Immigration
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What is happening?
The federal government has sole authority over immigration in the United States. This includes control of all visas, programs for approval of permanent residence, refugee and humanitarian admissions, and all agencies and regulatory mechanisms that address immigration.
The Trump administration is engaged in a multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself. The specific attacks we’re seeing include:
- Stripping lawful immigration status from people who had humanitarian protections, work permits, and even green cards in some cases, thus making hundreds of thousands of immigrants newly “illegal.”
- Dramatically escalating all aspects of immigration enforcement by conducting sweeps targeting Black and brown communities, militarizing and federalizing state and local law enforcement, reclassifying members of foreign-origin gangs as deportable “terrorists,” refusing to release arrestees on bond, and in all ways denying due process to arrested and detained immigrants.
- Undermining the integrity of the immigration system by firing immigration judges, demanding faster case processing, limiting access to hearings, and refusing legally mandatory oversight of detention centers.
- Attempting to end birthright citizenship for children born to immigrant parents in the United States, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution.
These are not the only attacks underway, and our timeline below is best understood as representative rather than comprehensive. We’re building an explainer to go with this timeline, and we’ll also be publishing a separate page on the exploitation of the immigration system for repression and persecution of ideological and political targets.
Timeline of events
| Date | What happened? | Metadata |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 2025 | On Inauguration Day, the Trump administration fires the acting head of the US immigration court system and the chief immigration judge, along with the policy head and general counsel for the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14157: “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” which redefines “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” and “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” to include specific cartels and gangs. This is the first step in allowing the Department of Homeland Security to use existing anti-terrorism laws to deport people suspected of gang membership without due process. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14159: “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” which reduces access to due process for immigrants, brings “expedited removal” tactics previously practiced at US borders to the whole country, imposes registration requirements that are impossible for undocumented people to meet, further restricts work permits, and threatens federal funding to sanctuary cities and immigrant assistance organizations. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14160: “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” which declares an end to birthright citizenship. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14161: “Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats,” which directs multiple agencies to plan a broad travel ban and to intensify security and ideological screening of all foreign nationals. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14163: “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program,” which ends existing refugee admission processes. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14165: "Securing Our Borders,” which terminates humanitarian immigration pathways, criminalizes violations of (civil) immigration law, requires detention of all noncitizens suspected of breaking laws, directs Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) actions against sanctuary jurisdictions, and increases immigration enforcement staffing. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14167: “Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States,” directing the Department of Defense to develop plans to use federal troops domestically for border security. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs Proclamation 10886: “Declaring a National Emergency at the Southern Border of the United States,” invoking presidential powers to fund the border wall without Congressional authorization and calling for military deployment at the border. | |
| Jan 20, 2025 | Trump signs Proclamation 10888: “Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion,” which classifies migration as invasion, “closes” the southern border, invokes the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, and suspends US laws allowing immigrants to seek asylum. | |
| Jan 21, 2025 | ICE rescinds Biden-era guidance that had kept immigration enforcement out of courthouses to ensure “access to justice, safety for crime victims, and equal protection under the law.” This effectively allows ICE to stake out courthouses to arrest “targeted individuals” and their family and friends. | |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Four states file a lawsuit against EO 14160, which ends birthright citizenship (Washington v. Trump). | $cases: Washington v. Trump |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Two advocacy organizations and a group of pregnant women whose children would be affected by the termination of birthright citizenship file suit against the Trump administration over EO 14160 (CASA v. Trump). | $cases: CASA v. Trump |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Make the Road, an immigrant-led advocacy organization, challenges the Trump administration’s “expedited removal” of immigrants arrested in the interior of the US using rapid methods previously reserved for apprehensions at or near the border (Make the Road New York v. Noem). | $cases: Make the Road New York v. Noem |
| Jan 23, 2025 | Federal judge John Coughenour pauses the Trump administration’s attempt to end birthright citizenship (PDF) (Washington v. Trump). | $cases: Washington v. Trump |
| Jan 25, 2025 | Trump officials issue a quota for immigration-related enforcement, instructing ICE to arrest at least 1,200 people every day. | |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Trump issues a memorandum to the Secretary of Defense titled “Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity,” nearly doubling the nationwide immigration detention capacity. | |
| Feb 1, 2025 | Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issues a memorandum requiring 24-hour advance notice of oversight visits by congressional staff. (Note: The memo is dated “February” and the precise date of issue is unknown.) | |
| Feb 2, 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security issues a notice retracting a Biden-administration extension of two temporary protected status (TPS) designations for Venezuelan nationals in the US. This is followed a few days later by a notice fully terminating TPS for Venezuelan nationals affected by one TPS designation as of April 7; barring further changes, the other designation will expire on September 10. | |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele announce that El Salvador will incarcerate “convicted criminals” deported from the US, potentially including US citizens, in El Salvador’s notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison. | |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Three nonprofits that serve refugees and immigrants file suit against the Trump administration for its termination of the asylum system, alleging that this action violates four congressional acts and the separation of powers (RAICES v. Noem). | $cases: Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services v. Noem |
| Feb 4, 2025 | US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) starts defunding multiple organizations that serve immigrants. | |
| Feb 5, 2025 | Federal judge Deborah L. Boardman issues a preliminary nationwide injunction that blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order (CASA v. Trump). | $cases: CASA v. Trump |
| Feb 6, 2025 | Judge Coughenour follows his initial temporary order with a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s attempt to end birthright citizenship (Washington v. Trump). | $cases: Washington v. Trump |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Cities and counties in multiple states challenge EO 14159 and a related Department of Justice memo that would withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities (San Francisco v. Trump). | $cases: San Francisco v. Trump |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14204: “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa,” which directs the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to prioritize refugee admission and resettlement for white Afrikaners from South Africa. | |
| Feb 14, 2025 | US Citizenship and Immigration Services issues an “administrative pause” on all paperwork processing related to the Uniting for Ukraine program (U4U), the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans parole program (CHNV parole), and the Family Reunification Parole program (FRP). | |
| Feb 14, 2005 | The Trump administration fires 20 immigration judges without stated cause, despite a current 3.7-million-case backlog in immigration courts that has led to years-long waits for hearings. | |
| Feb 18, 2025 | The Trump administration removes all nine Biden-appointed immigration judges on the Board of Immigration Appeals and reduces the board’s size from 28 to 15 permanent members, though these cuts are not officially confirmed until April. | |
| Feb 19, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14218: “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” which directs the government to “ensure…that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens” (a group that includes many lawfully present immigrants) by targeting currently funded programs, tightening eligibility verifications, and attacking sanctuary policies. | |
| Feb 19, 2025 | The National TPS Alliance and several Venezuelan nationals with temporary protected status (TPS) file suit against the Trump administration. They argue that termination of their TPS violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and is motivated by racism (National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela). | $cases: National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela |
| Feb 24, 2025 | DHS Secretary Kristi Noem issues a notice setting the temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian nationals living in the US to expire six months early. | |
| Feb 28, 2025 | The Haitian Bridge Alliance and 11 individuals file suit against the Trump administration’s termination of humanitarian parole for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV parole) and immigration pathways for people from Afghanistan (Operation Allies Welcome) and Ukraine (Uniting for Ukraine/U4U) (Svitlana Doe v. Noem). | $cases: Svitlana Doe v. Noem |
