Human Impact Project

ICE raided a South Burlington, Vermont home on March 11, 2026, searching for Deyvi Daniel Corona-Sanchez after a car chase, but instead arrested three residents: Ecuadorian sisters Jisella Johana Patin Patin and Daysi Camila Patin Patin, and Honduran national Christian Humberto Jerez Andrade. The operation sparked a daylong standoff as hundreds of protesters surrounded the building and federal agents used flash bangs and tear gas to clear the crowd, prompting friction between ICE and local police. Judges later ordered the release of all three, finding their detentions unlawful, and their attorneys say ICE violated their civil rights. In a revised court filing, ICE now says it no longer believes Corona-Sanchez was driving the car during the chase, after Jerez Andrade told the FBI he was the driver and that his 18-year-old nephew was a passenger.

A Venezuelan citizen entered the U.S. on June 21, 2022, was initially detained by immigration authorities, then released on his own recognizance on June 24, 2022. He was re-detained by ICE on March 22, 2026, without notice of the reason for his re-detention or opportunity to contest it. The court granted his habeas corpus petition and ordered his immediate release, finding that his re-detention without notice and hearing violated due process.

Usiel Sanchez Romero, an Omaha contracting business owner who came to the United States without authorization in 2013, was detained by ICE during a traffic stop on March 21, 2026. Romero, who has no criminal record and is married with an 8-year-old son, has operated his contracting business for seven years. Following his detention, he was taken to Pottawattamie County Jail and held without a bond hearing. Romero is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Pottawattamie County, seeking either his release from custody or a bond hearing in immigration court.

A citizen of India who entered the U.S. in 2019 and was released on bond with supervision was arrested by ICE officers on March 20, 2026, while waiting in line to enter the Fresno Superior Courthouse. He had been charged with removability and placed in expedited removal in 2019, and was recently arrested for driving on a suspended license and carrying a concealed firearm. The court granted a preliminary injunction ordering the government to provide him with a bond hearing within 14 days or immediately release him from detention.

Andrei Bankevich, a Belarusian asylum seeker who had been granted relief from deportation to Belarus under the Convention Against Torture, was arrested on a drunken driving charge in Minnesota in February 2025 and transferred into ICE custody. After ICE detention facilities filled during Operation Metro Surge, he was moved to the Muscatine County Jail in Iowa in December 2025, where he was held for more than a year despite officials lacking legal authority to continue detaining him. ICE claimed it had been pursuing potential third-country removal options since September 2025 but provided no documentation to support this. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger ruled that ICE had detained Bankevich beyond the six-month legal limit, violating federal law and his due process rights, calling the detention "prolonged and seemingly interminable" and "untenable," and ordered his immediate release.

Pastor Steven Tendo, a Pentecostal minister and asylum seeker from Uganda who worked as a licensed nursing assistant at the University of Vermont Medical Center and a long-term care facility, was detained by ICE agents on February 4, 2026 as he left work at a Shelburne, Vermont assisted living facility. He said officers surrounded his car at gunpoint, pulled him out, slammed him on icy ground, and cuffed him as patients watched. Tendo was held for 16 days at the Strafford County Jail in Dover, New Hampshire, where he said he was initially denied diabetes, cholesterol, and allergy medications and described conditions including 40 men sharing one bathroom; a federal judge ordered his release on February 20 after ruling ICE had violated its own regulations by failing to provide an individualized basis for re-detaining him. Tendo fled Uganda in 2018 after he said government-aligned forces tortured him, cut off two of his fingers, and killed his brother and uncle over his political and voter-education work; his asylum claim was later denied, and he previously spent about three years in ICE detention in Texas, where he said he was denied insulin and later sued DHS, whose own investigators acknowledged wrongdoing. Colleagues and the Vermont AFL-CIO said he had complied with all required ICE check-ins, and Vermont's congressional delegation, including Sens. Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch and Rep. Becca Balint, called for him to be returned and afforded due process. Supporters raised more than $35,000 through a GoFundMe campaign for his legal bills and lost wages, and on March 20 about 200 supporters rallied outside the ICE office in St. Albans as he reported for a scheduled check-in, which passed without incident though he was ordered to check in again a month later.

