Archiv: US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)


20.11.2025 - 00:14 [ ProPublica.org ]

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

Reporting Highlights

– Americans Detained: The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests.

– Held Incommunicado: More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them.

– Cases Wilted: Agents have arrested about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, for allegedly interfering with or assaulting officers, yet those cases were often dropped.

20.11.2025 - 00:10 [ @ChicagoTribune / Youtube ]

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability

(Nov 3, 2025)

Warning: Graphic language. Video shows the vehicle collision between federal agents and Dayanne Figueroa in Chicago‘s West Town neighborhood on Oct. 10, 2025. (Provided by Fernando Figueroa)

20.11.2025 - 00:05 [ Los Angeles Times ]

ICE is grabbing U.S. citizens, defying its own rules and the Constitution

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to work in Chicago last month when she drove onto a street where an immigration enforcement action was in progress. As she attempted to drive around the chaos, an unmarked vehicle collided with her car. Masked men jumped out of the vehicle, guns drawn and dragged Figueroa from her car by her legs. She was thrown into a minivan, taken away and held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for hours. Dayanne Figueroa is an American citizen.

Figueroa’s arrest, captured in a now-viral video, illustrates the growing number of U.S. citizens caught up in federal immigration actions. These arrests and detentions violate ICE guidelines as well as the Constitution.

23.10.2025 - 21:50 [ ABC7NY.com ]

Federal agents carry out joint ICE crackdown on Canal Street in Chinatown

A spokesperson for Homeland Security said, „ICE and its federal partners, including FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS-CI and CBP conducted a targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operation on Canal Street in New York City, focused on criminal activity relating to selling counterfeit good.“

The NYPD said they had no involvement in the operation, and a statement from Mayor Eric Adams offered a similar response, saying in part, „New York City does not cooperate with federal law enforcement on civil deportations, in accordance with our local laws.“

23.10.2025 - 21:18 [ amNewYork / X ]

ICE agents raided Chinatown’s Canal Street on Tuesday afternoon, detaining several street vendors in an operation that drew immediate and fierce backlash from bystanders and immigrant advocates.

(October 21, 2025)

23.10.2025 - 21:14 [ amNY,com ]

ICE conducts raid on Chinatown’s Canal Street, multiple people detained as New Yorkers rage

(October 21, 2025)

As ICE agents went to their vehicles, New Yorkers ran into the streets. The agents then began pushing people and tackling some to the ground. That led to more enraged bystanders joining the mob and lashing out at the ICE agents.

The feds then pulled out batons and riot shields in an effort to get the crowd under control, striking some in the process.

The crowd followed ICE agents retreated back to 26 Federal Plaza, the site of many immigrant detentions in recent months, shouting “ICE out of New York.” The crowd was then met by more federal agents — some of whom were equipped with machine guns and looking ready for combat.

05.09.2025 - 17:33 [ Reuters ]

Work paused at Hyundai‘s US site after hundreds of workers detained in raid

SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Hundreds of workers at a Hyundai Motor (005380.KS), opens new tab facility being built in Georgia have been detained in a major raid by U.S. authorities, forcing a pause in the construction of a car battery factory that is part of a major investment in the state by the Korean automaker.

05.09.2025 - 17:32 [ SavannahNow.com ]

Savannah area Hyundai plant site raided by ICE and Homeland Security agents

SMN has reached out to officials at Hyundai Motor Group USA, HMGMA, and LG Solutions (which oversees construction at the HL-GA Battery Company joint venture between Hyundai and LG) for comment on the raid. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp‘s office has not responded to questions and a request for comment as of this publication.

24.07.2025 - 18:43 [ Office of the Director of National Intelligence ]

New Evidence of Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert President Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ODNI News Release No. 15-25
July 18, 2025

New Evidence of Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert President Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard revealed overwhelming evidence that demonstrates how, after President Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.

– In the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the Intelligence Community (IC) consistently assessed that Russia is “probably not trying … to influence the election by using cyber means.”

– On December 7, 2016, after the election, talking points were prepared for DNI James Clapper stating, “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome.”

-On December 9, 2016, President Obama’s White House gathered top National Security Council Principals for a meeting that included James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe and others, to discuss Russia.

– After the meeting, DNI Clapper’s Executive Assistant sent an email to IC leaders tasking them with creating a new IC assessment “per the President’s request” that details the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.” It went on to say, “ODNI will lead this effort with participation from CIA, FBI, NSA, and DHS.”