| Mar 1, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14224: “Designating English as the Official Language of the United States,” which revokes Bill Clinton’s EO 13166: “Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency,” signed August 11, 2000. | |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Immigration advocates report mass layoffs of federal workers focused on immigration services, justice, and benefits, including US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) employees, State Department workers who process visas, and immigration judges. | |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born lawful permanent resident, is arrested without a warrant by ICE officers and detained pending deportation. ICE claims that his student visa has been revoked without notice; when told Khalil is a green card holder married to a US citizen, they claim his green card has also been revoked. | |
| Mar 9, 2025 | Mahmoud Khalil’s counsel files a habeas corpus petition claiming that his arrest and detention violate the Due Process Clause and the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Hours after his petition is filed, ICE transfers Khalil from New York to Louisiana (Khalil v. Joyce). | $cases: Khalil v. Joyce |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Federal judge Jesse Furman rules that Mahmoud Khalil cannot be deported or detained while his case proceeds. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 | ICE arrests Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador–born man living in Maryland, and detains him without charges, citing old allegations of MS-13 gang involvement that came from a detective later suspended for misconduct and placed on a do-not-call list for “unreliable” officers. | |
| Mar 12, 2025 | An ICE official states that the US immigration detention system is filled to capacity, with 47,600 people in detention. | |
| Mar 14, 2025 | According to a whistleblower disclosure by a former Department of Justice attorney, top DOJ official Emil Bove tells Office of Immigration Litigation lawyers that they need to consider ignoring court orders (“telling the courts ‘fuck you’”) to ensure that ICE deportation flights proceed despite blocks from federal judges. | |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Reports surface that US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has canceled translation service for calls to the Department of Homeland Security and instructed workers to hang up on callers speaking languages in which they’re not fluent. | |
| Mar 14, 2025 | A Haitian clergy association joins with a group of Haitians with temporary protected status (TPS) and a labor organization to sue the Trump administration, claiming that ending Haiti’s TPS designation is unlawful (Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association v. Trump). | $cases: Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association v. Trump |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Trump signs Proclamation 13033: “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua,” allowing expedited deportation of any Venezuelan national age 14 or older who is alleged to be a member of the Tren de Aragua gang (newly designated as a “terrorist organization”). | |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Early on March 15, five Venezuelan nationals in immigration detention file a legal challenge against the Trump administration’s planned deportations of alleged members of Tren de Aragua under the Alien Enemies Act. That same day, federal judge James Boasberg issues a bench ruling and a written temporary restraining order blocking the deportations and ordering deportation flights to return (J.G.G. v. Trump). | $cases: J.G.G. v. Trump |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Despite Judge Boasberg’s restraining order, the Trump administration begins mass deportations to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT megaprison based on the administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act (J.G.G. v. Trump). | $cases: J.G.G. v. Trump |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran-born Maryland man arrested for alleged gang membership, is deported in the first group of CECOT renditions. Abrego Garcia has protected legal status specifically prohibiting him from being deported to El Salvador, but he is sent there anyway. | |
| Mar 21, 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) closes three oversight and assistance offices: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, and the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. These services are congressionally mandated and required by statute to register civil rights violations in the immigration system and to assist immigrants and employers with paperwork problems. | |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Trump defunds a legal aid program that ensures that 26,000 unaccompanied immigrant children, including babies under the age of one, are not forced to represent themselves in immigration courts. | |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Three immigrant advocacy organizations file suit against the Trump administration’s policy of rapidly deporting immigrants who entered the country lawfully through humanitarian parole programs (CHIRLA v. Noem). | $cases: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. Noem |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family files a lawsuit arguing that his arrest and deportation violated his due process rights, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Withholding of Removal Statute (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Mar 25, 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security files notice that it is terminating the humanitarian parole process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, revoking the lawful immigration status of people on CHNV parole as of April 24, 2025. | |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish-born PhD student who co-wrote an op-ed criticizing her school’s response to the genocide in Gaza, is arrested on the street and detained by masked, non-uniformed ICE agents after her visa is revoked without notice. Federal judge Indira Talwani issues an emergency order that Öztürk not be removed from Massachusetts without 48 hours’ notice, but ICE immediately transfers her out of state, eventually to a detention center in Louisiana (Öztürk v. Hyde). | $cases: Öztürk v. Hyde |
| Mar 25, 2025 | The American Association of University Professors, the Knight First Amendment Center at Columbia University, and several other academic groups file suit against the Trump administration’s alleged targeting of noncitizen students and professors for detention and deportation over their constitutionally protected political speech (American Association of University Professors v. Rubio). | $cases: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio |
| Mar 26, 2025 | The DC Circuit Court of Appeals denies the Trump administration’s appeal of Judge Boasberg’s restraining order against the deportations of alleged members of Venezuelan gangs under the Alien Enemies Act (J.G.G. v. Trump). | $cases: J.G.G. v. Trump |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Erez Reuveni, a Trump administration attorney, admits in a federal court filing (PDF) that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Federal judge Edward Chen blocks the Trump administration’s attempt to remove temporary protected status (TPS) from Venezuelans while the case proceeds (National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela). | $cases: National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Federal judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín orders the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal aid to the children whose support was defunded on March 21 (Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. HHS). | $cases: Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. HHS |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Federal judge Paula Xinis orders the Trump administration to “facilitate and effectuate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the US by midnight on April 7 (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Apr 7, 2025 | The Supreme Court overrules lower court decisions and allows the Trump administration to continue deporting Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act as long as the government provides minimal due process. The ruling also states that challenges to the deportations should have been made as habeas corpus petitions for each plaintiff in the jurisdiction where they are detained (J.G.G. v. Trump). | $cases: J.G.G. v. Trump |
| Apr 7, 2025 | The Trump administration files an emergency appeal arguing that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the “terrorist group” MS-13 and that a court cannot issue orders to the president on matters of foreign diplomacy. Later the same day, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issues a temporary administrative stay lifting the April 7 deadline for Abrego Garcia’s return (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Apr 10, 2025 | The US Supreme Court upholds the lower court order requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return to the US. The administration refuses, claiming that his release is up to El Salvador and beyond both the power and the obligations of the US government (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The Trump administration orders immigration judges to dismiss asylum claims without hearings if the claims appear to be “legally deficient” based solely on applicants’ asylum request forms; the order makes it easier to deport asylum applicants who lack legal representation. | |