A Vietnamese national who entered the U.S. as a refugee in 1988 was re-detained by ICE on March 20, 2026, during a routine check-in. He had a valid removal order issued against him in 1997, but removal efforts failed at that time and he was released on an Order of Supervision. The court denied his habeas petition on July 16, 2026, finding that changed circumstances—including improved U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic relations and deportation protocols—created a significant likelihood of his removal in the reasonably foreseeable future.

A man with a clean police record, an employment letter, and a rental lease filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on March 20, 2026, challenging his detention. The petition includes motions for temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and immediate release, with supporting documentation including passport, employment letter, rental lease, and clean police record.

Igor Babkin, a Russian art teacher who fled political persecution, entered the U.S. legally under humanitarian parole in 2024 and was released under supervision. On February 3, 2026, ICE detained him during a routine annual check-in appointment despite his legal status and prior release. Held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall for approximately six weeks, Babkin's attorney challenged the detention as violating due process rights. On March 17, 2026, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ordered Babkin's release, finding that ICE had violated his due process rights by reversing its earlier discretionary decision to release him without providing individualized assessment or evidence of changed circumstances. Babkin was released on March 20, 2026.

Three people were detained during an ICE raid on a South Burlington home on March 11, 2026. The detainees were Daysi Camila Patin Patin, 20, from Ecuador; her sister Jisella Johana Patin Patin; and Cristian Humberto Jerez Andrade. None of the three were named in the warrant that authorized the raid. Following federal court hearings, all three were ordered released by a judge, with Daysi Camila Patin Patin's release ordered on March 20, 2026.

A 21-year-old Indian citizen entered the U.S. without inspection in June 2024 and was released on his own recognizance with removal proceedings pending. He complied with all release conditions and filed for asylum. Immigration authorities re-detained him on March 19, 2026, without notice or opportunity for a hearing. The court granted his habeas petition and ordered his immediate release, finding the government violated his due process rights.

Two individuals were detained by ICE and subsequently released on bond following legal proceedings. Estefany María Rodríguez Flores, a Colombian journalist for Nashville Noticias, was detained during a traffic stop on March 4, 2026, and released on March 19 after an immigration judge granted bond. Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman, was detained in March 2025 after meeting with immigration authorities and held for over a year at Prairieland Detention Facility in Texas before being released on March 16, 2026, following a judge's bond order that the Department of Homeland Security declined to appeal. Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman and visible campus advocate, was detained in March 2025 for staying in the U.S. on an expired F-1 student visa. While in detention, she experienced her first-ever seizure and was handcuffed to a hospital bed for 72 hours. An immigration judge ordered her release on bond twice before the government kept her detained through automatic stays. A Texas judge ordered her release a third time on March 16, 2026, setting bond at $100,000.

An Afghan asylum seeker was assured by ICE that two missed check-ins would not be held against him—one due to a double-booked appointment and another due to hospitalization for a heart arrhythmia. Two months after the hospitalization, ICE detained him at work, claiming he was a flight risk for missed check-ins and failing to report a move to Portland. ICE provided no documentary evidence of the violations. U.S. District Judge Kymberly K. Evanson ruled in his favor and released him after 41 days of detention at the Northwest Detention Center.

An Iranian native who entered the U.S. as a child in 1993 and was granted withholding of removal in 1999 was detained by ICE at Los Angeles International Airport on March 18, 2026 while attempting to fly to Chicago for his father-in-law's funeral. He had been on supervised release for over 12 years and is married to a U.S. citizen with two U.S. citizen children. The court granted his temporary restraining order and ordered his immediate release, finding that ICE failed to follow proper procedures for revoking his supervised release.

