| 2026-06-23 | ICE 'Detention Reengineering Initiative' Targets 100,000 Beds by Sept 2026 via 24 Warehouse-Converted Facilities
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-20 | ICE Signs Largest-Ever $3.75M Clearview AI Facial-Recognition Contract as DHS Deletes Its Own Oversight Policy
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Clearview AI · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-04 | ICE Detainee Placed in Solitary, Transferred to Louisiana After Moshannon Protest Over Sick Detainee
2 src GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) | | 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 |
| 2026-05-13 | ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Against Memphis Safe Task Force Alleging Pattern of First Amendment Retaliation Against Civilians Recording Federal Immigration Enforcement
5 src American Civil Liberties Union · Todd Blanche · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | DHS Files Zero Privacy Impact Assessments in 2026 While Operating $1B No-Bid Palantir Surveillance Network
4 src Department of Homeland Security · Palantir Technologies · CBP · ICE · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | Former GEO Group SVP David Venturella Named Acting ICE Director, Completing Revolving-Door Loop
3 src David Venturella · GEO Group · Todd Lyons · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-12 | ICE Issues Memo Requiring 48-Hour Prior Approval and Named-Detainee ID for All Congressional Oversight Visits
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Todd Lyons · Department of Homeland Security · Robert Garcia | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | Tennessee Governor Lee Signs HB2219 Making All 95 County Sheriffs Join 287(g) — First State Mandate of Its Kind
4 src Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | USCIS Ends Automatic Deportation Protection for Child Immigrants Awaiting Visa Backlog, Policy Takes Effect May 10
4 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-09 | Tennessee HB2219 Mandating All 95 County Sheriffs Join 287(g) ICE Program Transmitted to Governor Lee
3 src Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | 11th Circuit Rejects Trump No-Bond Detention Policy, Deepening 4-Way Circuit Split Toward SCOTUS
3 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Supreme Court | | 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 Confirms ICE Detains US Citizens Daily, Defends Practice as Acceptable
3 src Tom Homan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security | | 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 · Vera Institute of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union · +1 | | 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 |
| 2026-04-22 | Orange County FL Unanimously Terminates ICE Section of IGSA, Caps Detainee Holds at 48 Hours
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-17 | San Antonio City Council Passes Ordinance Restricting New Private Detention Facilities, Exempts Planned ICE Warehouse
2 src ICE · 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 |
| 2026-04-15 | Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Williamsport Maryland ICE Detention Construction Over NEPA Violations
3 src Anthony G. Brown · ICE · Department of Homeland Security · KVG LLC · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-09 | Houston ISD Soccer Captain Mauro Henriquez Deported to Honduras After Four Months in ICE Detention
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-09 | Human Rights Watch Documents Systematic Abuses in ICE's Expanding Warehouse Detention Network, Citing Arizona GardaWorld Contract
2 src Human Rights Watch · ICE · GardaWorld Federal Services · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-08 | ICE Data Reveals 1,300 'Collateral' Arrests During Operation Metro Surge -- 35% of All Minnesota Detentions
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-03 | Washington Post Data Analysis: ICE Still Arresting Immigrants Without Criminal Records at 70%+ Rate Despite Administration Pledge to Target Criminals
2 src ICE · Department of Homeland Security · Washington Post | | 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 |
| 2026-03-30 | 14th ICE Detainee Dies in 2026 as Detention System on Track for Deadliest Year Since 2004 | | |
| 2026-03-25 | Choctaw Nation Purchases Former Big Lots Warehouse in Durant, Permanently Removing 8,500 Potential ICE Detention Beds From Federal Market
4 src Blue Owl Capital · ICE · Department of Homeland Security | | 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 | Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Released from ICE Custody After More Than Two Weeks
3 src ICE | | 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 | Mullin DHS Confirmation Hearing Marked by Confrontation with Rand Paul and Shift on ICE Warrant Policy
3 src Markwayne Mullin · Rand Paul |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | ICE-Detained Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Granted $10K Bond After 12 Days in Custody
3 src ICE |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | Last Person Detained in Trump Campus Protest Crackdown Released from ICE Custody on $100K Bond
3 src ICE |
| 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 |
