| 2026-03-31 | Gettleman Orders ICE to Admit Clergy to Broadview Each Day of Holy Week; Government Filed No Response Judge Robert W. Gettleman · Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | 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 |
| 2026-03-20 | West Virginia Judge Orders ICE Field Office Director to Appear After Government Says Appropriations Lapse Prevents Paying for Lost Detainee Property; Case Later Dropped From Docket
2 src | | 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 |
| 2026-03-16 | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-03-06 | GardaWorld's Surprise, Arizona Warehouse Order Stands at $313,357,612.46 Obligated and $704,091,073 Potential Under Navy Contract N0002325D0032; Reported Capacity Ranges From 1,500 to Around 550
6 src GardaWorld Federal Services · ICE · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Defense | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-06 | Judge Tunheim Finds ICE Kept Released Petitioners' Property 'Without Any Lawful Basis,' Orders Fee-Free EAD Replacement and 30-Day Payment of Claims
1 src | | 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 |
| 2026-02-26 | 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 |
| 2026-02-26 | Judge Kollar-Kotelly, Reading the IRS's Own Declaration, Says the IRS Violated the Tax Code About 42,695 Times in Sending ICE Taxpayer Addresses
2 src Internal Revenue Service · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-24 | Former ICE Attorney Testifies Agency Trains Cadets to Violate Constitution
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · United States Congress |
| 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 | Minnesota Observer Network Documented 578 of the Roughly 4,000 Metro Surge Arrests Federal Officials Claimed; Data Incomplete
7 src Tom Homan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| 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 | Judge Provinzino Holds DOJ Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Civil Contempt, $500 a Day, Over ICE-Withheld IDs; Purged Next Day, Appeal Follows
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-18 | Native Americans Detained by ICE During Minneapolis Operations Without Records
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-18 | Three Clergy Enter Broadview ICE Facility on Ash Wednesday and Give Communion and Ashes Under Court Order Illinois State Police · 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 |
| 2026-02-13 | Court Dismisses Charges Against Sosa-Celis and Aljorna With Prejudice; DHS Says Two Officers' Sworn Testimony Appears Untruthful
4 src Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis · Tricia McLaughlin · Todd Lyons · Department of Homeland Security · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-12 | Gettleman Directs ICE to Allow Clergy Access to Broadview on Ash Wednesday Judge Robert W. Gettleman · Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership · 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 |
| 2026-01-31 | Judge Biery Grants Habeas Petition and Orders Release of Liam Conejo Ramos and His Father From Dilley Detention
5 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Amnesty International | | reported |
| 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 |
| 2026-01-16 | ICE posts its redacted sole-source justification for the Palantir ICM follow-on on SAM.gov
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Palantir Technologies · Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) | | 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 |
| 2026-01-14 | ICE Agent Shoots Julio Sosa-Celis in North Minneapolis; DHS Says the Officer Was Ambushed by Three; Sosa-Celis's Partner Says He Grabbed Nothing
3 src Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis · Christian Castro · Kristi Noem · Department of Homeland Security · +1 | | 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 Report Beatings, Sexual Abuse and Coercive Third-Country Removal Threats at Fort Bliss Camp East Montana, Citing 45+ Detainee Interviews and 16 Sworn Declarations
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · American Civil Liberties Union · Human Rights Watch |
| reported |
| 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) · Deportation Data Project · +1 |
| 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 officer J.B. testifies in Oregon federal court that his team's arrest target was 'eight a day', and that the ELITE app 'could say 100 percent, and it's wrong'
7 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 |
| 2025-11-05 | Judge Gettleman Issues TRO Ordering Minimum Conditions at ICE's Broadview Facility (Moreno Gonzalez v. Noem)
4 src Kristi Noem · Todd Lyons · Gregory Bovino · Marcos Charles · +3 | | 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 |
| 2025-10-31 | ICE Obligates $3.75M Initial Funding on a $9.2M Clearview AI Follow-On Contract (Sept 2025) as DHS Is Reported to Have Removed Its Facial-Recognition Directive
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Clearview AI · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection | | 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 |
| 2025-10-28 | 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
5 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kaelan Dorr · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · White House |
| reported |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2025-08-25 | Flock Safety Admits Federal Immigration Agents Have Direct Access to Tracking Data, Pauses Pilot
3 src Flock Safety · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Publishes Official List of 35 "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions, Escalating Federal-State Confrontation Over Immigration Enforcement
3 src Department of Justice · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-11 | Federal judge orders stop to "indiscriminate" ICE raids in Los Angeles
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-08 | Navy Activates WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS as Domestic Detention Procurement Vehicle With $10B Ceiling, Repurposing Afghanistan Logistics Contract for ICE
4 src U.S. Navy · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · John Phelan · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2025-07-01 | New Jersey Becomes Official Sanctuary State as States Escalate Legislative Resistance to Federal Immigration Enforcement
4 src California Legislature · Colorado Legislature · ICE · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-01 | Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem directive demands 3,000 daily ICE arrests
5 src Stephen Miller · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-21 | Target Hospitality Secures Seat on $4 Billion DHS Emergency Detention Strategic Sourcing Vehicle
2 src DHS · ICE |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-14 | ICE Awards SNA International $25M Rapid DNA Base IDIQ via SBIR Phase III Noncompetitive Pathway
8 src DHS Science and Technology Directorate · Electronic Frontier Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2025-05-10 | DHS spokesperson says arresting Democratic members of Congress is 'definitely on the table' after Newark ICE facility incident
4 src Tricia McLaughlin · Department of Homeland Security · Bonnie Watson Coleman |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-01 | Operation At Large launches with 5,000 federal agents and 21,000 National Guard proposed deployment
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · National Guard · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-30 | ICE arrests 65,000 in first 100 days including 2,288 gang members
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |