Human Impact Project

Two Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a VA nurse and observer, in Minneapolis. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino was reassigned to El Centro, California following several high-profile incidents.

Enrique Lozano, an ice cream vendor who has lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years, was detained by ICE agents on June 23, 2025, while working on Culver Boulevard. He was held for approximately four months before being released and granted a green card through his wife's sponsorship. Following his release, Lozano has returned home and resumed his business operations. The local community mobilized support for his family, raising nearly $76,000 through a GoFundMe campaign, while a local company donated a new cart to help him restart his ice cream business.

A 16-year-old immigrant student in the Bronx who was approved for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) and heading toward permanent residency was detained by ICE after appearing for a required check-in. The City of New York joined the student's legal case.

On October 23, 2025, U.S. Border Patrol agents led by Commander Gregory Bovino conducted immigration enforcement operations in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, detaining at least five people including two high school students. One detained student was confirmed to be a U.S. citizen and released to family by 3 p.m. When protesters gathered near the Little Village Discount Mall in response, agents in military-style gear deployed tear gas and pepper spray, with Bovino captured on video tossing a tear gas canister into the crowd, injuring at least one student. Federal Judge Sara Ellis, who had previously issued a court order prohibiting agents from using tear gas without warning, subsequently expanded Bovino's deposition from two hours to five hours to question him about the alleged violation.

Rev. Jorge Bautista, a United Church of Christ pastor, was shot in the face with a pepper round by an ICE agent during an October 23 prayer vigil at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, California. The vigil was organized by the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity to protest ICE operations in the Bay Area. Bautista approached an agent to help deescalate the situation, saying "We come in peace," but was immediately shot with no warning. He received medical treatment and recovered after several days of burning eyes and headaches.

ICE disputed allegations that officers used excessive force against 16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan during the arrest of his father, Arnulfo Bazan Carrillo, on October 23. The teen claimed he was beaten and choked by masked officers who did not identify themselves, but ICE denied these allegations and instead claimed the father rammed a vehicle and both individuals resisted arrest. Bazan was detained for several hours and released after ICE verified he was a U.S. citizen.

Gabriel Garcia Aviles was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol on October 14, 2025, during a roving operation in Costa Mesa and transferred to ICE custody. He was moved to Adelanto ICE Processing Center on October 15 and subsequently hospitalized at Victor Valley Global Medical Center in critical condition. Aviles died on October 23-24, 2025. DHS attributed his condition to suspected alcohol withdrawal symptoms, while his family reported poor communication from detention staff, concerning hospital conditions, and physical injuries including dried blood, cuts, broken teeth, and bruising. Aviles had lived in the United States for over 30 years and held a work permit.

Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh was indicted along with five other protesters for allegedly blocking vehicles outside a federal ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Abughazaleh faces charges of conspiracy and forcibly impeding a federal officer. She and other defendants will self-surrender to authorities following the indictment filed on October 23.

Community activists across Orange County are organizing to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their neighborhoods and live-stream their findings on social media. Led by organizers like Victor Valladares, these groups receive reports of suspected ICE activity, dispatch volunteers to verify sightings, and share real-time information with the community.

ICE agents engaged in an hours-long standoff with Honduran immigrant William Hernandez outside his home in Avondale, Arizona, following a car incident. ICE claims Hernandez rammed an agent's vehicle, while witnesses and his wife report that ICE agents rammed his car. Hernandez, who has lived in the U.S. for a decade with no criminal record, was detained along with his uncle Abel Ochoa and another family member Marcos Ochoa.

A driver in a blue GMC pickup truck allegedly attempted to ram a Customs and Border Protection vehicle carrying federal immigration agents in Cicero on Wednesday morning. The truck instead struck a gray Toyota Corolla at an intersection. No injuries were reported, and the driver was taken into federal custody.

Illinois State Representative Hoan Huynh, a Vietnamese refugee and congressional candidate, reported an encounter with federal agents on October 22, 2025, near Montrose and Kimball avenues in Albany Park on Chicago's Northwest Side. Huynh stated he was in the area to warn residents of their rights following ICE enforcement activity when Customs and Border Patrol agents surrounded his vehicle. According to Huynh, an agent pointed a gun at him and threatened to break his car windows before lowering the weapon when he began recording. DHS stated Huynh was stopped twice for stalking law enforcement and attempting to interfere with operations. The incident also occurred amid reports of a vendor employee being detained by federal agents outside a Rogers Park school.

Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a 44-year-old TikTok streamer with over 340,000 followers who documented ICE enforcement activities in South Los Angeles, was shot by federal agents on October 22, 2025, during an immigration enforcement operation near Santee High School. Video evidence captured 11 shots fired as Parias' vehicle was boxed in by law enforcement vehicles. Parias was wounded in the arm and hospitalized. A deputy U.S. marshal was injured by a ricochet bullet during the incident. Parias, described as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was detained and charged with assault on a federal officer.

Irma was detained by ICE on October 21, 2025, during a routine immigration appointment in Santa Ana, California. Her citizenship case was denied and she was taken into custody immediately. She was scheduled to be deported to Mexico on October 22, 2025, leaving behind her four children and life in the United States.

ICE and federal agents conducted an operation on Canal Street in Manhattan on October 22, 2025, detaining nine undocumented immigrants who were street vendors. The raid came days after a right-wing media figure posted a video about the area. Federal authorities described the operation as targeting counterfeit goods trafficking, but civil rights attorneys characterized it as a pretextual show of force using profiling tactics. During the operation, two men initially detained were released after identifying themselves as U.S. citizens. Hundreds of New Yorkers protested the raid, with five protesters arrested during the confrontation.

A Venezuelan family seeking asylum in the United States self-deported after the father and 20-year-old son Anderson Contreras-Hernandez were detained by ICE. The family had fled Venezuela due to gang extortion and sought better medical care for two sons with sickle cell disease. After months in detention and legal proceedings, the family chose to return to Venezuela.

A woman identified as Alicia experienced severe abdominal pain, cramping, and vaginal bleeding while in ICE custody. Medical staff performed invasive procedures without consent and she was told she had miscarried, then returned to detention. She was denied follow-up medical care for over two months despite continued bleeding and severe pain. After deportation, she was diagnosed with a serious infection caused by lack of treatment during detention.

Four U.S. citizens were arrested and held for nearly 24 hours without federal charges during an ICE enforcement operation on Canal Street in New York City's Chinatown on Tuesday. The operation also resulted in the detention of nine undocumented immigrants. All four American citizens were released without charges after a congressman's press conference announced the arrests, and their families had filed missing persons reports.

ICE agents were conducting operations in Santa Ana near Birch Street and Andrew Place early in the morning. Community watchers and legal observers responded to monitor the incident. An ICE agent pepper sprayed the area despite no one being near, and later remotely disabled a legal observer's vehicle engine while stopped at a red light on Main Street and Edinger Avenue.

ICE agents shot 25-year-old U.S. citizen Carlos Jimenez in the Los Angeles area as he attempted to warn officers that children would soon arrive at a school bus stop where they had pulled over a vehicle. Jimenez was shot while trying to leave the scene and reversed his car in panic; a bullet remains lodged in his right shoulder. He was arrested and accused of assaulting an officer, an accusation his legal team denies.

ICE detained numerous asylum-seekers and migrants at the San Diego federal courthouse basement after summoning them for routine check-ins between October 9-21, 2025. Detainees reported being held in crowded cells for up to four days in conditions they described as inadequate, including limited bedding, no privacy for bathroom use, cold temperatures, and lack of medical attention. Some were subsequently deported or transferred to other detention facilities without proper legal proceedings.

A pregnant woman in Berwyn, Illinois was confronted by an ICE agent who pointed a gun at her car window while she was honking her horn to alert people to the presence of ICE officers conducting an enforcement operation. The woman, Lesly Guevara, said she was attempting to warn her community about the agents' presence. A DHS spokesperson stated the agent acted to protect himself and showed restraint, and characterized Guevara's actions as aggressive and threatening.

An employee of a Chicago Public Schools vendor was taken into custody by federal immigration agents outside Decatur Classical School on the Far North Side. School officials stated no students witnessed the incident and emphasized that CPS will not cooperate with federal agents without a criminal judicial warrant.

Federal immigration officers shot a man in the elbow after he rammed their vehicle during an enforcement operation in Los Angeles. A deputy U.S. Marshal was struck in the hand by a ricochet bullet during the incident. The suspect was apprehended following the encounter.

2 hurt, including a US Marshal, after an ICE agent’s weapon discharged in LA immigration operation

Yassine Halhoul, a 21-year-old University of Arizona aerospace engineering student from Morocco, was detained by Homeland Security Investigations on October 21, 2025, due to a clerical visa issue. He spent approximately one month in ICE detention at Florence Correctional Center and Eloy Detention Center, where he reported poor conditions including inadequate food, interference with sleep, and frequent cell counts. After a GoFundMe campaign raised $18,500 for bail and legal expenses, Halhoul was released on November 13, 2025, with an ankle monitor.

