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Alabama

2025-09-20: [Alabama man sues federal government over ICE raids] — MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — A south Alabama man is suing the federal government after he says he was detained multiple times by ICE at construction sites in our area.

2025-12-15: [287g agreement] — signed version of the Alabama 287g agreement MOA

2025-12-05: [truckers detained in Alabama ICE raid] — Another state has cooperated with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to apprehend truck drivers who are believed to be operating illegally. This time, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency worked with ICE on targeted enforcement from Oct. 27 through Oct. 30 and from Nov. 16 through Nov. 18 along “high-crash rural interstate corridors.”

Alaska

2025-08-07: [Days: New data shows ICE doubles 2025 Alaska arrest rate through June, compared to 2024] — As of June 26, 2025, data shows 33 people have been arrested by ICE in Alaska, with 23 deported or scheduled to be. In 2024, ICE arrests totaled 24 people, with 10 of them deported or scheduled to be.

Arizona

2025-10-09: [cities resist efforts to curtail ICE partnerships with local police] — Immigrant rights groups target 287(g) agreements amid Trump deportation crackdown in state

2025-12-03: [Patrol agents arrest 3 in Arizona migrant-aid camp raid] — Border agents raided a migrant-aid camp near Arivaca last week, entering private structures without a warrant and arresting three people who were receiving aid there, volunteers with the group No More Deaths said.

Arkansas

2025-09-10: [Arkansas sees spike in ICE arrests under President Trump's second term] — In 2025, about 44 percent of the people ICE arrested in Arkansas were from Mexico. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua made up the rest of the top five.

California

2025-11-26: [an American nightmare’: LA hearing details lasting trauma of ICE raids] — The Trump administration’s ICE raids across southern California have had disastrous effects on the region’s immigrants and swept up US citizens in the process, community leaders and residents said at a congressional hearing in Los Angeles on Monday.

2025-12-03: [launches portal for public to report alleged ICE wrongdoing] — California has launched an online portal to allow the public to send videos, photos and other evidence of possible crimes committed by federal immigration agents, joining other states that have launched similar efforts in response to President Donald Trump's nationwide crackdown on undocumented migrants.

2025-12-06: [Santa Barbara holiday parade canceled over fears of ongoing ICE raids] — The Milpas Street Holiday Parade, a decades-old tradition of Santa Barbara’s largely Latino Eastside, has been canceled this year over fears of ICE raids, organizers announced.

Colorado

2025-11-06: [raids in Colorado highlight how violent the U.S. has become] — After migrating to Canada, a journalist reckons with the grief and gratitude of having left.

2025-11-25: [demands end to unjustified warrantless arrests, restricting a tool ICE frequently uses to detain immigrants] — A federal judge has ordered immigration agents to stop making warrantless arrests in Colorado based on suspected violations and to begin following federal law prohibiting detentions without first determining whether a person is a risk to run and avoid deportation hearings.

Connecticut

2025-07-03: [arrests are up in Connecticut. Here's where migrants were apprehended] — Arrests of migrants have increased in Connecticut and elsewhere around the country as president Donald Trump’s administration delivers on a campaign promise to ramp up deportation efforts nationwide.

2025-08-23: [Condemns ICE Raid at Newington Car Wash] — East Hartford, CT - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement after ICE detained seven workers at a car wash in Newington without notifying local officials.

2025-08-25: [arrests, deportations in CT up sharply in Trump’s second term] — ICE made 405 arrests in Connecticut from January 2025-July 2025, more than doubling the 173 arrests made during the same months of 2024, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project through an FOIA request and analyzed by The Connecticut Mirror.

Delaware

2025-07-14: [becomes 7th state to outlaw ICE partnerships] — elaware Gov. Matt Meyer signed House Bill 182 on Monday, outlawing local police departments from signing partnerships with ICE. As federal deportation efforts have increased in recent months, state and federal officials have increasingly been at odds over whether local law enforcement should assist those efforts. So-called 287(g) agreements could increase deportations in Delaware, but state officials sought to shield non-violent, undocumented immigrants.

District of Columbia

2025-10-29: [residents say police department is still cooperating with ICE, violating human rights] — Dozens of District residents spoke out at a public hearing before the D.C. Council on Wednesday about what they described as a continued collaboration between the city’s police department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

2025-11-21: [Washington D.C., contractors face labor shortages due to ICE raid threats] — After months of ICE raids on the nation’s capital, some construction workers are afraid to go into Washington D.C.

2025-12-03: [City-by-City Breakdown of Trump’s Immigration Raids and Troop Deployments] — The Trump administration has deployed federal troops into at least 10 cities, and there are no signs of a slowdown. The administration is also appealing a ruling that its 30-day control of Washington, D.C., was unlawful.

Florida

2025-11-12: [residents concerned as ICE detains over 35 farmworkers on bus] — ICE agents reportedly set up across Immokalee, pulling over buses and detaining more than 35 farmworkers, which left families and students panicked as parents suddenly disappeared. The school district rushed in extra counselors while the community described the day as heartbreaking and frightening, especially for the children left without their mothers.

