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An 18-month-old girl named Amalia fell gravely ill while detained with her parents at the Dilley ICE center and was hospitalized for severe respiratory failure. After discharge, she was returned to custody and reportedly denied her prescribed medication. Her family's attorneys filed a lawsuit, stating the child should never have been detained.
Donna Hughes-Brown, a lawful permanent resident since childhood, was arrested at O'Hare International Airport and detained for 143 days based on two bad checks totaling less than $75 written over a decade earlier. She was held in filthy conditions with insects and feces in the cell. An immigration judge eventually granted her application to stop removal and she was released at the end of the year.
An Instagram post shares a TikTok video allegedly showing ICE agents conducting a raid on Don Chilaquiles food vendor stand, detaining workers, and then returning to seize the cash box. The post questions the legality and accountability of the enforcement action, suggesting the seizure of money goes beyond immigration enforcement.
American travelers are reporting that their valid U.S. passports have been mysteriously canceled upon arrival at foreign border crossings without their knowledge. Cases include a traveler in Rome who was flagged due to an Interpol alert for a stolen passport she claims never occurred, and another traveler deported from Thailand after similar flags. The State Department has not issued a formal statement, and travelers have no way to verify if their passports are flagged before traveling.
A 25-year-old paraprofessional at a special education school in Inver Grove Heights was taken into custody early Monday after an apparent collision with a federal vehicle in the parking lot of Concord Education Center. She was held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility at Fort Snelling for nearly 12 hours before being released pending an investigation. Her mother reported a lack of communication during the detention, and U.S. Rep. Angie Craig's office called the detention shocking.
Hugo, a father of five and husband of a U.S. citizen veteran who had lived in the U.S. since age 16, was detained by ICE at a courthouse during what should have been a final hearing for permanent residency. Despite being in an active legal process and authorized to be in the U.S., officials ordered him to continue his case from Mexico and deported him. ICE later admitted the detention was a mistake, but Hugo has been separated from his family.
A 15-year-old boy in Maryland died from cancer just days after his mother was detained by ICE early Saturday morning outside her workplace. The mother, who had no criminal record or prior deportation history, was transferred to a holding facility in Baltimore, and was not permitted to leave custody to see her son before he passed away. The family has been unable to obtain her release despite repeated requests to ICE and legal efforts.
Five enrolled members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis while homeless near the Little Earth housing complex. The men were taken into custody without their names being recorded. The tribe has contacted Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan to locate the detainees and confirm their identities, and has issued guidance to members on asserting their citizenship rights.
An 18-year-old Naples resident named Holden Manning was arrested after authorities say he made threats against ICE agents on social media. Manning is charged with written threats on social media, a second-degree felony in Florida. He is currently in custody in the Collier County Jail without bond awaiting his next court appearance.
Fortino Castillo was detained and deported on Thursday morning while working his fruit stand at Tony Cerda Park in Pomona. He had been an active community member for 5 years and is the main provider for his family.
Alberto Cabral, a 73-year-old landscaper, was detained by ICE agents on Gardner Avenue in West Hollywood while working his regular landscaping route. According to witnesses and community members, Cabral has lived in the U.S. since age 15 and is the primary income source for his 97-year-old mother and 70-year-old wife. He suffers from serious medical conditions including heart disease and diabetes, and recently sustained work-related injuries including fractures and an open wound.
A 5-year-old girl identified as a U.S. citizen was taken into ICE custody along with her mother after Austin police responded to a disturbance call and identified the mother with an ICE administrative warrant. The family has been unable to locate the child in government databases and is seeking custody arrangements so she can stay with relatives while her mother remains detained.
According to a social media post, Border Patrol allegedly illegally arrested a U.S. citizen. The family reportedly does not know the whereabouts of the arrested individual. The incident was shared on Instagram with a video documenting the situation.
A same-sex female couple in Pennsylvania is experiencing what they describe as a "Kafkaesque nightmare" after one woman was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a regularly scheduled immigration check-in. The detainee was transferred to a detention center in California.
A five-year-old U.S. citizen named Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos disappeared after being transferred to ICE custody following her mother's arrest on Monday morning. The child does not appear in ICE, ORR, CPS, or any Central Texas immigration detention facility databases. Family members are calling on the San Antonio ICE field office to locate the child so custody arrangements can be made while her mother remains detained.
The owner of La Playa Taco Shop, a decades-old Mexican food institution in San Diego's Pacific Beach, was deported following detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The case had sparked widespread community concern and support in the previous months.
Flor Ivet Vargas-Loya, a DACA recipient and mother of two, was detained while shopping at a T.J. Maxx store in Arizona, according to Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari. The incident was reported by 12 News Arizona.
