Tag Archives: ICE

Minnesota prosecutors charged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian J. Castro, 52, on Monday with assault in the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis in north Minneapolis. The ICE agent, who was identified for the first time publicly on Monday, faces four counts of second-degree assault as well as …

A former executive at private prison contractor GEO Group has been selected to lead the federal agency at the center of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS announced Tuesday that David Venturella will serve as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, …

The House on Thursday approved a Senate-passed funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, ending a record 75-day shutdown just hours before emergency funds were set to run dry and thousands of federal workers risked missing paychecks. The measure passed by voice vote, allowing lawmakers to avoid recording …

Todd Lyons, the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Thursday he will resign at the end of May, marking a significant leadership change at the agency tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Lyons said …

Major U.S. airports continued to warn travelers of long security lines Sunday, even after Donald Trump ordered emergency pay for Transportation Security Administration officers amid the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown. The directive, issued Friday, instructs the Department of Homeland Security to begin paying TSA workers who have gone …

House Republicans on Friday narrowly passed a short-term funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, advancing legislation that is unlikely to clear the Senate and could prolong the ongoing shutdown. The measure passed 213-203 after House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a bipartisan Senate bill that would fund most DHS …

The Justice Department this week acknowledged it made a “material mistaken statement of fact” in federal court by incorrectly citing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo to justify arrests at immigration courthouses. In a letter filed Tuesday, government lawyers told U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel that a May 2025 ICE …

Senate Republicans on Tuesday proposed a plan to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, as disruptions at airports worsen and thousands of federal workers continue to go without pay. The proposal would fund most of DHS but exclude the branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement responsible …

A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing certain taxpayer data with immigration authorities, dealing an early setback to immigrant advocacy groups challenging a controversial data-sharing agreement under the Trump administration. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. …

A former instructor at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement warned Congress on Monday that the agency’s rapid expansion under President Donald Trump is sending new officers into the field without adequate training to lawfully carry out immigration enforcement. “New cadets are graduating from the Academy, despite widespread concerns among training …

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because the statutory 90-day detention period has expired and the federal government has no viable plan to deport him, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said the government failed to show that Abrego Garcia’s removal is …

President Donald Trump’s border czar on Thursday announced an imminent end to Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping federal immigration crackdown that sent thousands of agents to Minnesota, sparked widespread protests and left two people dead. Border Czar Tom Homan said the large-scale deployment would begin winding down within days, with …

President Donald Trump’s top immigration officials appeared before Congress on Tuesday for the first time since the fatal shootings of two American citizens in Minneapolis, seeking to defend their agencies’ actions as lawmakers pressed them over accountability, transparency and the scope of nationwide immigration enforcement operations. Todd Lyons, the acting …

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to sweeping changes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign. With DHS funding set to expire next week, Democratic leaders say they will withhold …

A Border Patrol agent warned Nicole Cleland last month that she’d be arrested if she were again discovered following and observing federal officers. Three days later, the 56-year-old Richfield resident received an email saying her expedited airport security screening privileges had been revoked. Cleland is a frequent traveler and had …