| Apr 11, 2005 | Louisiana immigration court judge Jamee Comans rules that Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder, can be deported. According to Khalil’s lawyers, the judge relied on a two-page State Department memo stating that Khalil’s lawful pro-Palestinian advocacy makes his presence in the US harmful to US foreign policy (Khalil v. Joyce). | $cases: Khalil v. Joyce |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Federal judge Indira Talwani temporarily blocks the Trump administration’s termination of humanitarian parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV parole) (Svitlana Doe v. Noem). (Note: The judge announces the stay three days earlier, leading to media coverage dated April 10, but her order is filed on April 14.) | $cases: Svitlana Doe v. Noem |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, tells reporters that he will not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. The Trump administration also retracts its previous admission that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was an “administrative error.” | $cases: |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder who was born in a West Bank refugee camp and led pro-Palestinian student protests, is arrested and detained by ICE at his own naturalization interview. His attorneys immediately file a habeas corpus petition, and a federal court orders (PDF) that he not be deported or moved from Vermont while his case proceeds (Mahdawi v. Trump). | $cases: Mahdawi v. Trump |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. He confirms that Abrego Garcia has been released from CECOT and was transferred to another detention facility in El Salvador on April 10 (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Apr 18, 2025 | While refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a federal court order, the Trump administration intensifies its efforts to portray him as a dangerous criminal by publicizing past accusations — none of which had led to charges. | $cases: |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Legal aid organizations report that the Trump administration is defying Judge Martínez-Olguin’s April 1 court order to restore legal aid to immigrant children (Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. HHS). | $cases: Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. HHS |
| Apr 22, 2025 | The Trump administration fires 8 more immigration judges. | |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Federal judge William Orrick blocks the withholding of federal funding from sanctuary cities under EO 14159 (San Francisco v. Trump). | $cases: San Francisco v. Trump |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Three nonprofit civil rights organizations file a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security challenging the closure of key DHS oversight offices (Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. DHS). | $cases: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. DHS |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan is arrested by FBI agents and charged with two felony counts — obstruction and concealing an individual — which allege that she escorted a defendant in her courtroom away from ICE agents waiting to detain him. | |
| Apr 28, 2025 | Trump signs EO 14287: “Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens,” which directs various executive departments and agencies to publish a list of sanctuary cities and identify ways to cut these cities off from federal funding. | |
| Apr 30, 2025 | Mohsen Mahdawi is released from ICE custody on bail while his habeas corpus case proceeds (Mahdawi v. Trump). | $cases: Mahdawi v. Trump |
| May 6, 2025 | Fourteen news organizations file a motion to intervene in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case, asking for the release of court records in the name of “maximum transparency” (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| May 7, 2025 | The Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in response to Judge Xinis’s and the plaintiffs’ multiple attempts to obtain information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s condition and location (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| May 9, 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security arrests Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during an official oversight visit to a new ICE detention facility and charges him with trespassing. During the chaotic arrest, the congressional delegation is caught up in a scuffle with ICE agents. | |
| May 9, 2025 | After more than six weeks in immigration detention, Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk is freed (Öztürk v. Hyde). | $cases: Öztürk v. Hyde |
| May 19, 2025 | In an unsigned “shadow docket” ruling, the Supreme Court lets the Trump administration end temporary protected status (TPS) for Venezuelan nationals while a legal challenge proceeds (National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela). | $cases: National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela |
| May 20, 2025 | The Department of Justice drops charges filed against Mayor Ras Baraka over his participation in a congressional oversight visit to an ICE detention facility. They instead file charges against Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), a member of the delegation, for allegedly assaulting ICE officers during Baraka’s arrest. | |
| May 21, 2025 | White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller demands a quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day, doubling the quotas announced in February 2025. | |
| May 21, 2025 | Kilmar Abrego Garcia (still in prison in El Salvador) is indicted for alleged human trafficking based on a 2022 traffic stop that led to no charges. A high-ranking DOJ prosecutor in Nashville abruptly resigns in protest (Abrego Garcia v. Noem; US v. Abrego Garcia). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem; US v. Abrego Garcia |
| May 23, 2025 | Federal judge Ana Reyes orders the Department of Homeland Security not to abolish several oversight offices, and the department confirms that it will keep them open (Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. DHS). | $cases: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. DHS |
| May 28, 2025 | Judge Talwani follows up her April 14 block on the Trump administration’s termination of CHNV parole by ordering the administration to resume processing immigration paperwork for people covered by several humanitarian programs, including those for US military family members (Svitlana Doe v. Noem). | $cases: Svitlana Doe v. Noem |
| May 30, 2025 | After an appeals court refuses — twice — to stay Judge Talwani’s block of the Trump administration’s termination of CHNV parole, the Supreme Court stays the block in an unsigned “shadow docket” ruling, pending the appeal court’s full ruling on the merits of the case (Svitlana Doe v. Noem). (Note: The Supreme Court’s ruling stays Judge Talwani’s April 14th order but doesn’t address her May 28th order.) | $cases: Svitlana Doe v. Noem |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Judge Boasberg orders the Trump administration to provide due process to the Venezuelan men it sent to CECOT after claiming they were members of Tren de Aragua (J.G.G. v. Trump). | $cases: J.G.G. v. Trump |
| Jun 4, 2025 | The Trump administration ends temporary protected status (TPS) for Cameroonian nationals living in the US. | |
| Jun 6, 2025 | The Trump administration returns Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US, to a jail in Tennessee, to face brand-new charges of human trafficking (Abrego Garcia v. Noem, US v. Abrego Garcia). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem; US v. Abrego Garcia |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Federal agents arrest union leader David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW, while he is observing an immigration raid. | |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Large scale anti-ICE protests ramp up in LA as immigration raids across Southern California intensify. | |
| Jun 6, 2025 | DHS Secretary Kristi Noem issues a notice terminating temporary protected status (TPS) for Nepali nationals. | |
| Jun 7, 2025 | In response to LA’s anti-ICE protests, Trump issues a memorandum that federalizes 2,000 members of the California National Guard and authorizes the Secretary of Defense to deploy them in Los Angeles, along with other active-duty armed forces. | |
| Jun 8, 2025 | ICE refuses entry to Democratic New York Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velazquez when they visit an immigrant detention area inside a Manhattan federal building. | |
| Jun 9, 2025 | The Pentagon mobilizes 700 Marines and 2,000 more National Guard troops to crack down on anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. | |
| Jun 9, 2025 | California Governor Gavin Newsom files a lawsuit against the Trump administration for federalizing and deploying the state’s National Guard without consulting him (Newsom v. Trump). | $cases: Newsom v. Trump |
| Jun 10, 2025 | The DC Circuit Court of Appeals pauses Judge Boasberg’s order requiring the Trump administration to provide due process to the Venezuelan men it sent to CECOT (J.G.G. v. Trump). | $cases: J.G.G. v. Trump |
| Jun 11, 2025 | The Department of Justice announces that they will prioritize denaturalization via civil litigation in cases in which naturalized citizens commit certain kinds of crimes, including national security violations and fraud. | |
| Jun 11, 2025 | DHS issues new guidance that ICE agents no longer have to document their justification for warrantless arrests. | |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) is indicted on three counts of forcibly “impeding and interfering with” ICE officers during the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at an immigration detention facility in Newark, NJ. | |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Secret Service agents drag Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) out of a DHS press conference when he attempts to speak about the Los Angeles immigration raids. | |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Federal Judge Charles Breyer orders the California National Guard returned to state control, ruling that the Trump administration violated the Constitution when it took control of state troops. An appeals court immediately stays that order and later extends the stay (Newsom v. Trump). | $cases: Newsom v. Trump |
| Jun 14, 2025 | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services comply with Trump administration demands to release private health data on Medicaid enrollees to the Department of Homeland Security, despite Medicaid officials’ objections about ethical and legal violations. | |
| Jun 15, 2025 | Volunteers at USC create a free hotline to help people with scheduled in-person immigration hearings to file motions to move their appointments online. | |
| Jun 17, 2025 | ICE arrests Brad Lander, New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate, when he asks them for a judicial warrant for the courthouse arrest of an immigrant. | |
| Jun 17, 2025 | An anti-ICE protest takes place at a California hotel where ICE agents are believed to be staying. | |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Adrian Andrew Martinez, a 20-year-old US citizen, is arrested for alleged “conspiracy to impede a federal investigation” after he confronts ICE agents during the forceful arrest of an elderly Latino worker in a Walmart parking lot. | |
| Jun 18, 2025 | ICE denies access to two members of Congress — Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) — conducting an oversight visit to detention areas in an ICE field office. | |
