| 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 | AG Bondi Issues Domestic Terrorism Memo Expanding Definition to Include Immigration Protest and Anti-Capitalism | | |
| 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 | DHS Announces Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, Largest Immigration Enforcement Operation in U.S. History
6 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kristi Noem · Tom Homan · +3 |
| 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 |
| 2025-12-03 | Bovino Launches 'Operation Catahoula Crunch' in New Orleans, Texts 'We Are a Massive Wrecking Crew'
4 src Gregory Bovino · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-03 | State Department Orders H-1B Visa Denials for Content Moderation and Fact-Checking Workers
4 src State Department · Marco Rubio · Tech companies |
| reported |
| 2025-12-02 | USCIS Places Indefinite Adjudication Hold on Immigration Benefits for Nationals of Designated Countries (PM-602-0192), Expanded to 39 Countries on Jan 1
5 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-02 | USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins Threatens to Cut SNAP Funding to 21 Democratic-Led States Over Refusal to Provide Recipient Data, Defying Court Injunction
4 src Brooke Rollins · USDA · Donald Trump · California · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-11-20 | 7th Circuit Blocks Release of 615 Immigrants One Day Before Court-Ordered Deadline
5 src Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2025-11-15 | Bovino Launches 'Operation Charlotte's Web' in North Carolina, 250+ Arrests as 30,000 Students Stay Home
4 src Gregory Bovino · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-28 | Palantir Wins USCIS Contract for "VOWS" Marriage Fraud Detection Platform, Expanding Immigration Surveillance
1 src Palantir · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 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 | Judge Crenshaw Issues Effective Gag Order After Bovino Calls Abrego Garcia "MS-13 Member" and "Wife Beater" on Fox News
5 src Greg Bovino · Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Kristi Noem · Pam Bondi · +2 | | confirmed |
| 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 · +2 |
| 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 | | |
| 2025-10-09 | DHS Secretary Announces Additional Chicago Property Purchase for ICE Operations
3 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · JB Pritzker | | reported |
| 2025-10-07 | ICE Furloughs Entire Detention Oversight Office Despite Record Capacity
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | | reported |
| 2025-10-05 | Border Patrol Agent Shoots US Citizen Marimar Martinez Five Times in Chicago During 'Operation Midway Blitz'
3 src Marimar Martinez · Charles Exum · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | | confirmed |
| 2025-10-05 | Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts
2 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress |
| reported |
| 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 |
| 2025-10-03 | SCOTUS second shadow-docket stay in Noem v. National TPS Alliance pauses summary judgment order restoring Venezuelan TPS
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-25 | Militarization of Immigration Enforcement — Genealogy [CORRECTED from NSPM-7 mis-attribution] | | confirmed |
| 2025-09-11 | Trump Administration Threatens National Guard Deployment to Chicago
3 src Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Stephen Miller | | reported |
| 2025-09-09 | ICE Awards $9.2 Million Facial Recognition Contract to Clearview AI
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Clearview AI · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-02 | ICE Reactivates $2M Paragon Spyware Contract for WhatsApp, Signal Encryption Breaking
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · WhatsApp |
| confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2025-08-01 | ICE detention reaches 59,000 people at 140% capacity with 70% having no criminal record
5 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2025-07-28 | ICE blocks members of Congress from detention facilities, violating oversight law
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Jason Crow · Chris Van Hollen | | 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 |
| 2025-07-02 | Joe Rogan Publicly Criticizes Trump's "Insane" ICE Raids, Says Feels "Betrayed" - Eight Months After Trump Endorsement
3 src Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Bernie Sanders |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-01 | DHS ends sensitive locations policy allowing ICE arrests at churches and schools
5 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-01 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Enabling Event for Project 2025 Treasury/Tax Chapter and Endowment-Tax Implementation
7 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-12 | Senator Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed by FBI
3 src U.S. Secret Service |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-10 | ICE Worksite Raids Resume Nationwide: Mass Arrests Across Multiple States
6 src ICE · DHS · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-06 | Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested During Federal Operation
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · SEIU · Federal Law Enforcement |
| 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 |
| 2025-05-30 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. Doe clears Trump termination of CHNV humanitarian parole affecting ~500,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan migrants
