Human Impact Project

Victor Acurio Suárez, a 52-year-old Ecuadorian man with developmental disabilities living in Seaford, Delaware, has been detained at an ICE facility in Pennsylvania for three months following his arrest in a Lowe's parking lot. Governor Matt Meyer called for his immediate release and asylum. Suárez has no criminal history and has a credible fear of gang violence if deported to Ecuador.

Young children were left unattended on the side of the road after ICE agents detained their parents and an older sibling during an enforcement action in Cicero, Illinois.

Ismael Ayala-Uribe, a 39-year-old Mexican national and former DACA recipient, died on September 22, 2025, while in ICE custody at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. He was arrested by ICE/Border Patrol agents on August 17, 2025, during an enforcement operation at Fountain Valley Auto Wash and transferred to Adelanto on August 22. During his detention, Ayala-Uribe reported illness symptoms including cough, fever, shaking, and pain for approximately two weeks. On September 19, medical staff evaluated him for a potential life-threatening emergency but cleared him to return to his unit after 1.5 hours without hospitalization. He was admitted to Victor Valley Global Medical Center on September 21 for evaluation of an abscess and hypertension, and was pronounced dead early on September 22. His family alleged inadequate medical care during detention, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department initiated an investigation into the cause of death.

Marwan Marouf, a community leader in North Texas who has served the Muslim community for 30 years, was arrested by ICE on September 22, 2025, the same day his green card application was denied. He was transferred to Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson. His green card application denial relied on allegations from over a decade ago. The Muslim Legal Fund of America is challenging the denial in immigration and federal court.

Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old East Bay resident who had lived legally in the United States for 33 years with no criminal record, was detained by ICE for 15 days after a routine check-in on September 8 and deported to India on September 22. During her detention at facilities in Bakersfield and Georgia, Kaur reported being denied basic hygiene supplies, vegetarian meals consistent with her Sikh faith, water to take with her medication, and was forced to sleep on detention cell floors. Her attorney claimed ICE deported her without notice and ignored family requests for a brief release with monitoring or commercial flight accompaniment due to her age and medical conditions.

The Department of Homeland Security subpoenaed activist Sherman Austin and social media accounts associated with Stop ICE, a crowdsourced alert network documenting immigration enforcement activities, after they posted a video of a Border Patrol agent in February 2025. DHS alleged the post constituted doxing and violated officer safety protocols. Austin and civil liberties lawyers representing him argue the information was publicly available and that the post is protected speech under the First Amendment.

A 26-year-old San Jose woman learned of her pregnancy and miscarriage in a Central California immigrant detention facility.

A San Diego family's parents were ordered removed to Mexico on September 22, 2025, after an eight-year legal battle that began with their detention in May 2017. The parents worked as a paletero and had lived in the community for nearly thirty years. Their adult children have organized a fundraiser to support their parents' transition to Mexico.

Mi nombre es Ernesto y estoy recaudando fondos para ayudar a mi papá, Julio Ernesto Chavez Linares, quien fue detenido por inmigración mientras trabajaba el dia 11 de septiembre en un car wash que se llama 100 % hand Wash en Los Angeles California . Él es salvadoreño, nació el 13 de enero de 1983, y siempre ha sido el pilar de nuestra familia, especialmente para mi hermana menor de 12 años. La ausencia de mi papá ha sido muy difícil para nosotros, ya que él se encargaba de la vida diaria de mi hermana, su educación y el bienestar del hogar.

A 26-year-old asylum-seeker from San Jose was detained by ICE after a hearing in San Francisco and held at Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield. While in detention, she discovered she was pregnant but subsequently miscarried. She experienced severe bleeding and cramping but was denied immediate medical care for hours, and when transported to a hospital the next day, she was shackled. She required a blood transfusion and continued experiencing pain and bleeding for over a month after returning to detention.

Congressional candidates Mayor Daniel Biss, Kat Abughazaleh, and Bushra Amiwala were teargassed by ICE agents during a protest at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois. Abughazaleh reported being thrown to the ground, and multiple protesters were struck with pepper balls and teargassed. ICE agents allegedly attempted to run over a peaceful protester with a van and detained at least one protester at the facility.