| Jun 18, 2025 | The State Department resumes issuing visas for foreign students. Applicants are required to set their social media accounts to “public” for government review. | |
| Jun 18, 2025 | ICE denies entry to Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, Jonathan Jackson, and Jesús G. “Chuy” García, four congressional Democrats from Illinois conducting an oversight visit to an ICE processing facility in Chicago’s Broadview suburb. | |
| Jun 18, 2025 | California National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests are sent 130 miles away to join a multi-agency drug raid on several cannabis farms, an expansion of the Trump administration’s domestic use of the military. | |
| Jun 18, 2025 | The Los Angeles Press Club, two unions, and several individuals sue the Trump administration, alleging that DHS has targeted, assaulted, and seriously injured journalists and demonstrators at protests against ICE raids in Southern California (LA Press Club v. Noem). | $cases: LA Press Club v. Noem |
| Jun 19, 2025 | An anti-ICE protest takes place at a field office in Portland, OR. Police arrest more than 20 protestors. | |
| Jun 19, 2025 | ICE changes its detention-center visitation policy (PDF) again, asking members of Congress to give at least 72 hours notice for oversight visits and asserting the authority to deny, cancel, and end such visits. A DHS spokeswoman then announces that oversight visits require a full week’s notice, in contradiction of federal law. | |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier uses his X.com account to announce a new immigration detention camp in the Everglades that he names “Alligator Alcatraz.” A few days later, the Florida Division of Emergency Management notifies Miami-Dade county that it is seizing property to build the facility. | |
| Jun 20, 2025 | On World Refugee day, Bishop-elect Michael Pham of San Diego and a delegation of clergy visit immigration courts where ICE agents are waiting to detain immigrants. When they see the delegation, ICE agents leave. | |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Mahmoud Khalil is freed on the orders of federal judge Michael Farbiarz after 104 days in detention. The Trump administration immediately appeals the decision (Khalil v. Joyce). | $cases: Khalil v. Joyce |
| Jun 21, 2025 | The Senate Parliamentarian strikes several immigration enforcement provisions from Congress’s budget bill, including one defunding sanctuary cities and another making it ruinously expensive to effectively challenge Trump administration immigration policies in court. A day later the Parliamentarian also strikes a provision that would extend the power of border security and immigration enforcement to the states. | |
| Jun 22, 2025 | Federal judge Barbara D. Holmes orders the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from prison in Tennessee while the Trump administration pursues new charges against him. But just a few days later, Abrego Garcia’s own lawyers request that he remain in federal custody for his safety, after the administration tells another judge it intends to immediately re-deport him should he be released (Abrego Garcia v. Noem, US v. Abrego Garcia). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem; US v. Abrego Garcia |
| Jun 23, 2025 | The Supreme Court grants the Trump administration’s emergency request to forgo due process before “third-country removals,” which are deportations to a country to which the deported people have no connection (D.V.D. v. DHS). | $cases: D.V.D. v. DHS |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Erez Reuveni, the DOJ attorney fired after admitting that Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation was an error, files a whistleblower disclosure claiming that the Trump administration both planned to and did defy federal court orders in immigration cases through “lack of candor, deliberate delay, and disinformation.” | |
| Jun 24, 2025 | The Trump administration sues every federal judge in Maryland over a May court order blocking the immediate deportation of immigrants who file habeas corpus petitions in the state. | |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Judge Talwani orders the Trump administration to confirm that it has done everything required to resume processing immigration paperwork for the class affected by the case before her. A week later, the government complies (Svitlana Doe v. Noem). | $cases: Svitlana Doe v. Noem |
| Jun 24, 2025 | A mother and two children — one a six-year-old with leukemia — sue the Trump administration after an immigration court dismissed their asylum case without hearing it. The family had been immediately arrested in the courthouse and sent to Texas for detention and expedited deportation (Z. v. Rodriguez). | $cases: Z. v. Rodriguez |
| Jun 24, 2025 | ICE changes its policy on temporary detention of immigrants, allowing detainees to be held for as long as 72 hours in facilities intended for brief stays. | |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Residents pack a city council meeting to speak out against a plan by ICE and private prison company CoreCivic to turn a 2,500 bed prison in California City into the state’s largest immigrant detention facility. | |
| Jun 26, 2025 | The US denies visas to the Cuban women’s volleyball team, barring them from an international tournament in Puerto Rico. | |
| Jun 27, 2025 | The Supreme Court approves the Trump administration’s request to limit nationwide injunctions against EO 14160, which ended birthright citizenship in the United States. The decision allows the possibility of class-wide injunctions in class action lawsuits, and plaintiffs immediately file for class certification (CASA v. Trump; Washington v. Trump). | $cases: CASA v. Trump; Washington v. Trump |
| Jun 27, 2025 | The Trump administration announces that it is terminating temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians in early September, arguing that it is now safe for them to return to Haiti. In the official notice of the action filed a few days later, they argue the opposite: that conditions in Haiti are so chaotic and dangerous that allowing Haitian nationals to remain here is “contrary to the U.S. national interest.” | |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Seven civil rights and immigration advocacy groups file a class-action lawsuit challenging EO 14160, which ends birthright citizenship (Barbara v. Trump). | $cases: Barbara v. Trump |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Two conservation nonprofits sue DHS, ICE, and Florida authorities for building the Everglades immigration detention camp known as “Alligator Alcatraz” without environmental review (Friends of the Everglades v. Noem). | $cases: Friends of the Everglades v. Noem |
| Jun 29, 2025 | The number of people held in US immigration detention centers reaches nearly 58,000. | |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Reports surface that major US employers including Amazon, Sam’s Club, and Walmart have begun firing Haitian workers whose immigration status is threatened. | |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Federal judge Brian Cogan blocks the Department of Homeland Security’s February 24 attempt to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian nationals by setting the TPS designation to expire six months early (Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association v. Trump). | $cases: Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association v. Trump |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Twenty US states sue the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security, claiming that HHS’s release of Medicaid data to DHS was a violation of federal health privacy laws, including HIPAA (California v. HHS). | $cases: California v. HHS |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Federal judge Randolph D. Moss blocks the Trump administration’s southern-border asylum ban (RAICES v. Noem). | $cases: Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services v. Noem |
| Jul 2, 2025 | ICE releases a six-year-old with leukemia and his family from detention following a lawsuit and a wave of public pressure (Z. v. Rodriguez). | $cases: Z. v. Rodriguez |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Three labor and immigration organizations and five people affected by ICE raids in Southern California file a class-action suit over the Trump administration’s arrest and detention practices, including ethnic profiling, denial of due process, and access to counsel (Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem). | $cases: Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem |
| Jul 3, 2025 | The Secretary of Defense approves the mobilization of 700 US Marines to support ICE operations in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas in response to a request from DHS. | |
| Jul 4, 2025 | Trump administration officials complete the deportation of eight men to South Sudan after a judge rules that the Supreme Court’s earlier decision allowing third-country deportations has tied his hands (D.V.D. v. DHS). | $cases: D.V.D. v. DHS |
| Jul 7, 2025 | DHS Secretary Kristi Noem issues notices terminating temporary protected status (TPS) for Honduran and Nicaraguan nationals, with official filings the following day. | |
| Jul 7, 2025 | The National TPS Alliance and individuals with TPS file suit against the Trump administration over the termination of TPS designations for Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua (National TPS Alliance v. Noem II, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua). | $cases: National TPS Alliance v. Noem II, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua |
| Jul 7, 2025 | CBP and ICE, under the protection of the National Guard, conduct “Operation Excalibur,” a dramatic immigration raid on a mostly empty public park in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a large immigrant population. | |
| Jul 8, 2025 | ICE issues a memo that strips millions of undocumented immigrants of the right to a hearing for release on bond, requiring that they remain in detention for the duration of their deportation cases — which can last months or even years. | |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Federal judge Joseph Laplante issues a nationwide block on the Trump administration’s attempt to end birthright citizenship and certifies a nationwide class made up of those who would be deprived of citizenship (Barbara v. Trump). | $cases: Barbara v. Trump |
