Human Impact Project

Florencio, a Guatemalan immigrant who had lived in the U.S. for nearly 13 years and worked as a painter, was arrested by ICE agents in Corona, Queens while walking home from a job painting an apartment in Manhattan. His wife, Fidelina, and their three children witnessed the arrest from their doorway as agents tackled him, twisted his ankle, and handcuffed him before placing him in an unmarked vehicle. Agents had been searching for a different man of Ecuadorian descent but detained Florencio anyway, telling him his lack of papers made the mistake irrelevant. Court records show Florencio disputes ICE's claim that he admitted to illegally crossing the border, saying he was already restrained when questioned. He was held in detention for four months before being separated from his family. His case is among hundreds of street arrests in New York and New Jersey between October 2025 and March 2026, with more than 93% of detainees who filed legal challenges being from Latin American countries.

Francisca's partner and father of her five children was taken by ICE on June 20, 2026, and subsequently deported. Francisca now faces the burden of supporting her children—including a 2-year-old—while also navigating support for her deported partner. The family struggled to pay rent and basic necessities including food, diapers, and utilities after his removal.

An immigrant who entered the United States without inspection on November 17, 2023, was initially detained and released two days later. On June 20, 2026, he was re-detained by ICE during a routine check-in appointment without explanation. The federal court granted his habeas petition, finding that his prior release created a liberty interest in continued release and that re-detention without a pre-deprivation hearing violated due process. The court ordered his immediate release and enjoined ICE from re-detaining him without notice and a hearing before an immigration judge.

José de Jesús Cortez Delgado, a Mexican national, was detained on June 20 after federal marshals dressed as municipal electrical workers approached him in South Los Angeles, claiming they needed him to move his vehicle so they could work on a light pole. When Cortez Delgado moved his truck, armed agents emerged from unmarked vehicles and arrested him at gunpoint. According to DHS, Cortez Delgado had been wanted on a murder charge from December 2020 in Nevada and had remained in the United States without authorization since his tourist visa expired in October 1999. However, activist Ron Gochez reported that Cortez Delgado's wife claimed the charges had been dropped and her husband had no outstanding legal issues. After his arrest, Cortez Delgado was transferred to ICE custody.

A Honduran national was deported to Honduras on June 20, 2026, following completion of a Texas prison sentence and a final removal order issued by a Department of Justice immigration judge. According to ICE, he entered the United States at an unknown time and location. He was arrested by Irving Police in January 2024 and again in June 2025 by the Colleyville Police Department, with charges later reduced by prosecutors. He was convicted in December 2025 and sentenced to two years in prison, after which the Texas Department of Criminal Justice transferred him to ICE custody in May 2026.

ICE conducted a targeted enforcement operation near Aurora Avenue and Shoreline Street in Seattle on June 20, 2026, resulting in the arrest of four Mexican nationals. Emmanuel Perez-Martinez, 33, was arrested and is pending voluntary departure to Mexico. Juan Ruiz-Perez, 61, and Jose Gutierrez-Diaz, 47, were arrested and detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center pending return to Mexico. A fourth individual, Jose Gutierrez-Villanueva, 24, was also detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center pending an immigration hearing.

Jander Alexander Cordero-Silva, 29, was stopped by Gainesville Police on May 18 for driving with a suspended license. He told officers a judge had told him his license was not suspended three days prior, but his license was under administrative suspension by Florida for accumulating points and financial obligations. He was arrested and charged with driving with a suspended or revoked license, a second-degree misdemeanor. On June 18, he pleaded no contest and was convicted; the judge imposed a time-served sentence but he remained in custody on an ICE hold. He was transferred to ICE custody two days later and held at Baker Correctional Institute.

A man was arrested after ICE officers disguised as electric company workers knocked on his door and asked him to move his pickup truck under the pretense of fixing streetlights. When he stepped outside, approximately eight additional officers emerged and apprehended him.

A Venezuelan woman with active Temporary Protected Status was arrested and has remained detained at Eloy Detention Center for nearly nine months. Court filings show a federal government attorney acknowledged her legal status, yet she continues to be held in custody.

Franklin Humberto Coral-Garrido, a Colombian activist and lawyer aligned with President Gustavo Petro, was detained by ICE on June 16-17, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona while walking with his 12-year-old son. Coral entered the U.S. in December 2015 on a B1/B2 tourist visa valid for six months but remained in the country for approximately ten years. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a memorandum authorizing his detention and deportation, citing his political activities supporting Petro and opposition to right-wing presidential candidate Abelardo De la Espriella as harmful to U.S. foreign policy interests. Colombian President Petro accused the U.S. of political persecution timed to interfere in Colombia's June 21 presidential runoff election and demanded clarification from the Trump administration. Coral had filed an asylum application in 2016 and held work authorization through 2028 granted by a federal judge, but authorities allegedly informed him the authorization was being canceled. He has been transferred between detention facilities in Phoenix, El Paso, and Louisiana pending formal deportation proceedings.

Daniel Adongo, 36, a Kenyan native who became the first Kenyan-born player in the NFL after signing with the Indianapolis Colts in 2013, was deported by ICE to Kenya after years of visa overstay following his departure from the league in 2015. He was detained at the Miami Correctional Facility in Indiana before his removal. Over the following decade, Adongo was arrested multiple times for offenses including felony intimidation, battery, disorderly conduct, and criminal mischief. In 2017 he was found incompetent to stand trial and committed to a psychiatric hospital, and in 2020 he was convicted of criminal mischief and served six months in jail. His mother, Betty Adongo, and his attorneys attributed his legal troubles to mental illness and possible traumatic brain injury from his football career, with medical evaluations noting acute psychosis and potential chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). An immigration judge issued a final removal order in March 2025, and ICE carried out his deportation in June 2025.

