| 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
4 src Kaelan Dorr · White House · Donald Trump |
| reported |
| 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 |
| 2025-01-21 | 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 |
| 2025-01-20 | 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) Wins DHS/ICE Emergency Detention Contingency Contract With $385 Million Ceiling
9 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Dick Cheney · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 |
| reported |
| 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 | | |