| Jul 10, 2025 | The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) restricts access to the Head Start early childhood education program based on childrens’ immigration status as part of broader service exclusions affecting both undocumented and lawful immigrants. | |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Mahmoud Khalil files a $20M claim for false imprisonment against the DHS, ICE, and the State Department. | |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Reports surface that recent Department of Homeland Security bulletins frame common protest activities — such as livestreaming, riding a bike, skateboarding, or wearing a mask — as threats or precursors to violent attacks on police. | |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Violent federal immigration raids on two Southern California farms result in one death, many injuries, and hundreds of arrests, including of US citizens and workers whose managers and unions claim they have valid visas. | |
| Jul 11, 2025 | The State Department lays off more than 1,300 workers, including over a hundred who provide immigration- and refugee-related services. | |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Federal judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong in Southern California blocks immigration arrests without probable cause and orders that detained immigrants be given access to counsel (Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem). | $cases: Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem |
| Jul 11, 2025 | An appeals court allows the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants requesting asylum (PDF) without an immigration court hearing their claims (RAICES v. Noem). | $cases: Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services v. Noem |
| Jul 13, 2025 | An ICE memo asserts that the June Supreme Court “shadow docket” ruling in D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security has cleared the way for third-country deportations with as little as six hours’ notice and without assurance that detainees will be safe from torture or persecution (D.V.D. v. DHS). | $cases: D.V.D. v. DHS |
| Jul 16, 2025 | A group of immigrants and their legal advocates file a class-action lawsuit to stop courthouse arrests by ICE (Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative v. DOJ). | $cases: Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative v. DOJ |
| Jul 16, 2025 | Reports surface that the Trump administration has fired another 17 immigration court judges, bringing the estimated total firings to 65. With early retirements, resignations, and transfers, the total number of immigration judges removed from the system since January 20 reaches approximately 106, leaving about 600 judges to process a backlog of 3.7 million cases. | |
| Jul 18, 2025 | Over 250 Venezuelan citizens exiled from the US to CECOT by the Trump administration are released to Venezuela in a prisoner swap between Venezuela and the US. | |
| Jul 21, 2025 | The Department of Defense withdraws the 700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests. Members of the National Guard remain. | |
| Jul 23, 2025 | A federal court of appeals upholds Judge Coughenour’s nationwide block against the Trump administration’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, despite the Supreme Court’s narrowing of national injunctions against the order (Washington v. Trump). | $cases: Washington v. Trump |
| Jul 23, 2025 | Judge Xinis orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia released and grants him protection against immediate re-deportation (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Jul 25, 2025 | The Department of State updates visa requirements so that as of September 2, 2025, the majority of non-immigrant visa applications will require in-person interviews with consular officials. | |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Four immigrants and three advocacy organizations challenge the Trump administration’s policy preventing DHS detainees from being released on bond while their cases proceed (Bautista v. Santacruz). | $cases: Bautista v. Santacruz |
| July 28, 2025 | California District Court Judge Sunshine Sykes grants a temporary restraining order to four immigrants challenging DHS for detaining them without bond (Bautista v. Santacruz). | $cases: Bautista v. Santacruz |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Five Haitians living in the US with temporary protected status (TPS) sue the Trump administration over its termination of TPS for Haitian nationals (Lesly Miot v. Trump). | $cases: Lesly Miot v. Trump |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Federal judge Trina L. Thompson blocks the termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for citizens of Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua while a legal challenge proceeds (National TPS Alliance v. Noem II, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua). | $cases: National TPS Alliance v. Noem II, Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Federal judge Jia Cobb blocks the Trump administration’s expedited deportation of immigrants who entered the US legally through humanitarian parole processes (CHIRLA v. Noem). | $cases: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. Noem |
| Aug 1, 2025 | A federal appeals court upholds Judge Frimpong’s order blocking DHS from stopping individuals without reasonable suspicion, engaging in racial profiling, and denying detained people access to legal counsel (Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem). | $cases: Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem |
| Aug 2, 2025 | A panel of federal appeals court judges allows the Trump administration to broadly deny asylum claims but not to bar some immigrants fleeing torture and persecution from applying for other forms of humanitarian protection (RAICES v. Noem). | $cases: Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services v. Noem |
| Aug 4, 2025 | US Citizenship and Immigration Services announces that undocumented people who are related to US citizens or permanent residents and are in the process of applying for green cards will now be deportable. | |
| Aug 4, 2025 | The State Department announces a pilot program to charge visitors from some countries “visa bonds” of up to $15,000. | |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Federal judge Kathleen M. Williams pauses further construction at the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center (Friends of the Everglades v. Noem). | $cases: Friends of the Everglades v. Noem |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Federal judge Deborah L. Boardman grants class certification for children who were born to immigrant parents and would be ineligible for citizenship under EO 14160, and pauses Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship (CASA v. Trump). | $cases: CASA v. Trump |
| Aug 8, 2025 | Reports surface that the IRS has begun large-scale sharing of taxpayer data with the Department of Homeland Security to be used in immigration enforcement. | |
| Aug 8, 2025 | The Trump administration asks a federal appeals court to close remote access to the courtroom (PDF) in Newsom v. Trump to avoid revealing the identities of ICE agents and other federal personnel (Newsom v. Trump). | $cases: Newsom v. Trump |
| Aug 8, 2025 | A federal appeals panel blocks Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over their deportation of Venezuelan men to CECOT. On the same day, another appeals panel — sharing two of the same judges as the first — vacates Judge Boasberg’s order seeking to provide the men with due process and sends the matter back to the lower court for reconsideration based on the current state of the case (J.G.G. v. Trump). | $cases: J.G.G. v. Trump |
| Aug 8, 2025 | An immigrant detained at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan files suit against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging lack of medical care, lack of access to attorneys, and overcrowding (Barco Mercado v. Noem). | $cases: Barco Mercado v. Noem |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Federal judge Vince Girdhari Chhabria temporarily blocks the Department of Health and Human Services from sharing Medicaid recipients’ data with DHS for the purposes of immigration enforcement (California v. HHS). | $cases: California v. HHS |
| Aug 12, 2025 | District judge Lewis A. Kaplan orders ICE to improve conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan by reducing overcrowding and providing better hygiene, medical care, and access to lawyers (Barco Mercado v. Noem). | $cases: Barco Mercado v. Noem |
| Aug 13, 2025 | As part of the Trump administration’s takeover of Washington, DC’s police force, ICE sets up at least one immigration roadblock. DC police officers stop drivers on suspicion of minor traffic infractions and federal agents — some masked — check their papers. | |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Judge Williams issues a preliminary injunction stopping construction at the Everglades detention camp known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” preventing the intake of more detainees and ordering the takedown of fencing, lighting, power generation, and waste systems within 60 days (Friends of the Everglades v. Noem). | $cases: Friends of the Everglades v. Noem |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released. The next day, the Trump administration announces publicly that it will re-deport him to Uganda (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Judge Orrick grants a motion to add 34 cities and counties as plaintiffs in the suit against the Trump administration’s withdrawal of federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions. The judge extends his existing block against the administration’s actions to include these places (San Francisco v. Trump). | $cases: San Francisco v. Trump |
| Aug 25, 2025 | ICE re-arrests Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Baltimore and moves him to a detention center in Virginia. Abrego Garcia’s counsel immediately files a new habeas petition and Judge Xinis blocks his re-deportation pending a hearing (Abrego Garcia v. Noem). | $cases: Abrego Garcia v. Noem |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Reports surface of a violently suppressed detainee uprising in response to brutal conditions at the Everglades detention camp known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” | |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Federal judge Jia M. Cobb blocks the administration’s rapid deportation of immigrants detained in the interior of the US (Make the Road New York v. Noem). | $cases: Make the Road New York v. Noem |
| Aug 31, 2025 | Lawyers for several unaccompanied children from Guatemala file an emergency class action suit against the rapid deportation without due process of hundreds of children who share their status. Federal judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan immediately issues a temporary block, halting the deportation of dozens of children who had been taken from shelters in the middle of the night and loaded onto chartered planes bound for Guatemala (L.G.M.L. v. Noem). | $cases: L.G.M.L. v. Noem |