Georgia

2025-09-06: [immigration raid at Hyundai megaplant in Georgia leads to 475 arrests. Most are Korean] — Hundreds of federal officers descended on a small southeast Georgia community and raided the Hyundai Metaplant – arresting 475 people in the largest sweep yet in the current Trump administration’s immigration crackdown at US worksites.

2025-09-07: [Korea charters plane to fly home over 300 workers detained by ICE at Georgia Hyundai plant] — On Sunday, Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said that South Korea and the U.S. had finalized negotiations on the workers' release, with South Korea planning to send a charter plane to bring more than 300 workers home, as soon as remaining administrative steps are completed.

2025-12-07: [Georgia veteran deserves to stay in US after serving country, fiancee says] — Jamaican-born US army veteran faces deportation as more non-US citizen military members are swept up by ICE raids

Hawaii

2025-11-10: [arrests surge in Hawaii as federal agents target courthouses] — Public arrests and large raids documented on social media are just the tip of the iceberg, according to statistics from the Deportation Data Project. There were 153 arrests in the first half of the year, compared to only 41 in the same period last year, and already far ahead of last year’s total of 89.

2025-11-06: [raids in Hawaii] — The latest ICE raids on Kauaʻi on Wednesday led to 44 arrests at homes and businesses. But it's happening across the islands.

Idaho

2025-10-21: [arrests 105 people in southwest Idaho raid, U.S. Department of Homeland Security says] — In a raid Sunday in southwest Idaho, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 105 people. The Federal Bureau of Investigation previously announced five arrests of people linked to the alleged illegal horserace gambling operation in Wilder called La Catedral Arena. A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday confirmed ICE’s arrest count.

2025-10-26: [children struggle after Wilder raid leaves their father detained by ICE] — A Nampa family is still reeling after ICE detained their father at an FBI raid. His children recount the fear of that day and their hope of having him home.

Illinois

2025-12-16: [Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Back in Chicago as Federal Immigration Operations Ramp Back Up] — Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino and masked federal agents have resumed immigration operations in and around Chicago, weeks after he and hundreds of agents left the area at the start of the winter season. Illinois officials have confirmed that a large group of federal agents returned to Chicago and have resumed “terrorizing our community,” Illinois Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García said Tuesday.

2025-12-18: [Data Reveals What Happened to 1,600 People Arrested During Chicago’s Blitz] — As federal agents descend on Chicago this week for a renewed round of immigration raids, a Marshall Project analysis shows what happened to around 1,600 people arrested in a similar operation this fall. Our reporting reveals how federal agencies moved them through the Trump administration’s expanded network of detention facilities — many rife with complaints of inhumane conditions.

Indiana

2025-07-28: [immigration arrests surge despite stalled ICE partnerships] — Nearly 1,400 people in Indiana have been subject to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement administrative arrest since Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, as of June 26. That’s almost an 80% increase over the same period last year, according to ICE records obtained by the Deportation Data Project and published July 15.

Iowa

2025-10-23: [Moines Public Schools student detained, deported by ICE following immigration check-in] — An 18-year-old Des Moines Public Schools student was detained and deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to an immigrant rights group. The student, whose name was not released, had attended a routine immigration check-in at the Federal Building in Des Moines on Sept. 30, according to advocates with the Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice, and was detained by ICE officials at the building briefly before being taken to the Hardin County Jail in Eldora.

Kansas

2025-11-24: [shows ICE arrests in Kansas soar under Trump administration] — CE arrests in Kansas have sharply increased since President Trump began his immigration crackdown, and a larger share of those arrested have no criminal convictions, data shows. 

Kentucky

2025-10-06: [Arrests Are Surging in Kentucky as Local Law Enforcement Joins Troubling Mass Deportation Effort] — Anti-immigration enforcement has ramped up since the inauguration in January, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arresting more than 1,000 people per day on average nationally and locking up nearly 60,000 immigrants in detention facilities. In Kentucky alone, ICE has arrested nearly 1,300 people between January 20 and the end of July, a 37.6% increase compared to the same period in 2024.

Louisiana

2025-12-11: [people are terrified to come out’: Catahoula Crunch closes out its first week] — NEW ORLEANS — As the first week of an intensified immigration enforcement crackdown in southeast Louisiana came to an end, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials remain tight-lipped about how many apprehensions federal agents have made to achieve their goal of 5,000 arrests, based on plans reviewed by the Associated Press in November, during the operation.

Maine

2025-09-09: [ICE arrests in Maine double, governor delays deciding on limits for local police cooperation] — The governor postponed her decision on a bill restricting local authorities from carrying out federal immigration enforcement until next year. Meanwhile, daily U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest rates have doubled in Maine since President Donald Trump took office, new data show.

