Trump 2025 immigration enforcement and border actions

U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez from federal custody.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the judge put American lives at risk by releasing a wanted murderer.

The ruling did not clear Aviles Perez of wrongdoing or find that he posed no danger.

Dree Collopy argues the new US visa policy could make people who lawfully enter the US more vulnerable to arrest and deportation when they later seek asylum.

Dree Collopy says the new US visa policy risks turning the legal immigration system into another detention tool.

Dree Collopy is an immigration lawyer.

The whistleblower's attorney, Kevin Owen, said his client was met with retaliation by DHS, including being interrogated, threatened with criminal charges, and placed on leave for over ten months.

The whistleblower complaint alleged that ICE was issuing final job offers to applicants before any preliminary vetting by the personnel security division.

Corey Lewandowski served as a de facto chief of staff for former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem until she was fired by President Donald Trump in March 2026.

According to a DHS spokesperson, the Cuban hunger striker entered the US unlawfully in 1980 and was ordered deported in 2004.

Savannah Kumar, a staff attorney at the ACLU of Texas, said the cruelty of ICE's extreme tactics to end lawful protest underscores the horrors happening in ICE detention centers.

The Guardian is not naming the man because efforts to contact him have been unsuccessful.

The five games on Arcade.gov are titled 'Flappy Bill,' 'Build the Wall,' 'Rio Run,' 'Supply Line' and 'Trump Savings Tycoon.'

The White House did not respond to questions about whether contractors were hired or taxpayer funds were used for the project.

The game 'Build the Wall' is a Tetris-like game where players are encouraged to protect the border from zombies.

Under the arrangement, deportees will await the outcome of their immigration process in Guyana.

Guyana received six people deported from the United States.

Some of the third-country deportation deals have involved multimillion-dollar payments.

Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said the United States is employing defensive counter-drone technology to protect personnel and border security operations from cartel-linked drone threats.

Kingsley Wilson said the actions are closely coordinated with Mexican military and border authorities to ensure safety and deconfliction on both sides of the border.

Each drone takedown operation was coordinated with the Mexican military and border authorities.

Rev Deborah Lee said that warden Christopher Chestnut told her facilities with contact visits had higher overdose rates.

The warden of the California City facility is Christopher Chestnut.

Ryan Gustin, a CoreCivic spokesperson, said that facility leadership determined non-contact visitation is the most appropriate approach given security considerations.

Tom Homan said in July that ICE would investigate apparent shortcomings in the vetting of an officer who shot and killed a 25-year-old motorist in Maine.

The hiring pace was fueled by a $50,000 signing bonus.

The Department of Homeland Security has since increased the amount of training for new officers.

Caballero-Nolasco is charged with two counts of grossly negligent manslaughter, two counts of homicide by motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol, and life-threatening injury by a motor vehicle.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said ICE has lodged a detainer asking Maryland officials to not release Caballero-Nolasco back onto the streets.

Caballero-Nolasco did not show any signs of braking before the crash.

Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was raped and murdered on the Ma and Pa Trail in Bel Air in August 2023.

Gahler said Harford County joined the 287(g) program under President Barack Obama.

The Community Trust Act limits when Maryland authorities can question people about their immigration status, hold them over suspected civil violations or notify ICE that they are in custody.

Federal prosecutors dropped charges against Sosa-Celis and Aljorna the next month, and DHS backed off its narrative after video evidence revealed the agents' sworn testimony appeared false.

Castro fired through a closed door knowing the home was occupied by several people, according to state charging documents.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans told lawyers that Castro would be charged only with False Statements.

ICE announced a policy allowing the agency to pursue civil penalties against attorneys accused of facilitating fraudulent asylum claims.

The policy is part of the Trump administration's broader effort to tighten the asylum system through changes to immigration enforcement and litigation strategy.

ICE sought financial penalties against a New York immigration attorney accused of filing fraudulent asylum applications.

Attorneys are filing habeas corpus petitions to force federal officials to justify the detention of children or release them.

The Trump administration has undone privacy protections for undocumented sponsors, allowing ORR to collaborate with immigration enforcement at DHS.

HHS stated that ORR's standards closely mirror those of the US foster care system and that ORR releases children as quickly or faster than the foster system.