– Obama officials leaked false statements to media outlets, including The Washington Post, claiming, “Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election.”

– On January 6, 2017, a new Intelligence Community Assessment was released that directly contradicted the IC assessments that were made throughout the previous six months.

06.07.2025 - 03:35 [ Common Dreams ]

Designed To Enact Suffering

The Senate‘s barely-there approval – fuck Shady Vance – of Trump‘s heinous 900-page bill represents the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in U.S. history along with the largest cut to Medicaid and food assistance, all in the obscene name of (partly) funding a $975 billion tax break for the already richest 1%. The bill, „a tipping point between normality and fascism,“ also pours over $170.7 billion into „a campaign of extermination against immigrants that evokes the greatest human rights atrocities of the past,“ funding the hiring of vastly more Nazi thugs to terrorize, humiliate and put in cages millions of brown people who do much of this country‘s work.

It will kick about 16 million people off health insurance by cutting over $1 trillion from Medicaid, because who needs health insurance. It will throw millions of poor families, veterans, the elderly and disabled off SNAP by cutting $285 billion in food assistance, because who needs food. It will cut funding to rural hospitals, nursing homes, student loans, wind and solar energy – electric bills will soar 30% – costing millions of jobs and adding almost $4 trillion to the national debt, to be paid by our children and grandchildren, one of many excellent reasons it‘s said to be the most unpopular legislation since passage of the economically disastrous Embargo Act of 1807.

18.06.2025 - 20:14 [ Politico.com ]

Alex Padilla: ‘Not shocked in the least bit’ about Brad Lander’s arrest

Padilla, in a phone interview after his speech, said he was “sadly, not shocked in the least bit” to hear of Lander’s detention. He spoke to POLITICO about Lander, the backstory of his appearance at Noem’s news conference, the words that pushed him to interrupt her remarks and more.

18.06.2025 - 20:04 [ Democracy Now ]

“What Authoritarians Do”: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Speaks Out After ICE Arrests Him in Courthouse

Lander was later released after New York Governor Kathy Hochul condemned the arrest and visited New York City to lobby for his release. Five other mayoral candidates also condemned Lander’s arrest, although current Mayor Eric Adams has stayed silent. Adams “has sold this city out to Donald Trump to try to get his own pardon,” says Lander. “Let’s be clear: It’s only himself he cares about, and he is putting New York’s immigrants in harm’s way.”

18.06.2025 - 19:58 [ theCity.nyc ]

Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents and Accused of Assault — But Released With No Charges

(June 17, 2025)

Lander, who is also running for mayor in next week’s Democratic primary, was held inside the building for over four hours before he was eventually released without charges after an intervention by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

“I know I will get due process and that my rights will be protected,” Lander said to a throng of supporters who gathered spontaneously in Foley Square that evening after his release.

“But Edgardo will sleep in an ICE detention facility God knows where tonight…he has been stripped of his due process rights in a country that is supposed to be founded on equal justice under law,” Lander continued, naming the immigrant detained by federal agents at the same time the comptroller was taken into custody.

18.06.2025 - 19:52 [ New York Times ]

Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse

(June 17, 2025)

Videos taken by reporters at the courthouse show Mr. Lander standing by a migrant man in a hallway on the 12th floor when several men in plainclothes who appear to be law enforcement officers, some wearing masks, push past a crowd in the hallway to arrest the migrant.

Mr. Lander repeatedly asks the agents whether they have a judicial warrant, refusing to let go of the migrant as the agents seek to shepherd the man toward the elevators, according to one of the videos, which was posted on social media by a reporter from The City, a digital news outlet.

18.06.2025 - 19:46 [ DemocracyDocket.com ]

ICE Agents Arrest NYC Official and Democratic Mayoral Candidate Outside Immigration Court

(June 17, 2025)

Lander said he was volunteering for an immigrants’ rights organization and that the man he was helping was named Edgardo.

“Edgardo is in ICE detention, and he’s not going to sleep in his bed tonight. As far as I know, he has no lawyer. He has been stripped of his due process rights by a government and a judge that owe him a credible fear hearing before they deport him.”

“So, I will be fine,” Lander added. “But Edgardo is not going to be fine. And the rule of law is not fine. And our constitutional democracy is not fine.”

