ICE Moves to Shackle Some 180,000 Immigrants with GPS Ankle Monitors

THE WASHINGTON POST: A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has directed personnel to sharply increase the number of immigrants they shackle with GPS-enabled ankle monitors, as the Trump administration widens surveillance of people it is targeting for deportation, according to an internal ICE document reviewed by The Washington Post.

In a June 9 memo, ICE ordered staff to place ankle monitors on all people enrolled in the agency’s Alternatives to Detention program “whenever possible.” About 183,000 adult migrants are enrolled in ATD and had previously consented to some form of tracking or mandatory check-ins while they waited for their immigration cases to be resolved. Currently, just 24,000 of these individuals wear ankle monitors. » | Douglas MacMillan and Silvia Foster-Frau | Thursday, July 24, 2025

"Unprecedented": Trump Raises ICE Arrest and Detention Quotas to Fulfil Anti-immigrant Agenda

Jul 22, 2025 | ICE is reportedly racing to build more detention tent camps nationwide after Congress allocated an unprecedented $45 billion in new funding over the next four years to lock up immigrants, as part of Trump's massive tax and spending package. The Department of Homeland Security is also preparing to start detaining immigrants at more military bases, including in New Jersey and Indiana, as well as to transfer more immigrants to the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to NPR.

This comes as the Trump administration is moving to revoke access to bond hearings for people who entered the U.S. through "non-approved channels."

The new policy could potentially impact millions of undocumented people and orders officers to detain immigrants for the length of their removal proceedings — a process which can take months or even years.

"This administration is using every tool that it has to target the immigrant community, to scare the immigrant community," says Adriel Orozco, senior policy counsel at the American Immigration Council.

Orozco notes that most immigrants will likely never get the chance to fight their case before a judge under Trump's aggressive deportation policies.

Ice Chief Says He Will Continue to Allow Agents to Wear Masks during Arrest Raids

THE GUARDIAN: Legal advocates and attorneys general argue practice poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear

The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said on Sunday that he will continue allowing the controversial practice of his officers wearing masks over their faces during their arrest raids.

As Donald Trump has ramped up his unprecedented effort to deport immigrants around the country, Ice officers have become notorious for wearing masks to approach and detain people, often with force. Legal advocates and attorneys general have argued that it poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear. » | Michael Sainato | Sunday, July 20, 2025

Trump Grants ICE 'Total Authorization’ In Defense of So Called ‘THUGS’ in Violent Immigration Raids

Jul 15, 2025 | Trump grants ICE agents ‘total authorization’ to defend against ‘THUGS’ by ‘Whatever means is necessary’. "ICE is now going to be the largest law enforcement agency in history.

ICE Is Coming for All of Our Rights

Jul 7, 2025 | CATO's David Bier explains who ICE has scooped up—93 percent are not criminals—and what's coming next.

Trump's Secret Police Get $150 Billion Infusion to Remove People of Color from America's Streets

July 11, 2025 | Federal immigration agents from ICE and other agencies have ratcheted up enforcement raids, arresting and detaining anyone they suspect of violating immigration laws.

Critics warn that their tactic of masking — particularly when wearing plain clothes and no visible marker of identity — spreads fear and panic across communities and imperils citizens as well as immigrants without legal status.

"Big Beautiful Bill" is the WORST Piece of Legislation in American History

Jul 7, 2025 | With Trump's "big beautiful bill" being signed into law, many Americans will be stripped of health insurance and food aid. Steve Schmidt breaks down what's inside the bill and explains the massive impacts it will have on American lives.

When I see Trump grinning like a Cheshire cat, showing his false teeth, I feel like puking! 🤮 – © Mark Alexander

‘This Is FASCISM’: Detained Scholar on His ICE Kidnapping

Jun 25, 2025 | Georgetown scholar and former ICE detainee Badar Khan Suri joined Zeteo’s political correspondent Prem Thakker to share the details and the horrors of his kidnapping and detention.

Suri talked about the government’s case (or lack thereof) against him, his difficult yet profound experiences in detention, and how this has impacted his free speech, and the free speech of those all across the country.

In detention, Suri faced dismal conditions. The “acute malnutrition” only exacerbated other issues. One prison guard punched him behind his knee as he was unshackling him, a pain that has radiated since.

Despite the troubling conditions Suri faced, as well as the awful circumstances he observed his fellow detainees being forced into, he maintained a remarkable optimism.

“The US is not just the administration; the United States is the entire society. It's my wife's country, it's your country, it's the place of my work,” he told Prem. “So, I am an integral part of it, and it's an integral part of me, and societies are what we make.”

Trump & ICE Barbie Plot Arrest of CNN Reporters over iPhone App

Jul 2, 2025 | Jesse talks about the fascists openly plotting the arrest of CNN journalists for reporting on the existence of an iPhone app called ICEBlock

Do Americans realise how common they look when they wear those ugly baseball caps? They might well be okay for young people, but older folk wearing them look as common as muck. If they think they look cool, they need to think again! Baseball caps on older folk are neither cool nor stylish. – © Mark Alexander

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Defies Judicial Orders to Return Kidnapped Migrants Deported to Foreign Prisons

Jun 25, 2025 | An appeals court has ordered the Trump regime to return to the US Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, wrongfully deported to El Salvador and to explain how it is complying in a ruling apparently designed to break a pattern of apparent government defiance of judicial orders.

Mahmoud Khalil Is Free: Follow His Journey from ICE Jail Back to Gates of Columbia University

Jun 23, 2025 | Democracy Now! was there when Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his family over the weekend after being released on bail by a federal judge Friday, ending his detention in a Louisiana ICE jail after more than 100 days. Khalil was seized by federal agents at his home in New York on March 8, with the Trump administration seeking to deport him even though he is a legal permanent resident with a green card and married to a U.S. citizen. Khalil’s wife Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant at the time of the arrest and gave birth to their son while he was jailed. “I just want to go back and continue the work I was already doing, advocating for Palestinian rights,” says Khalil, who played a prominent role in the Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University last spring. He addressed over 1,000 supporters at a rally Sunday before leading a march to the gates of the school. We feature part of Khalil’s comments and also hear from Democratic Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and members of Khalil’s legal team.

Gov. Walz says ICE is 'Trump's Modern-day Gestapo'

May 20, 2025 | Gov. Walz is facing pushback from the Department of Homeland Security after he compared ICE to the Nazi police force the Gestapo while speaking at a University of Minnesota Law School graduation over the weekend.