Murphy posted to X on Friday that Trump's claim ICE is targeting criminals is a lie.

Danbury Mayor Roberto Alves said close to 50 community members were detained last week.

Federal court records show Morocho-Arteaga filed a habeas corpus petition in Connecticut on Wednesday, the day of his arrest.

The Trump administration has sent thousands of people to third countries where they have no ties under quietly struck agreements.

It was the third deportation flight from the US to the Central African Republic in 2026.

The deportation flight landed in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, on Saturday, carrying 12 Afghans and eight Iranians, as well as people from Nepal and Nicaragua.

Judge Wise criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio for what she described as a 'standardless' enforcement of his visa revocation policy.

Judge Wise was appointed by former President Joe Biden.

Mahmoud Khalil is a permanent US resident and a graduate student at Columbia University.

The tribe said the construction still constitutes trespassing even if contained to the Roosevelt Reservation.

The Trump administration has started construction of a section of a border wall in Arizona.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon wrote that defendants had not yet articulated plans to construct outside the Roosevelt Reservation.

The Trump administration has brokered third country deportation agreements with dozens of nations around the world.

An immigration judge in 2021 granted Tellez Sanchez protection from being sent back to Venezuela, finding that he could be persecuted there.

Tellez Sanchez worked at a car dealership in Dallas during the day and drove for Uber Eats at night.

Fifteen county sheriffs are challenging the law in federal court.

The law prohibits state and local entities from entering or remaining in 287(g) agreements with ICE.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which took effect Tuesday.

Since its establishment in 2025, the border task force has conducted tens of thousands of detection and monitoring patrols and thousands of observation flights.

The operation took place in southern Texas' Rio Grande Valley.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said any unilateral U.S. action on Mexican soil would be a grave breach of her country's sovereignty.

USAJOBS described the expo as DHS's premier large-scale hiring event.

Convention center President and CEO Patrick Kaler said management first asked DHS to hold the event without ICE.

Erie County owns the Buffalo Convention Center but does not manage its bookings or daily operations.

The Justice Department argued that the state laws violate a federal law requiring that in-state higher education benefits for illegal immigrants must also be available to every U.S. student.

A June 2024 report estimated that roughly 408,000 illegal immigrants were enrolled in higher education, with 29.1% arriving in the United States at age 17 or older.

Washington created the Undocumented Student Support Loan Program under a bill passed in 2020 to provide financial aid to illegal immigrants unable to obtain federal financial aid.

Aguilar Cruz was arrested on April 27, 2019, in Prince William County, Virginia, on charges of threatening to bomb or burn and making a threat in writing, and was released on bond on Aug. 9, 2019.

Three of nine men arrested in a Virginia child exploitation sting are illegal aliens who have been released on bond.

ICE placed a detainer on Aguilar Cruz with the Fairfax County Detention Center on July 31, and he has since been released on a $3,000 secured bond.

A second deportation flight since the termination of TPS for Haitian migrants landed in Haiti on Thursday with 57 people, including families, aboard.

The Haitian Bridge Alliance said the deportation flight included children born in the United States.

At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others kidnapped in Haiti during the week of the deportation flight, according to Haitian officials.

In 2024, Boston Dynamics robot dogs were seen patrolling Mar-A-Lago in viral social media videos.

The Department of Homeland Security approved spending $16 million for ICE to purchase electric shock gloves for officers around the country.

The robot dogs are equipped with 360-degree cameras and can open doors.

Victor Martinez Nieto and Liam Tadeo were detained by authorities in Austin, Texas, earlier this month while on their way to a soccer match.

Martinez Nieto was arrested by immigration officers in November 2025 and deported in February.

The father and son were both held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Family members say officials reviewed the mother and daughter's documents and determined their visas had expired while asylum cases were pending.

An Ecuadorian mother and her 19-year-old daughter were reportedly detained by ICE immigration agents while getting treatment in a Florida hospital after a car crash.

The Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which Hochul signed in May, took effect on Tuesday.

More than a dozen New York sheriffs are suing over a state law prohibiting law enforcement from entering into or maintaining certain agreements with ICE for civil immigration enforcement.

