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71 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 20, 2026.
Austin's mayor said he was 'angry but not surprised.' A council member said the officer rammed the man's car and fired at least five times. ICE's own investigative arm will lead the inquiry, with the FBI assisting, and the Travis County district attorney has asked for the evidence.
BioPykrete revives a World War II idea at the molecular level: a protein with one end that grips ice and another that grips cellulose stops cracks from racing through the material. The team says it could one day be a building material for the Arctic and Antarctic.
The Texas Democrat's H.Res. 1486 accused Trump of letting ICE and Border Patrol 'operate without accountability' and cited four people killed by federal immigration agents this year. Democratic leaders declined to whip the vote and voted present themselves.
The federal complaint, filed in New York with student Mohammad Zubairi and a suspended pro-Palestinian group, accuses Columbia of hiring private investigators to monitor Khalil, retaliating against students who reported harassment, and rewriting its discipline rules to punish criticism of Israel.
WatchThe inspector general's unannounced January inspection found metal enclosures less than half the size ICE requires for a single-occupancy room. DHS says it never ran the place, and DeSantis says he hasn't read the report.
Christian Castro, 52, pleaded not guilty to six federal counts of making false statements to the FBI. Surveillance video contradicted his account of being attacked with a broom and a snow shovel.
Court records filed September 5 name Andre Junior Seenaraine and Stephen Jordan Trejos. The Everglades detention camp they worked at has been closed since July.
Homeland Security says the agency has now topped its own arrest record three consecutive months. An independent data project puts July's number several hundred lower than the government does.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans was pushed out after pursuing a constitutional-rights case against ICE officer Christian Castro. Castro was instead charged this week with making false statements.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin closed out 'Operation Rotten Apple' with a New York City news conference aimed squarely at Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The British commentator, a longtime advocate of aggressive deportation, was picked up near New Orleans. DHS says he entered legally in 2019 and overstayed.
A Homeland Security notice published Monday says the agency wants the devices in officers' hands by March. The solicitation for a no-bid contract could appear as early as Friday.
WatchCall-in letters began arriving in Springfield on July 27, days after a federal court lifted the last hold on ending Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians. Advocates say the GPS bracelets are being issued to people who entered the country legally.
WatchAn Associated Press investigation counted 52 cases in which immigration officers took the immediate family of a service member into custody — at green-card appointments, at check-ins, and once outside a Walmart in front of a 6-year-old.
CoreCivic's revenue jumped 27% and GEO Group's 15% as the number of people in U.S. immigration detention climbed toward 66,000 — with the administration targeting 100,000 beds.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo is the second person to die after being held at the Newark ICE facility and the 22nd to die in ICE custody this year. His family says he was never sent to a hospital in time.
WatchThe July total beat June's record of roughly 43,000, with about 1,500 people entering custody every day. Roughly 68,000 people are currently being held across the detention network.
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano was coughing up blood inside Georgia's Stewart Detention Center in early July. He was diagnosed on July 13, released from custody on July 16 and died on July 22.
Rep. Robert Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal want to know how David Brouillette was hired and trained before the July 13 shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford.
Federal officials never named immigration enforcement as a goal when the Memphis Safe Task Force launched. Ten months in, immigration arrests are up sixfold and most of those taken in had no criminal convictions.
Temporary Protected Status expires Monday after a federal appeals court bought Haitians three extra days. Immigration agents plan to move quickly, and deportation flights can only land in one Haitian city.
Prosecutors say Brandon Booth, unable to reach his shift past demonstrators outside Aurora's ICE Processing Center, drew a personal handgun and fired, wounding 21-year-old Emma Landis.
Prosecutors say Andrew Arrabaca, 43, poured gasoline outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and told investigators he did not care if he killed people.
Written notice reached FBI managers that the bureau will no longer scrutinize whether immigration agents were assaulted before opening fire; the Justice Department and DHS deny any policy change.
WatchThe president dismissed an internal pause on vehicle stops days after ICE officers killed two immigrant men who officials concede were not their targets. DHS will now put a body camera on every arrest team.
WatchFederal authorities acknowledge the man shot dead in the coastal town of Biddeford was not the person immigration agents had come to arrest, in what has become ICE's second fatal shooting in a week.
The Department of Homeland Security paused non-urgent traffic stops following deadly encounters in Texas and Maine, though agents may still stop people with violent criminal histories.
