Saturday, February 1, 2025

ICE and Hestafo arrest tracker here [updated as of April 15, 2025]

[Read Enter the Hestafo and language resistance and Read their lips, tweets 
and releases: If you’re not a U.S. citizen, you’re probably 
an illegal immigrant and deportable]
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Resistance to deliberate dehumanization

A must listen. It's haunting. - The Sidewalk Where She Vanished


Venezuelan man tackled in courthouse and sent by ICE to Texas-April 14, 2025-Associated Press

Social Security Lists Thousands of Migrants as Dead to Prompt Them to ‘Self-Deport’: By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services-April 10, 2025-NY Times

Around 1,000 march in Sackets Harbor (NY) to seek return of family taken by ICE--April 5-WWNY /
ICE frees mother and three kids after protests in US ‘border czar’s’ home town: About a thousand people marched outside of Tom Homan’s home in village of less than 1,500 after family was detained-April 5, 2025-The Guardian





College students are the target du jour: 



UA [Univ. of Alabama] student reportedly detained by ICE-March 26, 2025-The Crimson White. The Iranian student was a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering. His F-1 student visa was revoked. A Hestafo spokesperson said only that the student posed  "significant national security concerns." 

Federal authorities detain Tufts student in Somerville: The university received notice that an international graduate student was detained off campus- The student is a Turkish national and doctoral candidate, and is being held in federal custody in Louisiana-March 26, 2025-Tufts Daily

Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in raids and sweeps-March 18, 2025-ProPublica


ICE, and Hestafo should stick with deporting criminals. Stop making immigrants we all know into illegals by including lawful permanent residents, asylum seekers, refugees, even some students on F1 visas if they’ve failed to register as aliens or failed to carry registration cards.

Stop running the country like a junta, ignoring judicial orders and dehumanizing people to stoke anger.

Homan talking tough guy: "I'm comin' to Boston. I'm bringin' hell with me."

They bolstered their wholesale mass deportation frenzy by getting a dozen paralyzed Senate Democrats to go along with the Laken Riley Act that fits into Trump’s goose step hopscotch that starts in square one with upping the illegal ante to crossing the border without authorization to shoplifting to being charged with any offense, even if not convicted, then to failing to register as aliens or failing to carry registration cards, two violations that heretofore haven’t been prosecuted. That goes for lawful permanent residents too.


If people are arrested and disappear into a system and detention centers without notice or hearings, mixed in with dangerous “worst, first” criminals and dispatched to who knows where (not the families), that’s the price of demagoguery. It comes in the following forms in the following locations. This is only two days worth and Trump is apoplectic that the roundups aren’t going faster:


New Hampshire-German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials: Berlin checking if US immigration policy has changed after Fabian Schmidt becomes third German to be detained-March 18, 2025-The Guardian.

New Mexico-Lawyers and advocates say 48 people are unaccounted for after ICE raid in New Mexico-March 17, 2025-NBC Real Change News

Midwest-Families impacted by ICE raids denounce Trump administration’s arrests, file emergency motion-March 18, 2025-Chicago Tribune

Going, going, gone. Not a criminal among them.


Click on photo to check out story and video
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants 
even as a judge orders their removals be stopped


As Trump Broadens Crackdown, Focus Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists: U.S. border officials are using more aggressive tactics at ports of entry as the administration scrutinizes green card and visa holders who have expressed opposition to its policies-March 21, 2025-NY Times


Georgetown University researcher detained by immigration authorities, lawyer says…:

Indian national Badar Khan Suri was detained outside his Virginia home for spreading “Hamas propaganda,” DHS said. His lawyer said he was innocent-March 19-Washington Post

German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials: Berlin checking if US immigration policy has changed after Fabian Schmidt becomes third German to be detained-March 18, 2025-The Guardian



ICE arrests Columbia graduate student and activist, lawyer says - March 10                                                                His attorney said the "ICE agents who arrested him claimed his student visa had been revoked — even though he is a legal permanent resident and not in the U.S. on a student visa." DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the arrest in a statement on Sunday night. A Columbia University spokesperson issued a statement acknowledging “reports of ICE around campus.”

“I thought they were going to be targeting criminals. No one mentioned during the campaigning of Donald Trump that residents … legal residents … were going to have to go through this,” said Estefany Peña, 30, from Lincoln, California, who supported Trump for reelection. Her husband, who came to the country legally in 1999 and has a green card, went to an immigration office in San Francisco for a check-in in late January and still hasn’t come home, she said. “Everything just came crumbling down” when immigration officers wouldn’t let her husband leave. Cal Matters, Feb. 11

ICE and The Hestafo [Homeland Security Task Forces] have been unleashed. They've boasted that they've deported nearly 40,000 people during Trump's first month in office. The daily data on the ICE sites appear to be current only through Jan. 31. The official figures don't reconcile. The 37,660 people that ICE and Hestafo claim to have been deported, Reuters reported on Feb. 22, are below the monthly average of 57,000 removals in the last full year of Biden's administration.




DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort, according to The Wall St. Journal, Feb. 10, 2025
ICE posts immigration raid info, photos and tweets regularly on X and Instagram, 
but it doesn't disclose how many of those arrested are released, remain in detention, 
have been deported or how many are undocumented or have criminal records. 
The data stopped being current on Jan. 31. The sites showcase photos of raids and ID by name those it calls "The Worst First." 
They include the two at the bottom of this page, one for overstayingthe terms of his admission to the US, one for firearm possession and another for assault. 
In his remarks to CPAC 2025, Border Czar Tom Homan clarified what Worst First means to him: 
"But you arrested non-criminals. Yah, damn right we did because you happen to be in our country illegally ,
which happens to be a violation of our law. Entering this country illegally is a crime and we're not gonna forgive it."
You can find ongoing coverage of immigrant raids from 2025 by location here [Note: some of the info in the stories is provided by ICE & Hestafo to show how successful their operations are. That info is seldom verifiable.]

Guam.  ICE Raids Expand to Guam - Feb. 3

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday said more than 100 people were arrested during an operation the day before in a sprawling, majority Latino housing development outside of Houston — but only released information about one of the arrests.









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