The subpoenas were sent to the sheriff's offices of Broome, Steuben, Nassau and Rensselaer counties, as well as the Nassau County Police Department.

A public-charge determination can make an immigrant visa applicant inadmissible if officials determine the person is likely to become dependent on certain forms of public assistance.

A federal judge struck down a State Department policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, ruling that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statutory authority.

The Trump administration directed U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide to postpone immigrant visa interviews while consular officers complete training on new public-charge guidance.

Campos illegally entered the United States through Florida in May 2022 under the Biden Administration, according to ICE.

Meliza Campos-Sanchez is facing two counts of child neglect, one count of child abuse and an arson charge stemming from an Aug. 16 incident.

Campos is a social media influencer with 87,000 Instagram followers, according to investigators.

The Tohono O’odham Nation has had a years-long fight with the Trump administration over building a border wall through tribal land.

The Tohono O’odham legislature voted unanimously in June to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over efforts to appropriate tribal land for the barrier.

The Tohono O’odham Nation is a federally recognised tribe of around 37,000 members and sits along roughly 100km of the US-Mexico border, with territory in Arizona and Sonora.

The Trump administration has paused all US immigrant visa applications.

Up to 200,000 people currently seeking asylum could be impacted by the plans to revoke visas.

The Trump administration announced plans to revoke visas from asylum seekers who initially entered the country for tourism or business.

Miami saw an average of 715 ICE arrests per month in June and July, up from 115.

ICE has 287(g) agreements with more than 1,850 city, county and state agencies.

About 12,700 ICE arrests in June and July came from 287(g) agreements.

The 49,571 arrests in July was the highest number since October 2022.

TPS for Salvadorans is set to expire in September, ending protections for 170,000 people.

The Department of Homeland Security received a $70bn funding surge.

DHS confirmed Villafranca-Trejo's deportation and said she had received due process.

Villafranca-Trejo was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2017 after failing to appear at a hearing.

Turcios Juarez and Villafranca-Trejo have a six-year-old daughter.

The father of a sailor deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln was released by immigration authorities on a Tuesday.

According to DHS, Border Patrol arrested Luis Manuel Aviles Roa on August 22 in Key West, Florida.

Luis Manuel Aviles Roa is the father of Joshua Aviles.

The indictment of 15 protesters focused on Direct Action Minnesota.

Nine agents were deployed in February to trail four protesters to determine a pattern of life and gather potential intelligence.

The indictment does not include charges of serious violence or allegations that defendants injured specific ICE officers.

The State Department is coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security to identify and revoke the visas.

The Associated Press reported the plan citing State Department documents and two US officials.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said people are fed up with bogus asylum claims and that asylum should not be a loophole to circumvent immigration law.

Wu signed Executive Orders with six other cities across Greater Boston prohibiting ICE from staging operations on municipal property and parking lots.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued an open letter to parking garage and lot owners in Boston revealing the city had submitted a FOIA request for any local responses to ICE.

ICE issued a notice seeking to rent parking spaces in Boston for five years.

The sheriff's office said the driver was discovered to be in the United States illegally from Ecuador after overstaying an expired visa by several years.

The women were transported by ambulance to HCA Florida Poinciana hospital and placed in separate rooms.

Grace Stephanie Calero Cabanilla is 39 years old and her daughter Giulianna Mía Carriel Calero is 19 years old.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau wrote on X that people in the US and all over the world are fed up with bogus asylum claims.

The plan would target B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum.

Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term last year, his administration has ramped up restrictions on visa applicants including demanding more information about social media histories, requiring expensive bonds for visa processing, and banning visa issuance to citizens of certain countries.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security described the operation as one of the most successful in the history of security agencies.

More than 1,300 people were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Virginia and Maryland over a two-week period.

Authorities say Domenech allegedly pulled a gun from a fanny pack and shot Aballe in the stomach.

DHS says ICE took William Serrano Domenech into custody in 2023 and he was released by the Biden administration.

William Serrano Domenech is charged with second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

DHS spokesperson Zach Kahler said the proposed H-1B fee is intended to recover costs incurred across the federal government to adjudicate, vet, and support lawful immigration programs.

Trump has argued that the H-1B program is abused by many companies who replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor.