Lucy's husband was deported by ICE to Mexico, leaving Lucy and their four children without his income. Lucy is seeking financial support for rent, groceries, and family stability while she works additional jobs to support the family.

Izzy Aly, a 40-year-old legal immigrant with an active green card application and an Orlando-area Libertarian Party activist and media consulting firm owner, was detained by ICE at Philadelphia International Airport upon returning from an approved USCIS-sanctioned trip to Egypt to settle his late father's estate. He spent six months at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania, where a medical exam found stage 3 kidney disease, though he was not informed of the diagnosis until months later. Advocates allege ICE denied him adequate treatment, limiting him to only two nephrologist visits, threatening him with solitary confinement when he raised COVID concerns, and housing him in crowded pods with viral infections; he also reported seeing blood in his urine. Immigrant rights groups, members of Congress, and public figures pushed for his release, and he was freed on June 19, 2026, after which he met with U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, who had previously conducted an oversight visit to the facility. Aly, now back in Florida without health insurance, continues to pursue his legal appeal while recovering from trauma and advocating for the detention center's closure.

Cameron Kennedy, a Minneapolis resident who monitored ICE activity in the city, is one of 15 defendants facing a federal indictment for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers during Operation Metro Surge, with an arraignment scheduled for July 1. Prosecutors allege Kennedy and co-defendants, some linked to groups including Direct Action Minnesota and the Black Cat Worker Collective, coordinated protest actions such as blockades and surveillance of ICE operations via encrypted communications. Kennedy, who says he has protested government policies since age 15 and was previously arrested at a 2008 Iraq War protest in St. Paul, faces up to six years in prison but says no defendant, including himself, is accused of violence. Other co-defendants face additional charges such as assault on a federal officer and interstate stalking.

Colombian activist Franklin Humberto Coral Garrido was deported to Colombia on July 16, 2026, after a memo signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio requested his removal based on foreign policy concerns. Coral, who had entered the U.S. on a B1/B2 visa in 2015 and remained without authorization for nearly a decade, withdrew his pending asylum request and voluntarily departed. Rubio's memo cited sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allow deportation when a foreign national's presence threatens U.S. foreign policy interests.

Katsiaryna Bartko, a 33-year-old Belarusian thyroid cancer survivor, has been held by ICE since early June 2026, most recently at the CoreCivic-run Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kansas. She requires daily hormone medication and calcium supplements for permanent hypoparathyroidism and chronic hypocalcemia following cancer surgery, but her partner, Dmitry Shyshov, says she was initially denied her prescribed medications despite intake records documenting her needs. She was hospitalized three times in four days, once in acute distress requiring intravenous calcium, and lab records showed her thyroid-stimulating hormone soaring to over 31 times normal. A Harvard endocrinologist and an independent physician with Physicians for Human Rights both warned her continued detention is medically unsafe, risking organ failure, coma, or death. Bartko entered the U.S. legally on an F-1 student visa in March 2022 and filed for asylum in 2023, citing persecution over her pro-democracy activism and opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine; she was detained in Florida after local domestic battery charges against her were dropped and has never been convicted of a crime. She was placed in solitary isolation days before a federal court hearing, and a judge has ordered the government to bring her to a Kansas City courthouse to hear her petition for release.

Victor Martin was arrested by ICE agents on June 19, 2026, after they stopped him as he left his driveway. The agents aggressively tailgated his vehicle until forcing him to stop. He is currently detained at Stewart Detention Center alongside his wife, leaving his four children, ages 12, 14, 22, and 24, without parental support and facing significant financial strain.

Alejandra Santiago was stopped by ICE agents while leaving for work on June 19, 2026. Four ICE vehicles cornered her car, and agents removed her from the vehicle, questioned her, confiscated her phone, handcuffed her, and transported her to her home where her husband was also arrested. She is currently detained at Stewart Detention Center, leaving her four children, ages 12, 14, 22, and 24, to manage mortgage payments, attorney fees, and care for the two younger minors.

Three people were arrested during an ICE operation on June 19, 2026 in the Rio Grande section of Middle Township, according to Cape May Immigrant Support. Federal and local officials did not confirm the arrests or provide details about those detained. The operation prompted members of the Spanish-speaking community in the area to stay away from work or keep children home out of fear.

Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, a Venezuelan asylum-seeker and data analyst for the New York City Council, was arrested by ICE on January 12, 2026, during a routine appointment at the Bethpage Asylum Office on Long Island. He had Temporary Protected Status, no criminal record, and was authorized to work in the U.S. until October, according to City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who disputed ICE's claim he lacked work authorization. The New York Legal Assistance Group filed a habeas corpus petition on his behalf, and protesters gathered outside the Manhattan federal building where he was initially held. He was later moved through several detention facilities, denied bond on February 2, and ultimately granted asylum by an immigration judge on May 2. Rubio was released on $5,000 bond on June 19 after 158 days in custody; DHS has appealed the asylum ruling. Menin said he "had done nothing wrong" and was "wrongfully in ICE detention for months on end."