Between October 2025 and March 2026, ICE conducted street-based enforcement operations across New York and New Jersey that disproportionately targeted people from Latin America. Since ICE has not released arrest data since October 15, 2025, a local newsroom built its own database using more than 1,200 habeas corpus petitions filed on behalf of detainees, finding that over 93% of those who filed legal challenges were from Latin American countries, despite Latinos comprising only 66% of the region's undocumented immigrant population. Operations concentrated in predominantly Latino neighborhoods including Corona in Queens, Brentwood and Hempstead on Long Island, and Passaic and Plainfield in New Jersey, with detainees reporting agents used Tasers and smashed windows, sometimes admitting they mistook people for other warrant targets before arresting them anyway. This reporting was cited in full in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security alleging constitutional rights violations, and the newsroom has shared its data-collection methodology with outlets in other states.