ICE Arrest Quotas and Surveillance Use in Oregon Raids Revealed in Court Testimony
Oct 10, 2026·Location: OR

Federal court testimony reported by EL PAÍS revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operated under numerical arrest quotas during immigration raids in Oregon and used surveillance technology to identify, track, or locate people for arrest. The sworn statements, entered into the public record during a federal proceeding, are described as a rare disclosure of internal ICE enforcement practices that are typically kept within internal training or oversight channels. The surveillance tools used across ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations include cellphone location data, license-plate readers, facial recognition searches, social media monitoring, and drones, though the testimony did not specify which tools were tied to the Oregon operations.
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