WatchForeign Minister Roberto Velasco says Mexico will ask U.S. prosecutors and the Justice Department to charge those responsible for the deaths of 17 of its citizens, days after an ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
In a 71-page opinion, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts vacated three Trump-era policies as unlawfully adopted, restoring the agency's longstanding 12-hour limit on short-term holding.
The federal lawsuit targets Maryland's new Community Trust Act, arguing that limits on cooperation with ICE are unconstitutional. It is the latest in a string of suits against Democratic-led states.
WatchLorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was driving to a job site when an ICE agent shot him during a traffic stop. Federal investigators have now opened two probes as his family demands answers.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant on his way to a construction job, was shot dead during a Houston traffic stop. The FBI is investigating the second ICE-involved shooting in a week.
The suit says U.S. agencies shared confidential records — including claims of religious conversion and LGBTQ persecution — with Tehran through the Pakistani embassy.
The president's nominee would become the first Senate-confirmed director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since 2017 as the administration accelerates mass deportations.
The legislation ends a four-month lapse in funding for immigration enforcement programs and now heads to President Trump for his signature.
The 52-47 vote funds immigration enforcement through the end of Trump's term but left intact a $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund that critics say could pay the president's political allies.
Mayor Ras Baraka says city will not use taxpayer money to safeguard privately-run immigration facility.
WatchThe 52-47 vote, cast just before 5 a.m. after a marathon 19-hour session, funds ICE and Border Patrol through the end of President Trump's term and preserves his contested 'anti-weaponization' settlement fund.
Mayor Ras Baraka restricted movement near the GEO Group-run facility after weeks of protests, a detainee hunger strike, and arrests of people carrying weapons.
Christian Castro was taken into custody Friday morning after being charged with assault in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the immigration crackdown.
About 300 detainees stopped eating to protest spoiled food and squalid conditions at the GEO Group-run center. Outside, federal agents fired pepper balls at demonstrators and six protesters were arrested.
The agreement — more than five times the size of the company's last DHS deal — gives ICE officers cloud access to BI2's 4.2-million-record biometric database, drawing alarm from the ACLU and Sen. Ron Wyden, who warn the rollout amounts to construction of the largest civilian iris-recognition system in U.S. history.
Minnesota prosecutors say Castro was never under threat, was not struck by any object and falsely reported that a shovel and broom had been used as weapons during the January 14 Operation Metro Surge raid that wounded Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.
The federal officer is the second to face felony charges stemming from Trump administration's Operation Metro Surge immigration crackdown.
The former GEO Group executive will replace acting Director Todd Lyons on June 1, drawing alarm from civil rights groups over his decades of ties to the for-profit detention industry.
After an overnight session, the GOP secured funding increases for ICE operations while defeating Democratic cost-reduction proposals in a party-line vote.
A CBS News investigation finds that experienced jurists are being systematically replaced by judges recruited for their willingness to order removals, leaving tens of thousands of cases in limbo.
Lyons led the agency through its highest-ever single-month deportation total. His departure leaves ICE without Senate-confirmed leadership at a critical juncture in Trump's immigration drive.
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé was arrested amid an inheritance dispute after reconnecting with and marrying a former G.I.
The record-long funding lapse has left tens of thousands of DHS employees in financial limbo, with Republicans now pursuing a reconciliation bill to end the standoff.
Lyons oversaw the Trump administration's aggressive deportation campaign and will leave his post by May 31 in the latest in a series of DHS leadership changes.
The first official deportation data released under the Trump administration shows a historic enforcement surge that nonetheless comes nowhere close to the campaign pledge, with nearly two-thirds of those removed having no criminal record.
Secretary of State Rubio terminated the legal residency of Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, citing a fraudulent asylum claim and social media posts celebrating attacks on Americans, as the Trump administration expands its crackdown on Iranians with perceived regime ties.
Newly obtained footage contradicts federal agents' version of events in nonfatal shooting case, raising questions about law enforcement transparency.
The 22-year-old immigrant came to the U.S. as a toddler and was arrested at the military installation where the couple planned to live together.
Families across Texas grapple with new reality as immigration enforcement separates children from detained parents, forcing siblings to take on caregiver roles.
Salah Sarsour, president of Islamic Society of Milwaukee and legal permanent resident, detained as Trump administration intensifies enforcement operations.
Legal coalition claims Homeland Security adopted unconstitutional policy allowing agents to enter homes without judicial warrants.
President Claudia Sheinbaum threatens legal action over deaths at immigration facilities, escalating diplomatic tensions with the United States.
'They Let Him Rot in There,' says family member as immigrant detainee fatalities increase nationwide.
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