Earlier in the month, DHS added fees of up to $4,500 to applications to extend the stay of H-1B workers or to transfer employees based in other countries to the U.S.

The ruling does not require the State Department to issue visas to any particular applicant.

Judge Vargas is a Biden appointee who joined the Southern District of New York bench in November 2024.

The visa policy did not apply to tourist or other nonimmigrant visas.

Earlier in August, DHS added fees of up to $4,500 to applications to extend the stay of H-1B workers or transfer employees based in other countries to the US.

The proposed fee was published in the US Federal Register on Monday and will be subject to a 30-day public comment period.

The H-1B programme offers 65,000 visas annually, with another 20,000 for workers with advanced degrees.

Almost 400 of the arrested illegal immigrants had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.

The operation was titled "Operation Safe Community — Washington, D.C."

The arrests took place in Virginia and Maryland.

A doctor told the Guardian that force-feeding detainees qualifies as torture.

At least two detainees — a Haitian woman, Daphy Michael, and a blind Rohingya man, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a refugee from Myanmar — have frozen to death after being released by DHS into the cold without adequate money or clothing.

The Homeland Security Agency will spend up to $20m to equip its agents with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to the skin of a person deemed uncooperative.

The processing of asylum claims has largely ground to a halt during Trump's administration.

The South African government has rejected as unfounded and politically motivated US officials' claims that South Africans, primarily Afrikaners, face racial discrimination and "white genocide."

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in July that the department had identified over 250,000 potential non-citizens illegally registered to vote in California, Nevada, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, but the confirmed number was later found to be far lower.

Joshua Elswick sued Lt Ryan Derrough alleging excessive force after Derrough used the gloves on Elswick during pre-trial detention.

The device is branded G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and is manufactured by Compliant Technologies.

An estimated 50 police departments across 20 states are using the technology, according to an NPR analysis.

The ancient rock art murals in west Texas were drawn perhaps 4,000 years ago.

The construction path runs through Seminole Canyon state park, which is home to 27 rock art murals.

Customs and Border Protection plans to expand its 'smart wall' using a mix of steel bollard fencing, vehicle barriers and hi-tech surveillance.

DHS said immigration status, not race or ethnicity, determines who is targeted for enforcement.

Homan said sanctuary cities make communities less safe by releasing public safety threats back into the public.

Nixon said Republicans are "literally trying to kill us" on the "QNA: Questions Need Answers" podcast.

Other measures in the legislative package would allocate extra border security funding to the War Department, limit chain migration, and target grants to colleges that employ illegal immigrants.

The proposed Dalilah Law would mandate states to cease issuing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and certain foreign nationals.

Senator Jim Banks is pressing the Senate to take up a package of seven immigration bills.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas stated that the policy was contrary to law and exceeded Secretary Rubio's statutory authority.

A federal judge struck down the Trump administration's policy suspending immigrant visa issuance for nationals of 75 countries.

The State Department announced the visa suspension policy in January.

ICE stated that the Redondo Beach Police Department declined to honor its detainer requests for Perez-Garcia in 2020 and 2026.

According to ICE, Perez-Garcia illegally entered the United States five times and made four additional attempts to enter.

ICE removed Perez-Garcia to Mexico for the first time in May 2006.

Moreno de Armas arrived in Florida by boat in September 2016 under the 'parole' legal authority of the now-defunct 'Wet Foot, Dry Foot' policy.

Yasmany Moreno de Armas, a 31-year-old Cuban immigrant, was deported by the U.S. to the Central African Republic.

Moreno de Armas and other deportees have been living in a building in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.

Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah stated that individuals transferred to Liberia would be received as guests of the Republic, are free to leave, and may seek asylum.

The Liberian government reported that the deportation arrangement rests on diplomatic notes exchanged on September 4 and September 10 of the previous year.

The United States and Liberia signed a five-year, $124 million health memorandum on December 9, 2025.

The Trump administration reestablished the VOICE office in April 2025.

Guatemalan national Julio Cucul-Bol was captured in Texas following the fatal crash while attempting to flee to Mexico.

Joe Abraham's daughter, Katie, was killed in January 2025 by a drunk driver in Illinois.