Uprising Since 1979 Iranian Bazaari Merchants · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · Ali Khamenei | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-28 | Washington Post Analysis Reveals ICE Shift from Jail Arrests to Community Raids U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-26 | DHS Implements Mandatory Biometric Collection for All Non-Citizens at U.S. Borders U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | DHS Releases Year-End Report Claiming 'Most Secure Border in History' While Touting 2.5 Million Departures and Record Drug Seizures Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | Noem Increases Self-Deportation Incentive to $3,000, Promotes 'Home for the Holidays' Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | Border Patrol Academy Reaches Highest Enrollment Since 2009 With 1,100 Trainees as Trump Administration Militarizes Enforcement Training U.S. Border Patrol · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-16 | Border Patrol Chief Bovino Returns to Chicago, Promises Federal Agents 'For Years' Gregory Bovino · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-16 | ICE Launches Operation Buckeye in Ohio, Targeting Afghan Refugees Who Fled Taliban and Entered Through Legal CBP One Program Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Andrew Ginther · Elaine Bryant · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-15 | Seven Die in ICE Custody in December, Four Within Four Days, Deadliest Year Since 2004 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Jean Wilson Brutus · Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-14 | ICE Detention Population Hits All-Time Record of 68,400 -- 75% Increase Since January Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-11 | Stephen Miller Attacks 1965 Civil Rights Immigration Law, Suggests America Better Off with 1920s Racial Quotas Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-09 | Department of Justice Eliminates 50-Year-Old Disparate Impact Standard from Civil Rights Enforcement, Requiring Proof of Intentional Discrimination Pam Bondi · Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | Human Rights Groups Document Systematic Torture at Fort Bliss Immigration Detention Facility: 45+ Detainees Report Beatings, Sexual Abuse, Crushed Testicles, and Coerced Deportations Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · American Civil Liberties Union · Human Rights Watch · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-06 | National Park Service Removes MLK Day and Juneteenth from Fee-Free Days, Adds Trump's Birthday Interior Department · National Park Service · Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | NPR First Amendment Lawsuit Against Trump Reaches Pivotal Court Hearing on Retaliatory Funding Cuts NPR · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss · +11 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | Trump Official Signals Rollback of Census Racial Categories to Erase Marginalized Communities from Federal Data Mark Calabria · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Census Bureau · Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | American Alliance for Equal Rights Sues Hispanic Scholarship Fund Seeking to Eliminate Race-Conscious Scholarships American Alliance for Equal Rights · Edward Blum · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · U.S. District Court for D.C. | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Amnesty International documents torture and enforced disappearances at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome detention facilities Amnesty International · Amy Fischer · Ana Piquer · Ron DeSantis · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | DHS Announces Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, Largest Immigration Enforcement Operation in U.S. History Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Customs and Border Protection (CBP) · Kristi Noem · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | DOJ Orders Prison Auditors to Eliminate PREA Rape Protections for Transgender Inmates Department of Justice · Bureau of Justice Assistance · Bureau of Prisons · American Civil Liberties Union · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | DOJ Seeks to Detain Jan 6 Pardoned Defendant Taylor Taranto After Surveilling Rep. Jamie Raskin's Neighborhood Taylor Taranto · Rep. Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | ICE Escalates Operations Targeting Somali Immigrants in Minnesota Following Trump's Attacks on Community Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Somali American Community · Tim Walz · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Illinois Secretary of State Warns Federal Immigration Agents and Rental Companies That License Plate Tampering Violates State Law Alexi Giannoulias · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Gov. JB Pritzker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Supreme Court Reinstates Texas Mid-Decade Congressional Map Designed for Republican Advantage Despite Racial Gerrymandering Findings Supreme Court of the United States · Greg Abbott · Donald Trump · Texas Legislature · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Trump Reduces Work Permit Validity to 18 Months Citing Single DC Shooting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Joseph Edlow · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Rahmanullah Lakanwal · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Veterans Warn Trump's Afghan Asylum Freeze Endangers U.S. Allies and Undermines Future Military Partnerships Donald Trump · Shawn VanDiver · Thomas Kasza · Afghan Evac Coalition · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | Bovino Launches 'Operation Catahoula Crunch' in New Orleans, Texts 'We Are a Massive Wrecking Crew' Gregory Bovino · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | University of Alabama Shutters Black and Female Student Magazines Under DEI Directives University of Alabama · Steven Hood · Pamela Bondi · Alice Magazine · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | Veterans Affairs Creates Database of Non-Citizen Employees for Deportation Targeting Doug Collins · Veterans Affairs · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-28 | Trump Announces 'Permanent Pause' on Immigration from 'Third World Countries' Using Racist Terminology Donald Trump · Joseph Edlow · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-11-26 | DOJ Reveals Kristi Noem Made Final Decision to Defy Judge's Order on El Salvador Deportation Flights Kristi Noem · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-21 | North Dakota Supreme Court Reinstates Near-Total Abortion Ban Despite Unconstitutionality Finding North Dakota Supreme Court · Justice Jerod E. Tufte · Chief Justice Jon J. Jensen · Judge Bruce Romanick · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-15 | Bovino Launches 'Operation Charlotte's Web' in North Carolina, 250+ Arrests as 30,000 Students Stay Home Gregory Bovino · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Garry McFadden | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-07 | Cornell University Agrees to Pay $60 Million and Accept Federal Oversight to Restore Research Funding Cornell University · Michael Kotlikoff · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-11-04 | DOJ Escalates Investigation of 66-Year-Old Activist for Distributing Stephen Miller Protest Fliers U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Secret Service · Barbara Wien · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-04 | Memphis Residents Report Widespread Racial Profiling by Trump's Federal Police Task Force U.S. Marshals Service · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Guard · Memphis Safe Task Force | reported | |