Paramjit Singh, a green card holder who has lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years and operates a business in Fort Wayne, was detained by ICE and DHS on July 30 at O'Hare. He was held incommunicado for five days before being hospitalized. His family learned of his location when a hospital bill arrived. He remains held at Boone County Jail in Kentucky. According to records, Singh is being detained for a 25-year-old infraction related to a payphone.

Federal immigration agents conducted an operation on Chicago's Southeast Side near 105th Street and Avenue N, pursuing and deliberately ramming a vehicle that resulted in a crash. Two occupants were arrested on allegations of being in the U.S. without legal status. When dozens of neighbors gathered to protest the aggressive enforcement tactics, federal agents deployed tear gas, pepper balls, and smoke grenades as crowd control measures. The response affected residents, children, and at least 13 Chicago police officers, with at least four protesters detained during the incident.

Federal ICE agents used tear gas and pepper balls to disperse approximately 100 protesters outside a Chicago ICE detention facility during a demonstration against immigration enforcement operations. Protesters included a pastor and two Democratic congressional candidates. The protest aimed to block government vehicles from entering the facility. At least three arrests resulted and there were clashes between federal agents and demonstrators. A DHS official defended the ICE officer's use of pepper balls against the pastor.

Federal immigration agents intimidated two women who were documenting their activity on the west side this morning near Grand and Kostner. In a video posted to social media, they say agents boxed their car in a parking lot and surrounded it—but the women themselves never exited their vehicle. Agents threatened the women with arrest, and shined a flashlight into their vehicle.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 state lawmakers were arrested during a civil disobedience protest inside 26 Federal Plaza where ICE maintains holding cells for recently detained immigrants. Federal prosecutors offered to drop obstruction charges if the officials avoided arrest in federal buildings for six months, but Lander rejected the deal while the lawmakers accepted. Lander stated the protest was to draw attention to detention conditions at the ICE facility.

The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit against ICE on September 18, 2025, challenging arrest practices at immigration courts and detention conditions at the ICE field office at 630 Sansome Street in San Francisco. The suit alleges that asylum-seekers are arrested in courthouse hallways and held in inhumane conditions including cold cells with no beds, inadequate hygiene facilities, and limited access to counsel. The lawsuit seeks to nullify ICE memos allowing courthouse arrests and mandate improvements to detention conditions.

Wesley Powers, a U.S. Navy veteran and U.S. citizen, was shot with chemical agent by ICE agents while protesting at Minnesota's Whipple Detention Center in January 2026. He was detained for 9 hours in an overcrowded cell, had his lawyer calls monitored, and was photographed by agents using personal phones before being released without charges. Powers reports subsequent incidents including vehicles at his home and lost work income.

Detainees at the California City ICE Detention Facility reported denied medications, delayed healthcare appointments, and unsafe conditions. Medical staff withheld treatment and medications according to detainee accounts. Some detainees experienced serious health crises including pre-heart attacks and worsening chronic conditions. Civil rights organizations filed a class-action lawsuit.

Estela Ramos Baten, 45, was deported by ICE on July 4 along with her daughter Nory Sontay Ramos. According to her daughter, Ramos Baten's blood pressure medication was not returned during the deportation process. Ramos Baten collapsed and died in Guatemala after the deportation.

Amadou Dia, a Senegalese national who entered the US in 2006 and applied for asylum in 2007, was detained without bond on September 17, 2025 for removal after an immigration judge denied his asylum claim in 2012. ICE initially planned to remove him to Gabon, but when that country refused travel documents, they arranged for his removal to Ghana without allowing him to assert fear-based claims about that country. The court granted a temporary restraining order preventing his removal until he receives a fair hearing.

ICE detention centers are holding thousands more immigrants in solitary confinement than previously reported, with the practice expanding under both the Biden and Trump administrations. Data from Physicians for Human Rights and Harvard University researchers shows vulnerable populations, including those with mental health conditions, are spending an average of over 40 days in solitary confinement. This exceeds the 15-day threshold established by human rights experts. The Trump administration has dramatically increased overall ICE detention capacity while maintaining the expanded use of segregation tactics.

Under Trump administration policies, ICE has increased arrests and hundreds of migrant children are being sent to federal shelters. Some parents face a choice between deporting with their children or facing separation. Sulma Martinez, a 35-year-old from Honduras with a work permit and pending asylum claim, was detained on September 16, 2025.

