TERROR: Detain (nobody is safe)
2025 March
2025-03-18 News outlets reported family outcries because their loved ones being detained were not gang members or criminals.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/families-migrants-relatives-deported-ice-gang-members/story?id=119892593
2025 June
2025-06-14 By this date, award-winning Spanish journalist Mario Guevara who has lived in the United States for 20 years had been in ICE custody for over 100 days even after an immigration judge granted him bond. ACLU said he was not allowed to say goodbye to his wife and three children. He was arrested in June while livestreaming a No Kings demonstration. He was charged with unlawful assembly, obstruction, and being a pedestrian on a roadway.
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/a-letter-from-detained-journalist-mario-guevara
2025-06-17 Brad Landers was detained by federal agents while he tried to peacefully escort a man out of immigration court in Manhattan.
2025 July
2025-07-16 A class action suit was filed against the Trump administration for thousands of unlawful arrests and detentions, citing immigrants were lawfully appearing for their scheduled hearings.
2025 August
2025-08-27 Long-time community organizer and valid DACA holder Catalina Xochitl Santiago was detained at a domestic flight while on the way to work in El Paso. Even after a judge ruled that her DACA status was valid she remained in detention.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/daca-recipient-detention-immigration
2025-08-27 Washington firefighters were raided by ICE while actively fighting fires and two were detained. The crew members issued a statement in September expressing their anger.
2025 September
2025-09-05 ICE raided a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia and arrested 475 South Koreans for “exploiting the workforce”. This came just after South Korea invested billions in battery plant production in the US.
2025-09-07 The Korean minister stated he is unsure if they want to invest in the US in the future. Tom Homan stated more raids were to come.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/07/us/south-korean-detainees-negotiations-release-hnk
2025 October
2025-10-03 Alderman Jessie Fuentes was arrested by ICE at Humboldt Park hospital for asking officers if they had a federal warrant. In the video you can see Alderman Fuentes was calm and cooperative.
2025 November
2025-11-06 ICE arrested a Chicago day care worker in front of children. The woman being detained tried to tell officers she had a valid permit to work, but she was still arrested while ICE proceeded to storm the facility.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/chicago-day-care-ice-arrest-hnk
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/teacher-detained-ice-rayito-del-sol-chicago-daycare-broadview/
2025-11-26 The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was taken into ICE custody and was detained for a month. She was interviewed by CNN’s Erin Burnett December 2025.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/ice-karoline-leavitt-family-detained
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/karoline-leavitt-nephew-ice-arrest-bruna-ferreira/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onwJ0ZmT7qM&list=WL&index=4
2025-11-28 A 19-year-old Austin Texas college student was returning home from college to surprise her family when she was detained by ICE and deported to Honduras despite a judge’s order to return her to the United States.
https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/ice-deports-austin-student-honduras-21212682.php
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/us/babson-college-student-deported-thanksgiving-hnk
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/metro/babson-college-freshman-deportation-honduras-interview/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/college-student-deported-boston-flight-thanksgiving
2026 January
2026-01-15 ICE profiled and detained members of the Oglala Sioux tribe.
https://www.kotatv.com/2026/01/14/oglala-sioux-tribe-gives-update-tribal-members-detained-by-ice/
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5688969-oglala-sioux-tribe-demands-action/
2026-01-22 ICE arrested civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong during a protest in St. Paul Minnesota. The White House then doctored and digitally altered a photo of her arrest to make it appear she was crying.
2026-01-22 Two Brooklyn Park Minnesota women were detained by ICE while they were monitoring school bus drop off locations for safety. During their custody, the arresting agent had a seizure. The women stated they were released from handcuffs so they could render emergency medical assistance to the agent. DHS later made a statement, saying that the women “lied to law enforcement stating they were nurses” and that they never rendered assistance.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/03/brooklyn-park-women-help-seizing-ice-agent-while-detained
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2026 February
2026-02-14 According to Reuters, courts have ruled by now 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-illegal-arrests
2026-02-27 ICE lied to gain access to campus housing by saying they were looking for a missing child.
https://www.today.com/video/columbia-says-ice-agents-lied-to-access-dorm-detain-student-258411077587