| Sept 2, 2025 | Judge Breyer blocks deployment of federal military troops as law enforcement in California as a breach of the Posse Comitatus Act (Newsom v. Trump). | $cases: Newsom v. Trump |
| Sept 2, 2025 | Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth approves sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to work as temporary immigration judges — this just five days after the administration lowered the employment standards for these positions. | |
| Sept 3, 2025 | A second attempt to censure Representative LaMonica McIver (NJ) and remove her from the House Committee on Homeland Security fails. The attempt was based on Rep. McIver’s alleged actions during the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at an immigration detention facility in Newark, NJ. | |
| Sept 3, 2025 | DHS announces that ICE is opening an immigration detention center within Angola, a former slave plantation and the nation’s largest maximum-security prison; fifty-one detainees have been transferred there. Angola has a long history of abuse and mistreatment and is being sued over brutal and dangerous prison labor conditions. | |
| Sept 4, 2024 | A federal appeals court temporarily stays Judge Breyer’s September 2 injunction (PDF) against the deployment of federal troops as law enforcement in California (Newsom v. Trump). | $cases: Newsom v. Trump |
| Sept 4, 2025 | A federal appeals court pauses Judge Williams’s order to cease construction and operations at the Florida Everglades detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The court agreed with the government’s claim that the detention center is not a federal operation and therefore not subject to federal environmental review rules (Friends of the Everglades v. Noem). | $cases: Friends of the Everglades v. Noem |
| Sept 4, 2025 | Using a warrant targeting four Latino workers, ICE raids a Hyundai/LG Energy battery plant being constructed in Georgia and arrests at least 475 people, most of them South Korean citizens on visas, but some of them — by ICE’s own admission — US citizens and lawful permanent residents. Three days later, the South Korean government reaches a deal with the US to release detained South Korean citizens, while Latino workers whose families claim they have valid work permits remain in detention. | |
| Sept 5, 2025 | Judge Chen blocks the administration’s termination of temporary protected status for Haitian and Venezuelan nationals, making a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. One week later, Judge Chen orders the administration to update the relevant federal website to clarify that the TPS holders are legally allowed to remain in the US (National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela). | $cases: National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela |
| Sept 5, 2025 | The Board of Immigration Appeals affirms an ICE policy change stripping millions of undocumented immigrants of their right to seek release on bond if they are ever detained. Under this decision, these immigrants will face mandatory detention for months or years as their cases proceed; a separate federal case is pending on this issue. | |
| Sept 8, 2025 | The Supreme Court stays Judge Frimpong’s ruling preventing the Trump administration from racially profiling Californians in immigration raids (Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem). | $cases: Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem |
| Sept 8, 2025 | The Trump administration announces a major deportation operation in Chicago. | |
| Sept 10, 2025 | Federal judge Hernán D. Vera orders DHS not to threaten or assault journalists and legal observers at protests in Southern California and not to use less-lethal weapons on anyone who doesn’t pose a threat of “imminent harm” (LA Press Club v. Noem). | $cases: LA Press Club v. Noem |
| Sept 12, 2025 | A federal appeals court allows the Trump administration to continue removal of legal status for more than 400,000 immigrants while their case against the government proceeds. The suit seeks to protect people covered by various humanitarian immigration pathways (CHNV parole, Operation Allies Welcome, and Uniting for Ukraine/U4U) (Svitlana Doe v. Noem). | $cases: Svitlana Doe v. Noem |
| Sept 12, 2025 | An ICE agent shoots and kills Mexican citizen Silverio Villegas González during an attempted immigration stop in Chicago. The government of Mexico and the governor of Illinois have since called for a full investigation into the shooting. | |
| Sept 17, 2025 | Immigration judge Jamee Comans orders that Mahmoud Khalil be deported to Syria or Algeria because of alleged omissions on his green card application (Khalil v. Joyce). | $cases: Khalil v. Joyce |
| Sept 17, 2025 | Judge Kaplan issues a preliminary injunction ordering ICE to continue improving conditions for detained immigrants held at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan (Barco Mercado v. Noem). | $cases: Barco Mercado v. Noem |
| Sept 18, 2025 | A federal appeals court upholds Judge Chen’s March 31 order blocking the termination of temporary protected status for Venezuelan and Haitian nationals. The next day, the Trump administration appeals the ruling to the Supreme Court (National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela). | $cases: National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela |
| Sept 18, 2025 | Federal judge Timothy J. Kelly blocks the rapid deportation of more than 300 unaccompanied Guatemalan children. The Trump administration had tried to deport the children in the middle of the night over Labor Day weekend, claiming their parents had asked for them to be returned to Guatemala — a claim the judge found false (L.G.M.L. v. Noem). | $cases: L.G.M.L. v. Noem |
| Sept 18, 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security arrests New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 other Democratic elected officials for attempting to inspect detainee conditions inside 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. DHS also arrests 70 protestors outside the building, including public advocate Jumaane D. Williams and other elected officials. | |
| Sept 19, 2025 | DHS claims its deportation operation in Chicago has resulted in about 550 arrests. During the resulting protests, federal agents fire tear gas and projectiles at demonstrators at its Broadview processing facility; video shows a masked agent throwing a congressional candidate to the ground. | |
| Sept 19, 2025 | The White House issues a proclamation that applications for H-1B visas must include a payment of $100,000, up from the $2,000–$5,000 in processing and filing fees previously paid by US employers. The next day, after widespread turmoil in the business world, the administration clarifies that the fee would not apply to current visa holders. | |
| Sept 19, 2025 | The White House issues a proclamation establishing a “Gold Card” wealth-based visa program in which individuals may pay the Department of Commerce $1 million — down from a proposed $5 million — for an expedited process to US permanent residency. | |
| Sept 23, 2025 | Reports surface that the Trump administration has fired 20 more immigration judges. Of the 700 judges working in the immigration courts as of early January, at least 125 have now been fired or have resigned, retired, or accepted reassignment; the courts are now so backlogged that some current cases will not be heard until 2029. | |
| Sept 23, 2025 | After two deaths at an ICE detention center in Georgia, Democratic Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff write a letter addressed to Kristi Noem at DHS and Todd Lyons at ICE (PDF) about conditions in detention centers and delays in publicly reporting fatalities. | |
| Sept 25, 2025 | Immigration organization CASA and four people living in Washington, DC, sue the Trump administration over its warrantless arrests in the District, which they allege operated via racial profiling and unjustly detained lawfully present noncitizens — sometimes for weeks — despite their lawful status (Escobar Molina v. DHS). | $cases: Escobar Molina v. DHS |
| Sept 26, 2025 | The Trump Administration requests expedited Supreme Court review of their appeals in two cases that blocked the executive order ending birthright citizenship. | |
| Sept 27, 2025 | President Trump announces on social media that he is sending National Guard troops into Portland, OR. The status of the order is unclear for several days as the president makes contradictory statements, but by October 1, Guard members appear to be training at a base on the Oregon coast in preparation for deployment. | |
| Sept 28, 2025 | Oregon and the City of Portland file suit against the Trump administration’s planned deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Portland, OR, for immigration enforcement (Oregon v. Trump). | $cases: Oregon v. Trump |
| Sept 29, 2025 | CoreCivic, a private prison company, announces contracts with ICE to re-open existing prisons in Leavenworth, KS, and California City, CA, as immigration detention centers despite an ongoing lawsuit and associated injunction preventing the Leavenworth facility from accepting detainees. | |
| Sept 29, 2025 | An ICE agent relieved from duty on September 26, pending investigation, returns to duty. He had been caught on video outside a Manhattan immigration court shoving a woman to the ground while other agents were arresting her husband. | |
| Sept 30, 2025 | Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a US citizen working in construction, files a class action complaint against DHS for arresting and detaining him twice, claiming wrongful detention due to racial profiling. The complaint asks that Venegas be allowed to sue on behalf of citizens and lawful residents who have been or will be subjected to warrantless immigration raids (Venegas v. Homan). | $cases: Venegas v. Homan |
| Sept 30, 2025 | In the early hours of September 30, 300 federal agents mount a military-style raid on a Chicago apartment building, with officers rappelling from helicopters, throwing flash-bang grenades, kicking down doors, and reportedly zip-tying children and separating them from their families. After violently detaining almost every adult and child in the 130-unit building, sorting them by apparent race, and holding them in vans for hours, DHS claims to have made a total of 37 arrests. | |
| Sept 30, 2025 | Federal judge William G. Young rules that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment in its attempts to detain and deport noncitizen students and professors who expressed support for Palestine. Judge Young also rules (PDF) that lawfully present noncitizens have the same First Amendment protections as US citizens (American Association of University Professors v. Rubio). | $cases: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio |
| Oct 1, 2025 | The US government partially shuts down, but ICE, Customs and Border Patrol, and immigration courts keep operating; unlike many other federal workers, ICE and CBP employees continue to be paid during the shutdown. US Citizenship and Immigration Services also stays open, but visa interviews, hiring eligibility checks, and other services may be delayed, adding to a pre-existing backlog. | |
| Oct 2, 2025 | The Labor Department warns that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is cutting off the supply of agricultural labor, thus harming farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans. As of 2022, roughly two-thirds of agricultural workers were noncitizen immigrants. | |
| Oct 3, 2025 | ICE deports Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language journalist known for livestreaming immigration raids, after 110 days in detention. Guevara, whose lawyers say he has a work permit and a Social Security number, was arrested on June 14 while livestreaming a “No Kings” protest near Atlanta, GA. | |
| Oct 3, 2025 | The Supreme Court issues a shadow-docket ruling allowing the Trump administration to strip the temporary protected status of Venezuelan nationals living in the US while a legal challenge proceeds, rendering hundreds of thousands of people immediately deportable (National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela). | $cases: National TPS Alliance v. Noem I, Haiti and Venezuela |
| Oct 3, 2025 | DHS claims to have arrested more than 1,000 undocumented people in its Chicago immigration enforcement “blitz.” No figures are provided on the number of lawfully present immigrants and US citizens detained during the raids. | |
| Oct. 3, 2025 | A coalition of labor, healthcare, higher education, and religious organizations sues the Trump administration in response to its September 19 proclamation requiring a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications, claiming that the order is unlawful under the Administrative Procedures Act (Global Nurse Force v. Trump). | $cases: Global Nurse Force v. Trump |
| Oct 4, 2025 | A US Border Patrol agent shoots Chicago resident Marimar Martinez after she allegedly uses her vehicle to ram and “box in” federal agents, according to DHS. After she is discharged from the hospital, the federal government charges Martinez with using her vehicle to assault and interfere with federal agents. | |
| Oct 4, 2025 | Illinois governor JB Pritzker announces that the Trump administration is taking control of the Illinois National Guard for use in support of DHS activity in Chicago. The following day, Gov. Pritzker announces that the administration is also deploying National Guard troops from Texas to Chicago. | |
| Oct 4, 2025 | Federal judge Karin J. Immergut temporarily blocks the Trump administration’s attempt to take control of the Oregon National Guard and deploy them to Portland, OR, for immigration enforcement. The following day, the administration deploys California National Guard troops to Oregon and attempts to send members of the Texas Guard, but Judge Immergut issues a second order blocking the use of any federalized troops in Oregon while the case proceeds (Oregon v. Trump). | $cases: Oregon v. Trump |
| Oct 6, 2025 | Several groups of Chicago journalists sue the federal government for its use of rubber bullets and tear gas against journalists covering demonstrations at the Broadview ICE facility. The suit comes shortly after Broadview officials announce that they have opened three criminal investigations into ICE’s activities (Chicago Headline Club v. Noem). | $cases: Chicago Headline Club v. Noem |
| Oct 6, 2025 | The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago file suit against the Trump administration’s attempt to take control of Illinois’s National Guard and deploy them, along with already federalized troops from Texas, for immigration enforcement in Chicago. Federal judge April Perry declines to immediately block the deployment until she has had more time to review the state’s request (Illinois v. Trump). | $cases: Illinois v. Trump |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Federal judge Sara Ellis issues a temporary restraining order forbidding arrests of journalists and nonviolent protestors — and the use of physical violence and chemical weapons against them — without probable cause or an immediate threat (Chicago Headline Club v. Noem). | $cases: Chicago Headline Club v. Noem |
| Oct 11, 2025 | A federal court of appeals allows the Trump administration to retain control of National Guard troops sent to Illinois but blocks their deployment in Chicago. Five days later, the court of appeals reaffirms and explains its ruling, and the day after that, the Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to contradict the appeals court’s ruling altogether (Illinois v. Trump). | $cases: Illinois v. Trump |
| Oct 11, 2025 | Catholic priests, nuns, and lay leaders attempting to deliver Holy Communion to detainees at the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago are turned away without explanation. The following day, a Chicago-area priest warns attendees at Sunday Mass about federal immigration agents outside the church, and neighbors form a human chain to guide parishioners safely home. | |
| Oct 12, 2025 | Federal agents at an ICE facility in Portland, OR, arrest a clarinetist playing the Ghostbusters theme song with her bandmates, many of whom were wearing banana costumes. The clarinetist was taken across state lines to the Clark County Jail in Vancouver, WA, where she spent three nights before being released pending further court proceedings. | |
| Oct 14, 2025 | The State Department announces on social media that it has revoked the visas of six foreign nationals (from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Paraguay, and South Africa) for their posts “celebrating” the death of right-wing influencer and Trump ally Charlie Kirk. | |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Federal agents arrest a comedian dressed in a giraffe onesie singing an anti-ICE version of Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” outside an ICE field office in Portland, OR. | |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Judge Ellis orders federal officers in Chicago to wear body cameras after she reviews footage suggesting that they are continuing to use the violent tactics she restricted in her restraining order on October 9, 2025. Four days later, Judge Ellis questions DHS officers about their continued use of force and chemical weapons (Chicago Headline Club v. Noem). | $cases: Chicago Headline Club v. Noem |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Three major labor unions sue the Trump administration over its massive inter-agency effort to surveil visa and green card holders on social media and silence those who express dissent (UAW v. Department of State). | $cases: UAW v. Department of State |
| Oct 16, 2025 | The Cook County, Illinois, Board of Commissioners issues an executive order (PDF) prohibiting ICE from using county “property, resources, and personnel for civil immigration enforcement activities.” | |
| Oct 16, 2025 | The US Chamber of Commerce, a business lobby, sues the Trump administration, challenging the new $100,000 H-1B visa application fee (Chamber of Commerce v. DHS). | $cases: Chamber of Commerce v. DHS |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Reports surface that at least 50 US citizens have been detained over their immigration status and about 130 have been arrested for allegedly assaulting officers or interfering in arrests. Detained citizens have been beaten, tased, and kicked, and many have been held for days without access to their families or lawyers. | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Protesters outside the Broadview ICE facility near Chicago claim that state police told them they could protest in the street but then attacked them with billy clubs for doing so. | |
| Oct 20, 2025 | A federal appeals court stays Judge Immergut’s order that paused federal deployment of the Oregon National Guard in Portland, OR, while the case proceeds. According to one of the three judges on the appeals panel — and Oregon’s governor — the judge’s second order, which blocks the deployment to Oregon of Guard troops from any state, remains in force, while the other two judges say that both orders are now inactive (Oregon v. Trump). | $cases: Oregon v. Trump |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Reports surface that the Trump administration is expanding its network of local and state police involved in immigration enforcement and is partnering with state and local organizations that handle environmental and marine protection, lottery oversight, gaming, and campus security at universities. This expansion adds to the roughly 35,000 members of the military deployed inside the US and the 14,500 federal law enforcement officers diverted to immigration enforcement. | |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Federal immigration agents shoot and then arrest citizen journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias (who streams on TikTok as Richard LA) while Parias is trapped in his boxed-in car. Agents also shoot a US Marshal during the arrest and aim their guns at LAPD officers arriving on the scene. | |
| Oct 22, 2025 | The day after DHS arrests nine foreign nationals and four American citizens during a chaotic raid in Manhattan’s Chinatown, New York Attorney General Letitia James launches a web portal to collect photo and video evidence from people observing ICE raids throughout the state. | |
| Oct 22, 2023 | The Illinois Secretary of State announces a “Plate Watch Hotline” after reports of illegal license-plate swapping by DHS agents in Chicago. The next day, Governor JB Pritzker announces the Illinois Accountability Commission to “create a public record of the conduct of federal agents during ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ and the Trump Administration’s military-style operations throughout the Chicagoland area.” | |
| Oct 23, 2025 | A Washington, DC, protester arrested for following a National Guard patrol while playing the Star Wars Imperial March sues the District of Columbia, four police officers, and a member of the Ohio National Guard (O’Hara v. Beck). | $cases: O’Hara v. Beck |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh is indicted with five others on charges of impeding federal officers and conspiring to do so after she allegedly banged on ICE vehicles during a protest at the Broadview, IL, ICE facility on September 26, 2025 (US v. Rabbitt). | $cases: US v. Rabbitt |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Reports surface that DHS and the Department of Defense will funnel $10 billion through the US Navy to hire private companies to build and maintain migrant detention camps that will hold up to 10,000 detainees each. | |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Reports surface that the Trump administration is purging ICE field office directors, with plans to remove 12 of 25 directors and replace at least 6 of them with officers from Customs and Border Patrol, an agency associated with many of the most aggressive raids in US cities. | |