Three women known as the Baldwin Park 3 were acquitted of charges brought by federal prosecutors, including assault and doxxing charges related to ICE agents. The post claims that evidence presented during the trial, including video footage, contradicted the government's case against the defendants.

Attorneys have documented unsafe conditions for immigrant children at a Texas detention facility.

Joe Botello, a U.S. citizen born in Texas, was handcuffed and detained by federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation in Elgin on September 16, 2025. Agents forcibly entered his home, breaking down doors, and placed him in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle before releasing him after scanning his driver's license. The operation, part of a larger immigration enforcement blitz in the Chicago area, also resulted in the detention of his roommates.

ICE's new detention facility at Fort Bliss in Texas violated 60 federal standards within 50 days of operation. Immigrants arrived at the tent encampment while active construction was still underway, with excavators operating and dust covering the site. The facility was constructed hastily, with development beginning just two weeks before occupancy, and continued for months after people arrived.

A 73-year old East Bay grandmother, Harjit Kaur, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials during a routine check-in this week. Today, her family and an expected 200 community members will stage a protest demanding her release.The protest will be held at 5 p.m. today (Friday, Sept. 12) at the intersection of Appian Way and San Pablo Dam Road in El Sobrante (below the El Sobrante Gurdwara).Kaur has lived in the East Bay for more than 30 years. She currently lives in Hercules but worked for two decades at a small business, Sari Palace, in Berkeley and regularly attended the El Sobrante Sikh Gurdwara. She was detained on Monday after ICE asked her to come to the San Francisco office to turn in additional paperwork. On Tuesday she was taken to a detention center in Bakersfield.“It’s just been a total nightmare. I don’t feel like this is real,” Manji Kaur, Harjit Kaur’s daughter-in-law, told Richmondside. Kaur has two -grandsons and three granddaughters.

Roberto Lacoss, a former lawful permanent resident from the Philippines, was arrested by ICE in Pearl, Mississippi on September 16, 2025, following a criminal conviction for statutory rape. After being ordered removed by an immigration judge, Lacoss complied with the deportation order and departed the United States for the Philippines, with ICE deportation officers present to confirm his departure.

The Trump administration is moving to deport immigrants who are crime victims, rescinding previous protections for this population. A man who nearly died in an Iowa shooting is among those targeted in ICE immigration enforcement actions.

ICE agents encountered a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her family's home in Leominster, Massachusetts while attempting to arrest her father, Edward Hip Mejia, a Guatemalan national. After Mejia fled into his house, agents held the child outside. Local police responded and recovered the girl, returning her to her family. Mejia was detained two days later and is currently held at an ICE detention center in Plymouth.

A single father of six U.S. citizen children applied for a special visa but was deported by ICE. The case involved family ties and legal efforts to prevent deportation.

The government of Ghana announced that 14 West Africans (13 Nigerians and 1 Gambian) who were deported from the US have been sent to their home countries. US lawyers filed a lawsuit arguing the deportations violated immigration protections and that the Trump administration used Ghana as a third country to circumvent US immigration laws.

ICE agents detained at least two Venezuelan men in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood on Monday, including one pulled from his car at 24th and Albany despite claims of legal status. Witnesses say agents hit the car before the man exited, then left his wife and two small children crying in the intersection without providing a warrant or information about his location. The Little Village Community Council, which had distributed whistles during Sunday's Mexican Independence Day parade to alert neighbors of ICE presence, is now working to secure legal representation as detentions increase and fear spreads through the community.

Immigration agents moved a car off the road after breaking its windows and detaining someone on the southwest side. The car was returned to family. Agents abandoned several other vehicles during arrests around Chicago.

Federal immigration agents conducted a raid at a carwash in California. A social media post documented the incident, describing agents detaining workers at the location.

ICE agents raided the Bixby Knolls Car Wash in Long Beach on Saturday, detaining seven workers (four women and three men). The workers, from Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico, had various forms of legal status according to the manager, but agents allegedly confiscated or dismissed their immigration documents. The detained workers have been processed at facilities in Santa Ana, Adelanto, and Los Angeles.