Ahmed, a nursing student and certified nursing assistant with legal status and a work permit, was detained by ICE while attending a routine immigration check-in that he had consistently complied with. He has no criminal history and immigrated to the United States around 2023 from Dadaab refugee camps. Project Relief is raising funds for legal representation to secure his release and prevent his transfer to another state.
Faith leaders in New York are calling for the release of Allan Dabrio, a gay asylum seeker who was detained by ICE during a green card interview. Advocates report that ICE has failed to provide Dabrio with prescribed medication for anxiety and depression, raising concerns about his health and wellbeing while in detention.
Vilma Palacios was detained by immigration agents in Belle Chasse days after graduating from LSU nursing school in Spring. The incident was reported on an Instagram post by fox8nola with a link to more information.
A Houstonian who fled Honduras due to threats related to his sexual orientation was detained by ICE. Political groups have spoken out against the detention, calling it a travesty.
Miguel Garcia Pazaran and his wife Dulce Maria Trejo Segura were pulled over by immigration agents while driving to work in Hillsboro, Oregon and detained without proper clothing. The couple was taken to a detention center in Tacoma and deported to Mexico within eight days, leaving behind their 2-year-old daughter Sofía, who is a U.S. citizen.
A Bulgarian business owner who had lived in Chicago for decades was arrested during an immigration enforcement operation and subsequently died while in ICE custody at a private prison in Michigan. The ABC7 I-Team reported on the incident.
A Ukrainian woman, Viktoriia Bulavina, was arrested by federal immigration agents while attending her scheduled green card interview at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in downtown San Diego. Bulavina entered the country in 2022 through a Biden-era humanitarian parole program for Ukrainians displaced by the war and was married to a U.S. citizen. Immigration attorneys report that such arrests at immigration appointments are becoming increasingly common.
Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was convicted of obstructing federal agents from arresting an undocumented immigrant. Dugan allegedly helped an undocumented immigrant leave her courtroom in April to avoid arrest by ICE agents waiting in the hallway. She was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge.
Community organizers in Fontana, California are providing legal representation and mental health support resources to an Indigenous family. The post characterizes the situation as state-sanctioned racial violence against an Indigenous population in the context of immigration enforcement.
Viktoriia Bulavina, a Ukrainian immigrant married to a U.S. citizen and applying for permanent residency, was arrested by ICE immediately after a green card interview in downtown San Diego. She was detained for three days in poor conditions, including an open toilet in view of guards, expired food, and denial of medication. Federal immigration officials released her after media coverage and attorney intervention.
A 33-year-old Guatemalan man was illegally deported from El Paso despite an immigration judge's order barring his removal. A federal judge ordered his reinstatement, stating ICE acted with "blatant lawlessness." He was returned to El Paso from Guatemala City, though DHS officials indicated plans to deport him to a third country willing to accept him.
Jose Gomez and his 13-year-old son left their Eden Prairie apartment on a Thursday morning to move their car after a snowstorm. An unmarked SUV pulled up alongside them with police lights, and the father told his son to run as a second SUV arrived. The incident was reported by WCCO news.
Three women known as "Las Tres Guerreras" or the "Baldwin Park Three" (Akalei Brown, Cynthia Saragoza, and Sandia) were charged by the Department of Homeland Security in September 2025 for documenting an ICE agent during a community watch patrol. They face charges including conspiracy and doxxing with potential sentences exceeding 10 years in federal prison, with trial scheduled for February 24, 2026. Sandia is currently detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles awaiting trial.
Mubashir, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen of Somali descent, was detained by immigration agents in Minneapolis after repeatedly offering to provide identification. Video footage shows a federal agent placing the handcuffed man in a headlock, bringing him to his knees in the snow, and forcefully placing him in a vehicle. Mubashir stated he felt targeted and that he was chased on foot in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood before the incident.
A 48-year-old Guatemalan man detained at Camp East Montana in El Paso died after months of medical treatment while in ICE custody. ICE stated the cause of death is pending but medical staff attributed it to natural liver and kidney failure. His death occurred the same week civil rights groups alleged severe abuses at the facility, including beatings, sexual assault, medical neglect, and threats of illegal removal to Mexico.
A federal judge ruled that ICE violated a court order by deporting a Guatemalan man from El Paso earlier in December. The man had legal protections against deportation to Guatemala due to a judge's finding that he would likely face torture if returned. Despite these protections, ICE deported him on a pre-dawn flight. The judge has ordered the government to return the man to the United States by December 12.