Maryland

• Legislation:Maryland 287g Ban Bill 2025 – Del. Nicole Williams plans to reintroduce a bill to prohibit 287(g) agreements in Maryland, with new backing from the state Senate president, signaling growing political resistance to local ICE partnerships.

2025-10-07: [ICE ARRESTS HAVE LEFT BALTIMORE’S IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN A CONSTANT STATE OF FEAR AND ANXIETY] — THE “ARREST FIRST AND ASK QUESTIONS LATER” REALITY FORCES FAMILIES TO SPEND IMMENSE ENERGY ON SAFETY PLANNING, RIGHTS REHEARSALS, AND PREPARING FOR POTENTIAL DETENTIONS, FRAYING THE VERY FOUNDATION OF COMMUNITY WELL-BEING.

Massachusetts

2025-09-16: [crackdowns intensify across Boston as sanctuary cities face Trump's latest operation] — mmigrants are being detained while going to work, outside courthouses, and at store parking lots in Metro Boston as President Donald Trump targets so-called sanctuary cities in his effort to ramp up immigration enforcement.

Michigan

2025-11-19: [Detroit community dealing with increase in ICE raids, arrest] — Communities across Metro Detroit are reporting surges in Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and arrests, particularly in areas with bustling businesses and growing families.

Minnesota

2025-12-16: [Mall, once a bustling center of community, falls silent] — A Monday ICE raid confirmed immigrants’ fears, as the Trump administration chokes off immigrant economies

Mississippi

2025-11-21: [Agents Target Mississippi, Louisiana in ‘Swamp Sweep,’ Aiming to Arrest Thousands of Immigrants] — NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into southeast Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation.

Missouri

2025-12-13: [look inside ICE: How the agency operates in Trump's America] — KANSAS CITY, Missouri ‒ Inside an ICE headquarters in a suburban office park hangs a printed text-message that immigration officers feel is aimed at them: "Get a gun and shoot them in the streets."

Montana

2025-07-02: [provide clarification on the Helena ICE arrest] — HELENA — Yesterday, 31-year-old Christopher Martinez was arrested and detained by agents from Homeland Security Investigations and Border Patrol in Helena. Homeland Security Investigations is a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Nebraska

2025-08-01: [Taken in Omaha ICE Raid Challenges Ongoing Detention via ACLU Lawsuit] — LINCOLN, Neb. — An Omaha woman is turning to the court system in hope of being able to leave the custody of immigration authorities and reunite with her family. Yesterday evening, the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against federal and local officials on behalf of Maria Reynosa Jacinto, a single mother who has been working in the United States for 20 years to support herself and her daughter, a U.S. citizen.

New Jersey

2025-10-09: [has arrested over 3,000 people in NJ since Trump took office] — WASHINGTON — Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have arrested more than 3,000 people in New Jersey since President Donald Trump took office, the ninth-highest total of any state in the country.

New York

2025-11-04: [power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE] — With ICE targeting vendors and fear rising, community groups are organising fast to keep New Yorkers working on the streets safe

North Carolina

2025-01-10 – Agreement:Wake_County_North_Carolina — Wake County 287(g) agreement renewed.

2025-11-19 - https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/us/north-carolina-charlotte-ice-raids-what-we-know

North Dakota

2025-06-06: [detainees held in ND jail as space runs out] — BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — Seventeen people detained by federal immigration agents are currently being held in the Burleigh/Morton Detention Center.

Ohio

2025-11-13: [sheriff says local partnerships with feds on immigration ‘starting to ramp up’] — As the Trump administration ramps up deportation efforts nationwide, ICE has increasingly turned to local law enforcement through a program known as 287(g), which has existed for nearly 30 years. In Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard Jones reinstated his county's partnership with the federal government when President Trump returned to office. The county has since housed nearly 2,000 ICE detainees in its jails.

2025-12-18: [says ICE operations in Columbus won't turn city into 'vehicle of fear'] — Columbus city leaders and Columbus Division of Police leadership emphasized on Dec. 18 that police are not working with federal immigration authorities as operations appear to be increasing in the city.

Pennsylvania

• Agreement:Bucks County Pennsylvania 287g – A Bucks County sheriff who joined ICE’s 287(g) program, giving local deputies federal immigration enforcement powers, faced major backlash from rights groups and his Democratic challenger. The issue became the centerpiece of the race, and voters ultimately removed him from office, with the sheriff-elect vowing to halt and withdraw from the ICE agreement immediately.

South Dakota

2025-05-13: [makes 8 arrests in South Dakota city where Noem was subjected to a protest three days earlier] — U.S. immigration officials conducted a “worksite enforcement action” that resulted in eight arrests Tuesday in Madison, three days after their boss, Kristi Noem, was subjected to a protest in the same South Dakota city.

Texas

2025-01-15 – Incident:2025-01-14-Hidalgo-TX — Border pursuit ends in crash in Hidalgo, Texas.

Washington

2025-08-31: [question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid] — Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an immigration check.