| 2026-03-06 | ICE Awards GardaWorld $313M Contract to Convert Surprise Arizona Warehouse Into 1,500-Bed Detention Center via DOD Procurement
4 src GardaWorld Federal Services · ICE · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Defense | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-26 | Chief Judge Schiltz Threatens Criminal Contempt Against ICE After 96 Court Order Violations
4 src Patrick Schiltz · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Todd Lyons · Daniel Rosen · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-24 | Former ICE Attorney Testifies Agency Trains Cadets to Violate Constitution
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-24 | Judge Bryan Holds Federal Government in Contempt for ICE Transfer Violations
3 src Jeffrey Bryan · Daniel Rosen · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-23 | ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App Zello to Power Operations
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-23 | Operation Metro Surge Final Data: Only 578 Arrests Documented of 4,000 Claimed
5 src Tom Homan · Kristi Noem · Tim Walz · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-19 | DHS Signs $1 Billion Palantir Agreement for Immigration Surveillance
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-19 | Pardoned Honduran Ex-President Receives ICE Detainer Removal and Luxury Hotel Transfer
3 src Juan Orlando Hernández · Donald Trump · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-18 | Native Americans Detained by ICE During Minneapolis Operations Without Records
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-17 | ICE 287(g) Agreements with Local Police Explode to 1,400+
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-17 | Maryland Governor Signs Emergency Ban on State-Local ICE Partnerships
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-14 | DHS Shutdown Begins But Immigration Enforcement Continues
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Chuck Schumer | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-13 | ACLU Files Amended Tincher v. Noem Complaint with 80+ Declarations of ICE First Amendment Retaliation
2 src American Civil Liberties Union · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-12 | Homan Announces End to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota
3 src Tom Homan · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tim Walz · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-29 | DHS Pays Blue Owl $119.5M for Vacant Tremont PA Warehouse, Exactly Double Schuylkill County's Fresh Full-Market-Value Assessment
4 src Blue Owl Capital · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · Big Lots · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-28 | Federal Judge Finds ICE Violated 96 Court Orders in Minnesota
3 src Patrick Schiltz · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-26 | Senate Republicans Break with the Administration over the Minneapolis ICE Killings
8 src Bill Cassidy · Lisa Murkowski · Ted Cruz · Kristi Noem · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-22 | Whistleblowers Reveal Secret ICE Memo Authorizing Agents to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants
4 src 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
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-21 | Whistleblowers Expose ICE Policy Authorizing Warrantless Home Entries
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Richard Blumenthal |
| 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 |
| 2026-01-19 | ICE Announces 3,000 Arrests in Operation Metro Surge
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-15 | ACLU Files Class Action Against ICE for Racial Profiling in Minnesota
3 src 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
4 src Jeffrey Bryan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tricia McLaughlin |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-13 | DOJ Civil Rights Division Leaders Mass Resign Over Refusal to Investigate Renee Good Killing
3 src Harmeet Dhillon · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-13 | ProPublica documents 40+ cases of immigration agents using banned chokeholds and neck restraints; Minnesota Reformer republishes amid Operation Metro Surge
5 src ProPublica · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-10 | Choctaw Nation Tribal Council Unanimously Rejects ICE Detention Facility in Durant; City Passes Emergency Ordinance Restricting Sales
3 src Blue Owl Capital | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-09 | Video Analyses by NYT and ABC News Reconstruct the Renee Good Shooting Frame by Frame
7 src Renee Nicole Good · Jonathan Ross · ICE · New York Times · +2 | | confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2026-01-08 | DHS Announces Operation Salvo Results in New York City
2 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | DHS Secretary Noem Unveils "One of Ours, All of Yours" Collective Punishment Doctrine at One World Trade Center | | |
| 2026-01-08 | FBI Revokes State Access to Evidence in Renee Good Shooting, Blocks Minnesota Investigation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension · J.D. Vance · Jacob Frey | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | House Democrats File Impeachment Articles Against DHS Secretary Noem Over ICE Shooting