18.06.2025 - 19:42 [ Gwynne Hogan / Bluesky ]

Here‘s a longer video of Brad Lander‘s detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

(June 17, 2025)

18.06.2025 - 19:38 [ @globalnews / Youtube ]

„Where is the judicial warrant?“ Chaos erupts as ICE detains NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander

(June 17, 2025)

Chaos unfolded as New York City’s comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by masked federal agents while visiting an immigration court in Manhattan on Tuesday. „You do not have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,“ Lander said multiple times as he was taken away.

12.06.2025 - 23:43 [ ScrippsNews.com ]

House hearing erupts over Sen. Padilla’s removal from Noem press conference

Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., was shouted down after asking whether Republicans would agree to investigate the incident involving Padilla.

„I have a point of order,“ Frost said.

„State your point,“ replied Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the committee chair.

„We have to subpoena Secretary Noem,“ Frost said.

„That‘s not a point of order,“ Comer responded.

The hearing quickly devolved into lawmakers shouting over one another, with Comer at one point telling Frost to „shut up.“

12.06.2025 - 23:12 [ Politico.com ]

Alex Padilla confrontation in LA shocks senators

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said it “sickened my stomach — the manhandling of a United States Senator.” Padilla’s California colleague Adam Schiff called for an immediate investigation.

Several other Democrats were dropping the word “fascism” in conversations as they made their way out of the Capitol.

12.06.2025 - 23:07 [ Guardian News / Youtube ]

California senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem LA press conference

Security guards wrestled Padilla out of the conference room as he explained he was a senator and wanted to ask the homeland security secretary a question.

Speaking to reporters after the incident, Padilla said: ‚If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day labourers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country‘

12.06.2025 - 23:04 [ Los Angeles Times ]

Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed by federal agents at immigration press conference

About five minutes into a press conference at the Westwood federal building, Noem told the media that the Trump administration planned to “liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that the governor and the mayor have placed on this country.”

Padilla, who was standing near a wall on one side of the room, then tried to interrupt Noem to ask a question, video footage shows. Cameras turned toward him as two Secret Service agents tried to push him backward. “Sir, sir, hands up,” one said.

11.06.2025 - 22:49 [ Reuters ]

Troops in LA can detain individuals, military official says, as protests spread across US

In addition to protecting government buildings and personnel, the Pentagon has said the troops will safeguard Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during raids.
ICE posted photos online on Tuesday of National Guard troops standing guard with weapons in hand as ICE officers handcuffed apparent migrants against the side of a car in Los Angeles.
An 1878 law, the Posse Comitatus Act, generally forbids the U.S. military, including the National Guard, from taking part in civilian law enforcement.

11.06.2025 - 18:06 [ CNN ]

National Guard protecting law enforcement, DHS says as photos appear to show them at ICE operations

Images shared by ICE on X show authorities arresting individuals, as troops stand by, appearing to guard the area around the operation – in other words, serving as a security perimeter. The caption read: “Photos from today’s ICE Los Angeles immigration enforcement operation.”

Former senior ICE officials who spoke to CNN couldn’t recall any time the National Guard had been involved in an ICE interior operation.

“Even if lawful, however, the idea of the National Guard supplementing ICE officers on interior enforcement is almost certainly a first,” John Sandweg, former acting ICE director during the Obama administration, said.

11.06.2025 - 17:57 [ Julia Brownley, Member of US House of Representatives ]

Brownley, Carbajal Condemn Cruel and Reckless ICE Activities in Ventura County

“We have received disturbing reports of ICE enforcement actions in Ventura County, including in Oxnard, Port Hueneme, and Camarillo, where agents have reportedly stopped vehicles, loitered near schools, and attempted to enter agricultural properties and facilities in the Oxnard Plain. These actions are completely unjustified, deeply harmful, and raise serious questions about the agency’s tactics and its respect for due process.

“Let us be clear: these raids are not about public safety. They are about stoking fear. These are not criminals being targeted. They are hardworking people and families who are an essential part of Ventura County. Our local economy, like much of California’s and the country’s as a whole, depends on undocumented labor. These men and women are the backbone of our farms, our fields, our construction and service industries, and our communities.

“We are outraged by the cruelty and recklessness of this campaign. It is unconscionable. The Trump administration is deliberately inflicting harm on immigrant families and doing so without transparency, accountability, or even basic communication with Congress. Neither we nor our colleagues have received any notification or briefing from ICE about these activities. Our inquiries to the administration have gone unanswered. This total lack of transparency is unacceptable.