An undocumented father, Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez, was involved in multiple federal immigration enforcement incidents in suburban Chicago. In one incident at a Sam's Club parking lot in Cicero, federal agents pepper-sprayed Villegas-Gonzalez and his 1-year-old daughter at close range, though the U.S. Department of Homeland Security disputed that pepper spray was deployed. Subsequently, Villegas-Gonzalez was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Franklin Park, Illinois during an arrest attempt. DHS stated the agent fired after Villegas-Gonzalez resisted arrest and attempted to drive his car into agents. Villegas-Gonzalez's attorney noted he had no criminal record, only minor traffic violations between 2010 and 2019.

Approximately 1,000 Central American children, including dozens in California, are at risk of deportation before completing immigration court proceedings. The government removed 76 Guatemalan children from shelters over Labor Day weekend and placed them on a plane to Guatemala, but a federal judge blocked the flight. Attorneys report the government is expanding removal efforts to include children from Honduras and El Salvador.

A man was detained by ICE at a Home Depot location in Orange County. He was admitted to Orange County Global Medical Center. He is a stroke patient who has had six prior strokes and takes multiple medications.

ICE agents shot and killed Silverio Villegas González, a 38-year-old Mexican citizen, during a traffic stop in Franklin Park near Chicago. The Department of Homeland Security claimed Villegas González drove his car at officers, but witness videos and security footage show he was driving away from agents when shot. He was pronounced dead at Loyola Hospital after his vehicle crashed into a semitruck.

Omar Salazar, a Dallas community leader and SMU graduate, was detained by ICE for seven months following a traffic stop in Lubbock in August 2025 where he presented a Mexican ID and lacked a valid U.S. driver's license. After losing his immigration case, he was ordered deported to Mexico with 60 days to voluntarily depart. Salazar was brought to the U.S. as a minor at age 11, did not qualify for asylum, and missed DACA eligibility by a few months.

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot and killed by an ICE agent during a traffic stop in Franklin Park on September 12, 2025. The agent claimed Villegas Gonzalez attempted to run him over. Video evidence contradicts this account. Following his death, Idaho authorities took custody of his two young sons. His family is fighting to reunite with the children and demanding an investigation into the fatal shooting.

On September 12, 2025, an ICE officer fatally shot Silverio Villegas González, a Mexican immigrant, during a traffic stop. Body camera footage shows the injured officer telling police his injuries were "nothing major," including a knee injury and hand lacerations. Federal officials stated he was "seriously injured" and dragged by González's vehicle.

On September 12, ICE officers attempted to arrest Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Mexican immigrant, during a traffic stop in Franklin Park, Illinois. After the officers approached his vehicle, Villegas-Gonzalez reversed and then drove forward; an officer fired two shots, striking him in the neck. The vehicle crashed approximately 170 feet away, and Villegas-Gonzalez was pronounced dead at a hospital. Video analysis found no evidence of contact between the vehicle and an officer. An officer sustained injuries including a knee injury and hand lacerations.

A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria Staging Facility in Louisiana examined conditions at the facility, which serves as a hub of Trump's deportation operations and is operated by private company Geo Group. The facility routinely holds detainees longer than its intended 72-hour maximum, with 20% of over 28,000 detainees held there from January-July 2025 exceeding the limit. The investigation documented cases of medical neglect, denial of legal access, and inadequate living conditions, including a waiver of medical screening standards granted before a February 2025 inspection.

ICE agents detained Willian Gimenez in Little Village on September 12 while he entered a barbershop with his wife. ICE refused to disclose his location and denied his attorneys access to him. Gimenez is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Home Depot and off-duty Chicago police for targeting immigrant day laborers.

ICE agents arrested Denis Rivera Martinez, a parent from Honduras, near Talbot Community School in Portland on Thursday morning. The agents did not identify themselves to school staff, wearing only vests marked "police."

Following President Trump's declaration of a "crime emergency" in Washington, D.C., and increased ICE enforcement, immigrant child care workers—who comprise nearly 40 percent of the city's child care workforce—are going into hiding and missing work or avoiding leaving their homes. The Trump administration removed the "sensitive locations" directive that previously protected schools and day cares from ICE raids.

As ICE increases patrols in Washington, D.C., immigrant neighborhoods have organized "walking school buses" where groups of parents escort children to school. The initiative was established in response to Trump administration immigration enforcement targeting residents who entered the country illegally.