3 src Kristi Noem |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | VP Vance Calls Renee Good's Death "A Tragedy of Her Own Making"
6 src J.D. Vance · Renee Nicole Good · Jonathan Ross · ICE | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-07 | Vice President Vance Announces ICE Will Go 'Door to Door' for Mass Deportations
3 src J.D. Vance · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Fox News | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-06 | DHS Deploys 2,000 Federal Agents to Minneapolis in 'Largest Immigration Operation Ever'
3 src Kristi Noem · Stephen Miller · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-03 | ICE Announces 120% Workforce Increase to 22,000 After Recruiting 12,000 Agents in Under a Year | | |
| 2026-01-03 | ICE Announces Workforce Doubled to 22,000 Agents Through "Defend Your Culture" Recruitment Campaign
2 src Kristi Noem · ICE · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-31 | Off-Duty ICE Officer Shoots and Kills Keith Porter in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve
3 src 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
6 src Freedom of the Press Foundation · Federal Law Enforcement · ICE · Department of Homeland Security |
| 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
3 src Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-16 | ICE Launches Operation Buckeye in Ohio, Targeting Afghan Refugees Who Fled Taliban and Entered Through Legal CBP One Program
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-11 | DHS Secretary Noem Confronted Over Veteran Deportations in Contentious Congressional Hearing
3 src Kristi Noem |
| reported |
| 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
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · American Civil Liberties Union · Human Rights Watch |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-07 | ICE Data Reveals 75,000 Arrests Had No Criminal History in Quota-Driven Dragnet
5 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Stephen Miller · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | Amnesty International documents torture and enforced disappearances at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome detention facilities
5 src Amnesty International · Ron DeSantis · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | ICE Escalates Operations Targeting Somali Immigrants in Minnesota Following Trump's Attacks on Community
7 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · Tim Walz · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | Illinois Secretary of State Warns Federal Immigration Agents and Rental Companies That License Plate Tampering Violates State Law
7 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · JB Pritzker |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-03 | GAO Denies Bode Cellmark Protest of SNA International ICE Rapid DNA IDIQ, Affirming SBIR Phase III Noncompetitive Sole-Source Authority
5 src U.S. Government Accountability Office | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-02 | ICE agent testifies under oath in Oregon federal court that the Palantir-built ELITE targeting app drove an 8-arrests-per-day quota and produced leads that were 'generally not accurate'
5 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · Palantir Technologies |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-14 | Seven Clergy Arrested at Broadview; Sister JoAnn Persch Dies Same Day
7 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Illinois State Police · Cardinal Blase Cupich | | confirmed |
| 2025-11-07 | ICE Bans Prayer Outside Broadview Detention Center
6 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | | confirmed |
| 2025-11-04 | Pope Leo XIV Calls for ICE to Allow Clergy Access to Detained Migrants
4 src Pope Leo XIV · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Cardinal Blase Cupich · Catholic Church · +1 | | reported |
| 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 |
| 2025-10-28 | Trump Purges 12 ICE Field Directors, Replaces with Border Patrol Loyalists to Escalate Deportations
3 src Donald Trump · Gregory Bovino · Kristi Noem · Stephen Miller · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-27 | DHS Posts Halo Video Game Image Comparing Immigrants to Parasitic Aliens Requiring Extermination
4 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kaelan Dorr · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · White House |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-25 | ICE Deports Man to Laos Despite Federal Court Order Blocking Removal, Ignoring Torture and Persecution Risk
6 src ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-16 | Ring partners with Flock Safety and Axon, reversing privacy commitments and expanding police surveillance
3 src Ring · Amazon · Flock Safety · Axon · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-15 | DHS Secretary Noem Names Greg Bovino Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Outside Normal Chain of Command
5 src Kristi Noem · Greg Bovino · CBP | | |
| 2025-10-03 | Noem Tells ICE Agents at Broadview to "Go Hard" and "Hammer These Guys"
5 src Kristi Noem · Greg Bovino · ICE · CBP | | confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2025-09-25 | Militarization of Immigration Enforcement — Genealogy [CORRECTED from NSPM-7 mis-attribution] | | confirmed |
| 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 |