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-19 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. National TPS Alliance clears Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status termination (initial stay)
3 src |
| 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 |
| 2025-04-29 | Judge Thurston Enjoins Border Patrol Warrantless Sweeps After Bovino's El Centro Agents Racially Profile Farm Workers in Kern County
5 src Greg Bovino · CBP · United Farm Workers · ACLU | | confirmed |
| 2025-04-25 | DOGE Building Master Immigration Enforcement Database with Palantir, Integrating IRS and Federal Agency Data
3 src DOGE · Elon Musk · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +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 |
| 2025-04-07 | SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. J.G.G. vacates TROs blocking Alien Enemies Act removals of Venezuelan nationals
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-27 | White House Establishes "The Arrests Will Continue. The Memes Will Continue" as Official Communications Doctrine
3 src Kaelan Dorr · White House · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-15 | Kilmar Abrego Garcia Wrongfully Deported to El Salvador Despite Court-Ordered Protection
4 src Kilmar Abrego Garcia · ICE · Trump Administration · Nayib Bukele |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-13 | ICE makes 32,809 arrests in first 50 days of Trump administration
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-02-26 | ICE arrests increase 627% in first month under Trump vs Biden era
5 src Donald Trump · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2025-02-18 | White House Posts "ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight" Video Packaging State Violence as Entertainment
3 src White House · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2025-02-10 | Pope Francis Rebukes Vance's 'Ordo Amoris' Defense of Mass Deportation in Letter to US Bishops: 'Christian Love Is Not a Concentric Expansion of Interests'
3 src J.D. Vance · Pope Francis · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2025-01-20 | ICE Launches Aggressive Raids in Puerto Rico's Dominican Community
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Jenniffer González-Colón · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2024-09-01 | Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border
2 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2020-07-04 | BORTAC Border Patrol Tactical Units Deployed Against Portland BLM Protesters | | |
| 2020-07-01 | CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border
2 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2020-01-07 | Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches Congressional Inquiry Into McKinsey's ICE Contracts and Detention Recommendations
2 src Pramila Jayapal · McKinsey & Company · Kevin Sneader · House Judiciary Committee · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-12-03 | ProPublica Exposes McKinsey's ICE Work Through FOIA Lawsuit: 1,500 Pages Reveal Detention Cost-Cutting Proposals
7 src ProPublica · New York Times · McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2019-08-07 | Mississippi raids - largest single-state immigration enforcement
4 src | | 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 |
| 2018-06-26 | New York Times Discloses McKinsey's $20 Million ICE Contract: Employee Outrage and Internal Crisis
2 src McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kevin Sneader |
| confirmed |
| 2018-04-01 | Operation Guardian Support deploys 4,000 National Guard to border
4 src National Guard · U.S. Border Patrol · Pentagon | | confirmed |
| 2017-11-01 | Accenture delivers 58 hires for $297M ICE contract
4 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS Office of Inspector General · Trump Administration | | confirmed |
| 2017-10-01 | ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time
5 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2017-03-30 | McKinsey Proposes 'Detention Savings Opportunities': Cuts to Food, Medical Care, and Guard Supervision for Migrants
5 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-20 | McKinsey's ICE Contract Redirected Toward Trump's Immigration Crackdown and Detention Cost-Cutting
18 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | ICE hiring collapses despite 10,000 agent expansion order
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | ICE relies on a sprawling, mostly contracted network of ~200 detention facilities; oversight fragmented
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · CoreCivic · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Marshals Service · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2008-05-12 | ICE Conducts Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. History at Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors Plant, Arresting 389 Workers While Management Faces No Criminal Charges Despite Systematic Labor Law Violations and Exploitation
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-24 | KBR (Halliburton Subsidiary) Awarded $385M DHS/ICE Contingency Contract for Emergency Immigrant Detention Facilities
6 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Dick Cheney · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1954-06-17 | Operation Wetback: Mass Deportation Campaign Removes Over One Million Ethnic Mexicans | | |
| 1936-01-01 | Harlon Carter Joins U.S. Border Patrol Beginning Rise to Chief of Border Control | | |
| 1931-03-03 | Harlon Carter Age 17 Shoots and Kills 15-Year-Old Ramón Casiano in Laredo Texas | | |
| 1924-05-28 | U.S. Border Patrol Founded Staffed by Former Klansmen and Texas Rangers | | |
| 1918-01-28 | Porvenir Massacre: Texas Rangers and Army Execute 15 Unarmed Mexican American Men | | |
| 1910-01-01 | Texas Rangers Conduct "La Matanza" Killing 300-5,000 Ethnic Mexicans Along Border | | |