Wilfredo Castillo, a Venezuelan who fled political persecution and violence, was arrested at an immigration check-in appointment in Tukwila in March 2025 after being told by ICE he would be detained. ICE claimed he missed nine SmartLink app check-ins, but Castillo says the app malfunctioned and he never missed in-person appointments. He spent 11 months at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, where he was stabbed multiple times by another detainee. A federal judge released him after finding the government lacked justification for his prolonged detention.

A Vietnamese immigrant who arrived in the U.S. as a refugee in 1992 was detained by ICE on January 12, 2026, during what he believed was a routine check-in appointment at an Anchorage facility. He is a husband and father in the Anchorage area. ICE held him for 65 days in the Anchorage Correctional Complex, citing a denied green card application based on a prior conviction from the 1990s. His attorney and immigration lawyers disputed the detention, arguing he was eligible for permanent residency under the Indochinese Parole Adjustment Act and that the conviction on his DHS record was inaccurate. A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order, and ICE canceled his final administrative removal order on March 18, 2026, resulting in his release. He was released on conditions including an ankle monitor and weekly ICE reporting requirements.

Juan Antonio Maldinera Guzman was detained on March 17, 2026, after having been previously released on bond or conditional parole. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California found that the government violated his Fifth Amendment due process rights by re-detaining him without first providing a pre-deprivation bond hearing before a neutral arbiter. The court determined that the Due Process Clause requires such a hearing to consider a noncitizen's eligibility for bond before re-detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) or § 1182(d)(5). Following prior precedent established in Selis Tinoco v. Noem, Labrador-Prato v. Noem, D.L.C. v. Wofford, and Altin v. Chestnut, the court granted Maldinera Guzman's petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for temporary restraining order. He was ordered released immediately from the California City Detention Facility with the same conditions he was subject to prior to his March 17, 2026 detention. If the government seeks to re-detain him, it must provide seven days' notice and hold a constitutionally compliant pre-deprivation bond hearing.

Carlos De La Garza, a 55-year-old Berkeley resident and green card holder, was detained by ICE in December at the conclusion of a routine appointment tied to his green card application. The arresting officer, Nolan De Long, had been on the job for less than a month and had completed an abbreviated training program that provided only a third of the hours previously required to teach new agents how to fill out a key immigration form. De La Garza was held for days based on paperwork errors De Long made, which the government later used as justification for his detention. After De La Garza challenged his detention in federal court, government attorneys dropped their opposition to his release once they discovered the case relied on the officer's misrepresentations. De Long apologized for the errors.

The petitioner entered the United States on or about February 3, 2024, was briefly detained by immigration authorities, and was then released on his own recognizance and enrolled in ICE's Alternatives to Detention program. On or about April 4, 2025, he was arrested for grand theft under California Penal Code § 487, but there is no evidence he was ever formally charged. He failed to report for a mandatory ICE check-in on August 26, 2025, but voluntarily presented himself at an ICE office on February 26, 2026, and was again placed in the Alternatives to Detention program on his own recognizance. On March 16, 2026, he was re-detained by ICE during a subsequent mandatory check-in, purportedly for violating release conditions, and has been held at the California City Immigration Processing Center since then. He filed a federal habeas petition and a motion for a temporary restraining order challenging his re-detention as a due process violation, arguing the government identified no new criminal conduct or violation justifying re-detention. The court found the Laken Riley Act's mandatory detention provision inapplicable because he was never formally charged after his arrest, ruled his re-detention violated due process, and ordered his immediate release under his prior conditions while barring re-detention without a pre-detention hearing absent exigent circumstances.

A DACA recipient who has lived in the U.S. for an extended period was detained by immigration authorities immediately upon his release from local criminal custody at the Santa Barbara County jail on March 15, 2026. He was held for over a month without a bond hearing despite being eligible for one under immigration law. The federal court ordered his immediate release and prohibited re-detention without a pre-deprivation bond hearing.