| Oct 28, 2025 | A majority of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals votes to re-hear the appeal of a district court’s ruling that blocked National Guard deployments to Portland, OR. This decision vacates a previous decision by two appeals court judges; a larger panel will now hear the appeal (Oregon v. Trump). | $cases: Oregon v. Trump |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Following on her order requiring immigration agents to wear body cameras and identification, Judge Ellis clarifies (PDF) that CBP agents must wear both body cameras and conspicuous, unobscured identification numbers — and that CBP Commander Gregory Bovino must himself wear a body camera and provide daily reports on use of force in Chicago. Three days later, a federal appeals court blocks the requirement that Bovino report to the judge daily (Chicago Headline Club v. Noem). | $cases: Chicago Headline Club v. Noem |
| Oct 29, 2025 | 404 Media publishes a statement from House Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D-MS) that DHS agents are using the Mobile Fortify facial recognition app for “definitive” proof of immigration status, superseding proof of citizenship including US birth certificates. This follows recent video evidence of ICE and CPB agents using the app during “Kavanaugh stops” in US cities. | |
| Oct 29, 2025 | IRS documents reveal that ICE requested information about 1.27 million taxpayers, more than 47,000 of whom the IRS deemed matches for people ICE was seeking (Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS). | $cases: Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS |
| Oct 30, 2025 | The Trump Administration slashes the number of refugees the US will admit from 125,000 in 2022–2025 to 7,500 in 2026, with strong preference given to (white) Afrikaners from South Africa, who the administration claims face “unjust racial discrimination.” | |
| Oct 30, 2025 | In Ontario, CA, an ICE officer shoots 25-year-old Carlos Jimenez, who had pulled over to ask immigration agents to move away from an area where children would soon be waiting for their school bus. Lawyers for Jimenez, a US citizen, say he was on his way to work when he stopped to help and was shot as he tried to leave; federal officials say that Jimenez tried to run over agents with his car and have charged him with assault. | |
| Oct 30, 2025 | In the days before Halloween, people in tactical gear and presumed to be federal immigration agents wear horror-themed masks in Los Angeles, CBP agents in Chicago drag a 67-year old man from his car and break his ribs in front of children who had gathered for a Halloween parade, and an Alabama sheriff comes under scrutiny for racist immigration-themed holiday decorations. | |
| Oct 30, 2025 | US Citizenship and Immigration Services ends automatic extensions for work permits. USCIS takes more than 180 days to process 54% of all work permit applications; without extensions to accommodate this long-standing backlog, thousands of lawfully present immigrants will lose their ability to work. | |
| Oct 31, 2025 | DHS formalizes and expands the use of its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) tool to purge state voter rolls of suspected noncitizens. SAVE relies on notoriously patchy and unaccountable datasets and was not designed for voter verification; it could bar many US citizens from voting and expose their data to breaches and misuse. | |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Two nonprofit organizations, Campaign Legal Center and American Oversight, sue DHS, the Social Security Administration, and USCIS for information on the transformation of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) tool into a consolidated — but dangerously incomplete — voter verification system (Campaign Legal Center v. SSA; Campaign Legal Center v. USCIS; Campaign Legal Center v. DHS). | $cases: Campaign Legal Center v. Social Security Administration; Campaign Legal Center v. US Citizenship and Immigration Services; Campaign Legal Center v. DHS |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 404 Media publishes a Department of Homeland Security document stating that DHS agents will not permit anyone — including US citizens — to refuse to have their faces scanned with Mobile Fortify, a facial recognition app that will store images for 15 years. | |
| Nov 2, 2025 | After a three-day trial, Judge Immergut issues a preliminary ruling that the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard to Portland, OR, is probably unlawful, with a final ruling planned for November 7 (Oregon v. Trump). | $cases: Oregon v. Trump |
| Nov 3, 2025 | DHS proposes a rule (PDF) that vastly expands the agency’s collection of biometric data, including face and iris scans, voice prints, and DNA. Under this rule, DHS will require biometrics from “any applicant, petitioner, sponsor, supporter, derivative, dependent, beneficiary, or individual filing or associated with a benefit request or other request or collection of information,” including US citizens, green card holders, and children. | |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Judge Ellis issues a preliminary injunction blocking the use of force against peaceful protesters, journalists, and other observers of immigration enforcement in Chicago, finding that the Trump administration’s evidence in support of their violent response is “simply not credible” (Chicago Headline Club v. Noem). | $cases: Chicago Headline Club v. Noem |
| Nov 6, 2025 | A jury finds a Washington, DC, Air Force veteran who threw a sandwich at a Border Patrol agent not guilty of misdemeanor assault. The man stated that he was trying to distract agents from conducting an immigration raid on a nearby gay club holding a “Latin” night. | |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Secretary of State Marco Rubio issues new guidance to US consulates and embassies widely expanding criteria for visa denials, including chronic health issues, like heart disease and diabetes, as well as their age, number of dependents, and weight. | |
| Nov 7, 2025 | Judge Immergut issues a final order permanently blocking the administration from deploying federalized National Guard troops in Portland, OR (Oregon v. Trump). | $cases: Oregon v. Trump |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Reports surface that some recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have been targeted by immigration enforcement despite DACA’s legal protections from detention and deportation. An advocacy organization has assembled media reports of nearly 20 DACA recipients detained in 2025. | |
| Nov 12, 2025 | After a near-unanimous vote, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops condemns the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement practices. In their statement they raise concerns about inhumane conditions in detention centers, fear and anxiety in their communities, and “arbitrary” revocations of immigration status, and they state their opposition to mass deportation, calling for “meaningful immigration reform.” | |
| Nov 12, 2025 | A group of 40 congressional Democrats urge 19 Democratic governors to block ICE’s access to a law enforcement database of drivers license and registration information, which ICE and DHS have used for almost 900,000 searches in the year prior to October 1, 2025. | |
| Nov 12, 2025 | The Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes an official notice (PDF) that it will share citizenship and immigration information with DHS, corroborating reports that it has been sharing this data. | |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Judge Frimpong rules that federal immigration agencies have partly blocked detainees’ access to legal counsel in Los Angeles and extends her earlier order requiring the government to allow lawyers to see their clients (Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem). | $cases: Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem |
| Nov 14, 2025 | The Department of Justice discloses a list of 614 Chicago residents arrested early in its immigration raids; though it claims to have targeted violent criminals, only 2.6% of the arrestees have criminal records. The next day, reports surface that DHS agents in Chicago are racially profiling, detaining, and arresting US citizens and green card holders. | |
| Nov 14, 2025 | State and local police arrest 21 peaceful protesters, including at least 7 members of the clergy, for standing outside a protest zone at the Broadview DHS detention facility. | |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Local tribal leaders confirm that DHS is seeking to house detained immigrants in facilities on tribal reservations in Washington State, where the state would lack authority, and the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment, would not apply. | |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Reports surface that the Trump administration is drafting policy to make it more difficult for immigrants from countries on the travel ban list to obtain green cards. This change would apply not only to new applicants but to those already in the US. | |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Federal agents led by Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino descend on Charlotte, NC, reportedly taking local officials by surprise and arresting 81 people. Mecklenburg County, where Charlotte is located, stopped collaborating with ICE after electing a new sheriff in 2018, but in 2024 a Republican supermajority in the General Assembly overrode the governor’s veto to pass a state-wide law mandating cooperation. | |
| Nov 16, 2025 | A New York Times investigation reveals that the Trump administration’s mass reassignments of DHS agents to immigration enforcement have compromised public safety work and efforts to combat child sexual abuse, human trafficking, and terrorism. | |
| Nov 17, 2025 | Nearly 30,000 children (or about 21% of all enrolled students) are reported absent from schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, where immigration enforcement agencies claim to have arrested more than 130 people. | |
| Nov 17, 2025 | A report surfaces that DOJ attorneys have been briefed on plans for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol to raid Spanish-speaking churches during the winter holiday season. One attorney says that, following Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor in New York City, the plan has expanded to include mosques and “liberal synagogues.” | |
| Nov 18, 2025 | 404 Media reports that an ICE contractor is launching a pilot program to enlist members of the general public to physically locate immigrants for a payment of $300 per verified address. |
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