21-year-old Judas Rivera, who immigrated to Arizona as a child, was detained by ICE agents on October 21, 2025, while traveling to work at Chick-fil-A. ICE initially and erroneously recorded his country of origin as Afghanistan instead of Mexico, a discrepancy only corrected after media inquiry. Rivera is currently held at the Eloy Detention Center awaiting a court hearing scheduled for November 7, 2025, that will determine his deportation status.

As protests continue outside the ICE facility in South Portland, Oregon, residents and local leaders are reporting health impacts from federal agents' use of tear gas and other chemical crowd control munitions. Area residents report symptoms including nausea, headaches, and respiratory issues. State lawmakers have expressed concerns about documented health effects including chemical burns and respiratory failure. Federal agents have deployed tear gas multiple times over recent weeks, with chemicals seeping into nearby apartments and affecting residents regardless of protest participation.

ICE and FBI agents conducted a coordinated raid on La Catedral Arena racetrack in Wilder, Idaho on October 19, 2025, detaining 105 immigrants as part of an FBI-led investigation into illegal gambling operations. The operation involved hundreds of law enforcement officers and resulted in family separations, with officers detaining children separately from parents and restraining minors, including at least three people lawfully in the U.S. Witnesses reported the use of rubber bullets against crowds. According to attorneys, at least two immigrants who had overstayed visas were told they could face decades of imprisonment and were denied contact with family or attorneys until they agreed to deportation. Five people, including the track owner, were charged with felony counts related to illegal gambling. Those detained filed habeas corpus petitions challenging their detention.

Nayra Guzmán, a 22-year-old Mexican immigrant with pending asylum and visa applications, was detained by ICE on October 20, 2025, just 15 days after giving birth via C-section. Her newborn daughter was in the NICU at the time of her arrest. During her approximately 34-hour detention, Guzmán was held in overcrowded conditions without adequate medical care, blankets, or food and water, despite being in severe postpartum pain and developing a breast infection.

Quinn Haberl, a blind protester, said federal agents at Portland's ICE facility dragged and handcuffed him twice during separate protest incidents. The first incident occurred Tuesday night when agents picked him up and dropped him on the ground. During the second incident on Saturday, agents dragged him across the driveway and held him for about an hour with pressure applied to his back and neck. Haberl was taken to the hospital where doctors documented bruising on his shoulders, hands, and arms.

Federal agents conducted an ICE raid at La Catedral Arena horse track in Wilder on Sunday, resulting in 105 undocumented people being arrested. The operation involved approximately 200 agents from multiple federal and local agencies and was connected to an FBI investigation into illegal gambling, with four people arrested on gambling charges. Witnesses reported chaotic scenes with children separated from parents in custody during the operation.

An Oak Park civil litigation attorney was arrested by ICE agents outside his child's elementary school on Monday morning. The attorney was detained after following an ICE van and honking his horn and blowing a whistle, which he said was to identify the unmarked vehicle. He was charged with impeding federal agents and held for approximately one hour before being released near the school.

Multiple pregnant women have been detained by ICE and face deportation. Leonela Liliana Gomez Hernandez, a 27-year-old in her eighth month of pregnancy, was detained while traveling to a prenatal appointment in Los Angeles and deported to Nicaragua within days. Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, a 25-year-old Honduran mother of two American-born children, was detained on January 1, 2026, and transferred to a Louisiana facility where she experienced heavy bleeding and cramps and received one emergency room visit for medical attention.

Immigrant detainees at ICE detention facilities in Louisiana report going hungry and being served poor quality, processed foods that are often expired or undercooked. The Richwood facility, which holds nearly 750 women, has seen changes in food quality as detainee populations increase and the facility switched to a lower-cost food distributor. ICE officials claim detainees receive proper meals meeting nutritional standards. Advocates say the conditions involve underfeeding.

Ruperto Vicens Marquez, head chef at Emilio's Kitchen in Atlantic Highlands, was detained by ICE on October 19, 2025. According to ICE, Marquez is from Mexico and has a final removal order, though his lawyer disputes this claim and states he has a pending merits hearing scheduled for 2028. Marquez has valid work authorization through 2029 according to Atlantic Highlands Mayor Lori Hohenleitner, and his wife and three children remain in the U.S. A protest was held in support of Marquez, and a GoFundMe campaign has raised $85,000 to cover legal fees.

A 42-year-old San Francisco tenant from Russia who fled political persecution is in federal immigration custody and faces eviction by his landlord due to his inability to appear in court. He is scheduled to lose his housing on Monday at a McCallister Street eviction hearing. ICE has not responded to requests about whether they would allow the man to appear virtually.

