Human Impact Project

ProPublica documented nearly 50 incidents of ICE officers breaking car windows to make arrests since Trump took office, compared to just eight in the previous decade. The tactic has resulted in injuries to detainees including children and U.S. citizens. Use-of-force experts say there is no official policy authorizing the practice, but officers who employ it are being promoted rather than disciplined.

Guillermo Medina Reyes, a 31-year-old San Jose tattoo artist and Mexican national, was arrested in Berkeley on July 27 following an alleged vehicle theft crime spree. Reyes had been fighting ICE deportation efforts, with a judge barring his detention two weeks prior to the arrest. He was charged with multiple felonies including carjacking, vehicle theft, and grand theft. Reyes faces criminal prosecution and potential imprisonment, followed by deportation proceedings.

Guillermo Medina Reyes, 31, a San Jose tattoo artist facing ICE deportation, was arrested in Berkeley after authorities say he attempted three carjackings on Sunday. Reyes was described as combative and altered when detained and was taken for mental evaluation after the incidents.

Sandra was arrested by ICE during a routine check-in appointment at the agency's San Francisco field office on July 11, 2025, and has since been held in a detention center awaiting updates on her pending asylum case. Her husband Roberto, who recently obtained legal status, was present during the arrest. Sandra remains in detention with an uncertain timeline for resolution of her years-long immigration proceedings.

Multiple men across at least three states have been arrested for impersonating ICE agents to sexually assault immigrant women since Trump's inauguration. Cases include a man in Prince George's County, Maryland who raped a Latina woman while posing as an ICE agent, and another in Raleigh, North Carolina who kidnapped and raped an immigrant woman while threatening deportation.

A Guardian investigation found that ICE increasingly detains people in small holding facilities for days or weeks in violation of federal policy. ICE had previously prohibited detention longer than 12 hours in these facilities, but a June memo allowed up to three days. Analysis of detention data found ICE uses at least 170 holding facilities nationwide, with some locations seeing detention times increase by nearly 600% after the rule change.

The Trump administration is planning to expand ICE detention capacity in Colorado by opening as many as six new detention facilities across the state, including locations in Walsenburg, Hudson, Colorado Springs, and La Junta. Congress approved $45 billion for new immigration detention centers to support the administration's goal of doubling detention capacity nationwide. ACLU litigation obtained FOIA documents revealing these expansion plans, identifying potential sites that include closed or former correctional facilities. Private prison operators including the GEO Group have proposed expanding existing facilities and reopening shuttered prisons to support ICE's Denver Field Office. Over 3,000 people were detained in Colorado's ICE network in 2025, including 39 children ages 9 or younger at the Denver location, with arrests in the field office increasing nearly 300 percent since Trump took office.

The American Civil Liberties Union obtained documents through FOIA litigation revealing ICE's plans to expand immigration detention facilities in Colorado. The documents identify six potential detention sites under consideration, many of which are closed facilities owned by private prison corporations. The expansion comes after Congress allocated $45 billion to ICE for nationwide detention infrastructure expansion.

Bellingcat analyzed videos of over 100 immigration raids in Los Angeles between June 6 and June 22, 2025, documenting patterns in enforcement by ICE and CBP officers. The raids targeted workers at car washes, street vendors, and Home Depot parking lots, with officers often masked, unmarked, and using unmarked vehicles. Some have claimed the tactics constitute racial profiling and violation of federal law regarding identification and warrants.

The Trump administration expanded mandatory immigration detention in July 2025 to include all immigrants who arrived illegally, regardless of criminal history. North Lake Detention Center in Baldwin, Michigan, experienced a surge from 400 to nearly 1,400 detainees by late 2025, resulting in inadequate medical care, multiple 911 calls, at least one death, and numerous cases of medical neglect.

A 60-year-old Afghan migrant, Baqir Rezaei, died in an Iranian detention camp in Zabol after being intercepted despite holding an official exit permit. He was held without food or water and forced to work under extreme heat conditions. According to his family, at least eight migrants died in the camp out of 35 who lost consciousness from heat and thirst.

Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced motions to require LAPD to verify the identities of individuals claiming to be law enforcement and increase penalties for impersonating public safety personnel. The motions address plainclothes individuals in unmarked vehicles conducting immigration enforcement without proper identification. The motions were introduced following immigration enforcement actions in Huntington Park and other areas across Los Angeles County.