Eva Gurtovaia became a U.S. citizen at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago, celebrated by neighbors and a local alderman. However, her husband Enes Abak, who fled Turkey seeking political asylum, was detained by immigration agents at their home the previous day. Abak had been paroled into the country in 2022 with a pending asylum application and the couple reported never missing court dates.
Amy Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old college student who entered the U.S. from Honduras at age 8, was detained at Boston airport while attempting to board a flight to Texas for Thanksgiving break. She was informed of a removal order and arrested. Hours after her detainment, a federal judge ordered the government not to remove her from the U.S., but she was deported despite this order, according to her attorney.
A Northwest Arkansas man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a traffic stop. According to his attorney, the man is a U.S. citizen. He has since been released and returned home.
The Trump administration acknowledged that officials improperly deported transgender woman Britania Uriostegui Rios to Mexico in violation of an immigration judge's March order concluding she was likely to face torture in her home country. The administration is working to bring her back to the U.S. from Tijuana while seeking an alternative country for her deportation. Uriostegui Rios is suing to force the administration to release her from custody upon her return.
A 19-year-old freshman at Babson College named Any Lucia Lopez Belloca was detained at Logan Airport and subsequently deported to Honduras while attempting to travel to Texas for Thanksgiving. According to her attorney Todd Pomerleau, she was told there was an issue with her ticket and was immediately detained when she went to customer service. The student, originally from Honduras, was brought to the United States by her parents in 2014 and was pursuing a business degree on scholarship.
According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Online Detainee Locator System, an individual named Yee has been detained as a public safety or flight risk. However, no court hearing dates are available for Yee on the portal, and no deportation information is listed on the U.S. Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review.
A journalist named Decker was arrested while covering a protest action by the Sunrise Movement outside a facility on the southeastern edge of the Florida Everglades. More than 30 people were arrested after blocking the entrance to the facility. Decker was working on assignment for three news outlets: News2Share, Zuma Newswire, and Creative Loafing Tampa Bay.
Judge Shuting Chen received a termination notice via email while conducting an asylum hearing for a Venezuelan family. She had been mentally preparing for her termination by the Trump administration while handling hundreds of additional cases from fired colleagues. Chen broke down in tears and apologized to the asylum-seekers and attorneys before leaving, unable to complete the case.
ICE agents raided a Detroit home and detained two 16-year-old cousins who were asylum seekers with work permits and pending court dates. The teenagers were transported to a detention center in Texas away from their support system. A demonstration in support of the two teens was scheduled for later that day in Clark Park in Southwest Detroit.
Silvia Reyna Mendoza, who has lived in the United States for 40 years and is a mother of 8, reported sexual misconduct by an ICE contractor. Despite a judge's order prohibiting her deportation, ICE deported her the following day. She is currently in ICE detention in Kern County while her family fights for her case, with advocates calling this action retaliatory and unlawful.
The longtime owner of La Playa Taco Shop, a well-known decades-old Mexican restaurant in Pacific Beach, San Diego, has been detained by federal immigration authorities and is facing possible deportation. The detention has prompted a widespread community response and raised concerns about the future of the family-run establishment.
A social media post highlights the case of Jorge, a 2-year-old U.S. citizen whose mother was deported in error to Guatemala, leaving the child behind. The post expresses concern about the trauma being inflicted on children due to immigration enforcement errors.
At least five Austin Independent School District employees have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Education Austin union. The detained workers include instructional and support staff such as a teacher, bus driver, and lunchroom workers. The arrests have caused concern among co-workers and administrators who report being left without information about their colleagues' status.
Melissa Tran, a Maryland mother who came to the U.S. from Vietnam in the 1990s as a refugee with a Green Card, was deported to Vietnam after being detained by ICE in May. Though a judge ordered her release in October, she still faced deportation due to a 2003 removal order stemming from a 2001 conviction for stealing checks as a teenager. Vietnam had previously refused to accept her, allowing her to remain in the U.S. for over 20 years while completing regular immigration check-ins, until her detention during a check-in in Baltimore.
A young woman was detained at her job at a Raleigh-area HVAC work site. Her family is seeking answers about the detention.
Immigrants detained at the Aurora detention facility in Colorado have been requesting deportation for months, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement has kept them detained with no clear timeline for release. The cases highlight how a new ICE policy has made many immigrants ineligible for release while their cases proceed, contradicting the Trump administration's stated mass deportation goals.
Federal immigration agents chased a gardener into Polly's Pies restaurant on Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach and tackled him in the waiting area. Local police officers were eating inside at the time and one briefly drew his gun in surprise before realizing it was an immigration enforcement activity. The officers did not intervene in the arrest.
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