Kevin Larson, a 68-year-old Canadian retiree with no criminal record, was stopped at the Blue Water Bridge on October 18, 2025, while attempting to enter Michigan to attend a No Kings protest against Trump's policies. After three hours of questioning, fingerprinting, a phone search, and a DNA cheek swab collected under threat of jail time, Larson was denied entry and returned to Canada. Border agents told him he was turned away due to the nature of his planned protest activity.

David Huerta, a Southern California labor union leader, had his felony obstruction charge reduced to a misdemeanor following his arrest while protesting an immigration raid. Court records show the charge reduction was approved.

Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testified in federal court that on October 18, federal officers accidentally escalated a No Kings protest at an ICE facility when one officer misfired a tear gas launcher, sending a canister onto the roof where other federal officers were stationed. The officers on the roof mistook the friendly fire for an attack by protesters and retaliated by firing tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd, injuring local law enforcement in the process.

A Pennsylvania man exonerated after spending over 40 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit was immediately taken into ICE custody upon his release, with authorities seeking to deport him to India based on a 1988 deportation order. Subu Vedam, who moved to the US at nine months old, was cleared of the 1980 murder charge earlier this month, but ICE cited his old drug conviction and deportation order as grounds for detention. His family and lawyers are fighting the deportation, arguing that Vedam has virtually no ties to India, had applied for US citizenship before his arrest, and demonstrated decades of good behavior in prison where he earned three degrees and mentored fellow inmates.

Ali Faqirzada, an Afghan refugee and Bard College student, was detained by ICE following a credible fear interview in his asylum case. He was held for six months before being released and reunited with his family in New Paltz.

Alexa Ramírez was deported to Mexico in October 2025 after being arrested during Operation Midway Blitz, while her husband Alexander Villeda remains detained in Michigan. The couple was arrested eight days after getting married at the Swap-O-Rama market in Chicago. Ramírez is in her hometown in Oaxaca and Villeda is fighting his immigration case from detention in Michigan.

Ihsanullah Garay, a 38-year-old Afghan asylum seeker with stage II brain cancer, was detained by ICE in Methuen on September 14 after a chance encounter revealed his student visa had expired. Despite having work authorization through 2029, no criminal record, and an ongoing asylum claim, Garay was arrested and subsequently transferred to a detention facility in Georgia, preventing him from attending critical medical appointments at Boston Medical Center. His condition has deteriorated significantly in custody, and he now requires a wheelchair and experiences daily seizures.

On October 16, 2025, Leonardo Martinez, a US citizen volunteer with VC Defensa immigrant rights group, was monitoring ICE enforcement activity in Oxnard, California when federal immigration agents in an unmarked SUV rammed his pickup truck, injuring him. Agents then falsely told dispatchers and investigating officers that Martinez had hit them. Body camera footage from Oxnard Police and witness videos contradicted the federal agents' accounts. Martinez was arrested and taken to Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, where he was detained but released the same day. He was informed he faced charges but has not been formally charged in any jurisdiction.

Robby Roadsteamer, a comedian and activist, was shot with pepper-spray balls by ICE officers on a rooftop and then detained at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon while dressed as a giraffe and singing modified protest songs. He was cited for failing to comply with orders and trespassing, and plans to sue ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

On October 16, 2025, a collision occurred between an ICE vehicle and a truck driven by Leo Martinez, a volunteer with immigrant rights group VC Defensa, during an enforcement operation near 8th and A streets in Oxnard. ICE agents initially told police that Martinez's truck rammed their vehicle, but video footage released by VC Defensa showed an ICE Jeep striking Martinez's Nissan truck. Martinez was arrested by federal agents at the scene and taken to a federal facility in Los Angeles, where he was released the same day. The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to pursue charges.

Eduardo Aguilar, a 23-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was federally charged for making threats against ICE agents on social media. Aguilar allegedly posted in Spanish calling for armed individuals and offering money for each ICE agent killed. He appeared before a federal judge in Dallas who ordered him held in federal custody pending trial.

Queer and trans immigrants detained at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center alleged they were forced into an unsanctioned work program performing hard manual labor for minimal pay, and sexually harassed and assaulted by an assistant warden named Manuel Reyes between 2023 and 2025. Detainees reported facing medical neglect, retaliation for reporting abuse, and having their complaints systematically ignored by ICE officials. Four detainees filed administrative complaints under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and civil rights complaints were submitted to DHS oversight bodies by RFK Human Rights, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the National Immigration Project.

Hector Esteban Justo was re-detained by immigration authorities on October 15, 2025, after previously being released on bond or conditional parole. He filed a habeas corpus petition challenging his ongoing immigration detention, arguing that he was denied a constitutionally required pre-deprivation bond hearing before a neutral arbiter. The court granted his petition and ordered his immediate release with the same conditions he had prior to detention.