Federal immigration raids in North Carolina and the Appalachian region have drawn unexpected resistance from conservative rural communities, with many of those arrested being ordinary undocumented residents rather than criminals.
New federal data shows that ICE is increasingly detaining people with no criminal history, undermining the agency’s stated focus on public safety and due process.
Jonathan Jean-Baptiste argues that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is a continuation of the long history of surveillance and overpolicing experienced by Black Americans, and that the Black community must become more involved in fighting for immigrant justice to create a safer environment for Black children.
The Trump administration is inflicting unprecedented violence and cruelty on immigrants, with ICE officers making violent courthouse arrests and detaining people with valid legal status for weeks, while legal service providers struggle to protect their clients in an arena with nearly no rules.
The Trump administration is expanding ICE’s surveillance powers to target American citizens who criticize or protest the agency, using social media monitoring technologies, location data, and cell phone hacking contracts, which civil liberties advocates warn is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech.
The Trump administration has frozen all immigration applications from 19 countries, including the suspension of citizenship ceremonies, in an effort to limit legal immigration pathways.
The New York Times found that federal law enforcement priorities under the Trump administration shifted substantially, resulting in a surge of immigration arrests while gun- and drug-related enforcement sharply declined.
A federal judge has issued an order banning ICE from carrying out warrantless arrests in Colorado, ruling that the agency’s practices violate federal law, and the ruling provides immediate protections to people who may otherwise be subject to warrantless detention based on profiling or insufficient investigation.
Family separations are occurring across the US due to ICE enforcement, resulting in hundreds of immigrant children being placed in government shelters and parents being deported or left with the choice of leaving their children in the care of another safe adult.
Over 100 clergy members gathered in Broadview, Illinois to protest the closure of the ICE processing facility, the release of detainees, and the allowance of spiritual care for detainees, but were met with violence from ICE and Illinois State Police during their arrest.
The US Border Patrol has built a nationwide dragnet driver-surveillance system that uses AI and mass surveillance to target innocent drivers, interrogate, search, and seize their property without proof of wrongdoing.
The U.S. Supreme Court has extended the date of review on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship to Dec. 5, 2025, with multiple federal lawsuits having temporarily blocked the order from being enforced.
The invasion of Ukraine has caused significant environmental damage, including the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam, which has led to flooding, pollution, and heavy metal contamination, as well as the release of methane from the Nord Stream gas line, which has contributed to global warming.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal has delayed the release of hundreds of Chicago-area community members arrested without warrants or reasonable cause, in violation of the Castañon Nava federal consent decree, causing further separation of families and allowing unlawful immigration enforcement to continue.
The ACLU has filed a FOIA request to obtain records related to the Department of Homeland Security’s policies and practices regarding the filming of law enforcement activity, following reports of intimidation and violence against those documenting immigration enforcement in public spaces.
Legal scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández challenges the Justice Department’s defense of President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the US has followed broad birthright citizenship since 1868 and that the government’s framing is historically inaccurate and built on misleading global comparisons.
Over 40 veterans, joined by the ACLU, Common Defense, and the Chamberlain Network, are urging Congress to take action against the Trump administration’s misuse of military powers and politicization of the military.
Venezuelan immigrants detained in a federal raid in Chicago have spoken out about their experiences, revealing that they were taken away in the middle of the night with no explanation and have since been deported or detained in jails across the US.
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has raised concerns about ICE’s plan to outsource surveillance and enforcement duties to private contractors, warning that it could erode public trust in government and potentially expand surveillance beyond undocumented immigrants.
Federal agents raided a Chicago apartment building and detained 37 immigrants, most of them Venezuelans, in a highly publicized operation that was presented as a victory against terrorism, but no evidence has been found to support the government’s claims.