08.06.2025 - 15:35 [ KTLA5.com ]

Local congressman on L.A. ICE raids: ‘This administration is operating outside the bounds of the law’

(June 7, 2025)

“We received reports that individuals were being detained here…this place has a capacity of a hundred folks and we heard it’s way above,” Rep. Gomez, whose 34th District includes several prominent ethnic enclaves in Los Angeles, told KTLA. “We have, as members of Congress, a right to conduct oversight…to make sure [detainees] have a place to sleep, that they have access to their medicines, food and water and access to a restroom…they also have a right to counsel.”

“But we were given this excuse that we weren’t allowed in because of our safety,” Gomez continued. “And it’s like ‘What safety issue?’ [because] there’s no safety issue.”

08.06.2025 - 15:26 [ Jimmy Gomez, Member of US House of Representatives ]

Rep. Jimmy Gomez Statement on ICE Detaining Families in Basement of LA Federal Building

Washington, June 6, 2025

LOS ANGELES, CA – Representative Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) issued the following statement in response to disturbing reports that immigrants showing up for routine check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles were detained and held in basement rooms — some overnight — under inhumane conditions:

“These are very disturbing reports from LA‘s Roybal Federal Building. Law-abiding asylum seekers — many with kids — are being detained after showing up for routine ICE check-ins. No food. No water. Locked in holding rooms for over 12 to 24 hours.

“These are not criminals. These are families who followed the rules. Filed the paperwork. Showed up on time. Instead, they‘re being treated like they broke the law just for seeking asylum.

“One attorney reports her client was held without food or water from 2pm through the next day. His wife and 2 kids waited 12+ hours with nothing. No water. No explanation.

08.06.2025 - 14:04 [ KTLA.com ]

Protesters confront immigration agents, deputies during raid in Los Angeles County

United States Attorney Bill Essayli stated on social media that federal law enforcement operations are “proceeding as planned this weekend in Los Angeles County” and advised that anyone who tries to interfere with their enforcement will be arrested and prosecuted.

Early Saturday afternoon, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem put out a similar warning.

07.06.2025 - 14:10 [ NBC Los Angeles ]

Protesters clash with federal agents at Chinatown parking lot

Newschopper4 was over the scene on Hill Street as the crowd confronted federal agents from the FBI and HSI.

It‘s unclear what the federal agents were doing in Chinatown.

HSI vehicles and unmarked cars were seen parked at the location. The crowd was preventing some of the vehicles from entering the parking lot.

07.06.2025 - 14:05 [ New York Times ]

Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid

The operation was one of at least three immigration sweeps conducted in Los Angeles on Friday. In the other one, federal agents converged at a Home Depot where day laborers regularly gather in search of work.

The raid at the clothing wholesaler began about 9:15 a.m. in the Fashion District, less than two miles from Los Angeles City Hall.

It was an extraordinary show of force.

07.06.2025 - 13:48 [ @Firstpost / Youtube ]

Anti-Immigration Crackdown Protesters Clash with Police ..

Anti-immigration crackdown protests outside a federal detention centre turned violent in Los Angeles as protesters clashed with police. The clashes followed 44 arrests made by federal immigration authorities. The police used pepper spray and flash bangs to disperse the demonstrators.

07.06.2025 - 13:40 [ LiveNOW from FOX / Youtube ]

WATCH: DHS agents clash with protesters in LA | LiveNOW from FOX

The FBI provided the following statements on the law enforcement activity:

„As we have been asked to do, we are sending Agents to participate in these immigration enforcement efforts. That includes assisting in cities where major operations are already underway and where we have special agents embedded on operational teams with DHS. Our help may vary depending on what DHS needs, such as SWAT operators, who can support high risk arrest operations, and other resources such as intelligence analysts and technical support working from command posts.“

07.06.2025 - 13:31 [ MSNBC / Youtube ]

‚Massive‘: Los Angeles protests erupt over ‚worst fear‘ ICE raids

NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff reports live from Los Angeles as protests continue over ICE operations throughout the city.

07.06.2025 - 13:29 [ Los Angeles Times ]

Los Angeles ICE raids spark protests, fear, outrage. ‘Our community is under attack’

The use of so-called less-lethal munitions was authorized at 8 p.m. following reports of a small group of “violent individuals” throwing large pieces of concrete at officers, police said. A citywide tactical alert was issued shortly thereafter.

Chaos erupted earlier in the day in the heart of the Fashion District after federal immigration authorities detained employees inside a clothing wholesaler, and used flash-bang grenades and pepper spray on a crowd protesting the raid around 1:30 p.m.