Contrary to the “worst of the worst” posturing presented by the Trump administration, it’s long been known that immigrants (both legal or otherwise) commit fewer crimes than natur…
New report shows the economic toll of ICE raids
A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.
ICE Arrests Ramp Up, Which Only Continues To Prove Most Migrants Aren’t Criminals
Public furor is hard to maintain. It takes a concerted effort from people who have a lot to lose. Not only do they not have anything to gain (financially or otherwise) from engaging in protests, bu…
ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted
As immigration arrests hit record highs, ICE appears closer than ever to meeting its goal of 2,000 daily arrests.
ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted
As immigration arrests hit record highs, ICE appears closer than ever to meeting its goal of 2,000 daily arrests.
10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies
A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.
ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice
Every year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subjects hundreds of thousands of people to civil immigration detention—a practice that is unjust, inhumane, and completely unnecessary. It does so under a veil of secrecy, sharing only limited, often error-prone statistics with the public. ICE’s failure to regularly release accurate, complete, and accessible data to the public enables it to operate its multi-billion-dollar detention network with impunity and little oversight.
ICE Detained Them, and Then They Vanished
Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys unsure where they are.
USA: « We had whistles, they had guns »: Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and the Case to Abolish ICE
Amnesty International has documented that, since taking office on 20 January 2025, the Trump administration has subjected migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to a wide range of human rights violations. The administration is implementing a mass detention and deportation system, fuelled by racist, xenophobic and false narratives and white supremacist theories, whose objective is to […]
Opinion | A terrifyingly common ICE tactic targets lawful green card applicants
Arresting legal immigrants at their immigration appointments has become part of a new and terrifyingly common strategy for immigration enforcement.
ICE Is Spending More Time Targeting The Least Dangerous People In America
The “worst of the worst” ruse was never taken seriously by anyone, least of all those who performatively repeated it to serve as cover for their hatred and bigotry. The mantra means not…
Worst of the Worst - 152 Criminal ICE and Border Agents — Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Video recording, final report, data, and other content from the release of OIA’s new report, “The Worst of the Worst: 152 Sexually and Physically Abusive ICE and Border Agents; Implications for U.S. Communities and Actions Needed from Congress.”
Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records
The Trump administration has cited a more than 1,000% increase in assaults on immigration agents to justify aggressive tactics. But court records reviewed by The Times show the majority of the alleged assaults in the areas where ICE and Border Patrol have been most active resulted in no injuries.
Yet Again, The Data Shows Migrants Are More Law-Abiding Than US Citizens
This has always been the truth. And it has always been ignored by people like Donald Trump, who combine “if it bleeds, it leads” media narratives with the always-exploitable fear of …
‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish
Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts
Why do Latinos work for ICE?
Half of border agents are Latino, and they are part of a long history of Hispanic support for – and enforcement of – harsh immigration policies
USA: "We had whistles, they had guns": Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and the Case to Abolish ICE - Amnesty International
Amnesty International has documented that, since taking office on 20 January 2025, the Trump administration has subjected migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to a wide range of human rights violations. The administration is implementing a mass detention and deportation system, fuelled by racist, xenophobic and false narratives and white supremacist theories, whose objective is to […]