| 2025-10-30 | ICE Agents Shoot U.S. Citizen Carlos Jimenez Near Los Angeles School Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Carlos Jimenez | reported | |
| 2025-10-29 | DOJ Indicts Democratic Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh for ICE Facility Protest Kat Abughazaleh · Department of Justice · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Catherine Sharp · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-25 | ICE Deports Man to Laos Despite Federal Court Order Blocking Removal, Ignoring Torture and Persecution Risk Chanthila "Shawn" Souvannarath · Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick · ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) · ACLU of Louisiana · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Prioritizes White South Africans in Refugee Admissions Trump Administration · State Department · pro-Afrikaner advocacy groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Trump Posts AI Video Dumping Feces on 7 Million "No Kings" Protesters, Defended by Johnson and Vance as "Satire" Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · JD Vance · Kenny Loggins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Supreme Court Reargues Louisiana v. Callais, Threatens Voting Rights Act U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana · American Civil Liberties Union · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Trump Nominee to Lead Whistleblower Office Faces Sexual Harassment Allegations Paul Ingrassia · Office of Special Counsel · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Border Patrol Agent Shoots US Citizen Marimar Martinez Five Times in Chicago During 'Operation Midway Blitz' Marimar Martinez · Charles Exum · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-29 | HHS Refers Harvard for Federal Funding Debarment After Court Blocks Illegal Funding Freeze U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Harvard University · Donald Trump · Allison D. Burroughs | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | HUD Fires Two Civil Rights Lawyers Who Exposed Fair Housing Enforcement Gutting Palmer Heenan · Paul Osadebe · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Fair Housing Office | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | FBI Director Patel Fires 15-20 Agents Photographed Kneeling at 2020 George Floyd Protests Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · FBI Agents Association · Christopher Wray | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Hegseth Terminates 74-Year-Old Women's Military Advisory Committee, Citing 'Divisive Feminist Agenda' Pete Hegseth · DACOWITS · U.S. Department of Defense | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Kennedy Center Fires Jazz Director in Continued Cultural Institution Purge Richard Grenell · Kevin Struthers · Jason Moran · Kennedy Center | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Charlie Kirk Assassinated at Utah Valley University During Turning Point USA Event Charlie Kirk · Tyler Robinson · Donald Trump · JD Vance · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-10 | Federal Judge Allows Trump to Eliminate 1,600 NSF Grants Worth $1 Billion Donald Trump · Department of Government Efficiency · National Science Foundation · Federal Judiciary | reported | |
| 2025-09-01 | Family Separations 2.0: ICE Deports 363 Pregnant Women, 16 Miscarriages in Custody by September 2025 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · ACLU · Physicians for Human Rights · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-25 | Flock Safety Admits Federal Immigration Agents Have Direct Access to Tracking Data, Pauses Pilot Flock Safety · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-22 | FBI Raids Home and Office of Trump Critic John Bolton John Bolton · Donald Trump · Kash Patel · John Ratcliffe · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-20 | Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Local Government Abortion Travel Assistance Greg Abbott · Ken Paxton · Texas Legislature · City of Austin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-18 | Texas Democrats End 2-Week Standoff, Return for Trump-Ordered Redistricting Vote Texas House Democrats · Nicole Collier · Dustin Burrows · Greg Abbott · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Publishes Official List of 35 "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions, Escalating Federal-State Confrontation Over Immigration Enforcement Department of Justice · Donald Trump · 13 Sanctuary States · 18 Sanctuary Cities | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Supreme Court Expands Louisiana Redistricting Case to Challenge Section 2 of Voting Rights Act U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Louisiana · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-16 | Trump Calls Own Supporters "Weaklings" and "Selfish People" After Demanding Epstein File Transparency Donald Trump · Tucker Carlson · Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | New Jersey Becomes Official Sanctuary State as States Escalate Legislative Resistance to Federal Immigration Enforcement New Jersey Legislature · Governor Phil Murphy · California Legislature · Colorado Legislature · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Tennessee Enacts Broad Healthcare Refusal Law Allowing Denial of Contraception Tennessee Legislature · Tennessee Governor | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | Supreme Court 6-3 Allows Third-Country Deportations Without Due Process U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-18 | State Department orders expanded visa screening protocols at all consulates Department of State · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-07 | Bovino's Home Depot Immigration Raid Standoff Triggers Trump's National Guard Deployment in LA Gregory Bovino · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · California National Guard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | CMS Rescinds EMTALA Guidance Requiring Emergency Abortion Care Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-27 | Missouri Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion Restrictions Despite Voter-Approved Amendment Missouri Supreme Court · Judge Jerri Zhang · Planned Parenthood · Andrew Bailey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-20 | National Legal Resistance Training and Certification Program National Lawyers Guild · Center for Constitutional Rights · Law School Consortium | confirmed |