U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The Department of Homeland Security reported that the population of detainees held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached nearly 66,000 in 2025.

Zohran Mamdani's stated mayoral policy is that the New York Police Department (NYPD) will deliver public safety and will not assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in immigration arrests.

Donald Trump supports federal immigration enforcement actions by ICE to arrest and remove individuals described as known murderers and known drug dealers as a measure to enhance public safety.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) co-lead a cluster of joint task forces that are intended to have operational outposts in all 50 U.S. states.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has statutory authority under federal law to detain, apprehend, and take into custody undocumented immigrants.

U.S. immigration detention counts reached all-time highs above 60,000 in 2025.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have authority to take custody of individuals during community safety or immigration enforcement operations.

Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter formal agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies to enable those agencies to perform certain immigration enforcement functions.

Members of the U.S. National Guard, when deployed domestically in a federal capacity, are not intended to perform law enforcement roles and can be tasked to protect federal facilities, including facilities run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carry out immigration enforcement activities that can include stopping vehicles, detaining individuals, and making arrests.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may designate detained individuals as "high public safety risk" based on alleged criminal histories, including charges such as aggravated assault, aggravated DUI, domestic battery, and kidnapping.

In 2025, ICE licensed software that provides access to large amounts of location-based data for use in identifying or monitoring individuals.

In 2025, ICE expanded social-media surveillance by contracting AI-driven software and considering hiring around-the-clock contractor teams to scour databases and platforms such as Facebook and TikTok to compile dossiers on users.

By 2025-11-05, Operation Midway Blitz had resulted in more than 3,000 immigration arrests in the Chicago area since early September 2025.

In 2025 in the Chicago area, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations have included tactics such as rappelling from Black Hawk helicopters, deploying large tactical teams in public or recreational areas, and using tear gas.

ICE personnel have been observed wearing clothing or vests labeled 'ICE' to identify themselves during enforcement operations.

Advocates and civil-rights attorneys have alleged that detainees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities have been denied access to food, water, and medical care, denied private phone calls with attorneys, and coerced into signing legal paperwork that can lead to relinquishment of rights.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported in 2025 an 8,000% increase in death threats targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Federal judges can issue orders directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to retain or not remove an individual from the United States so that the individual can present a claim of U.S. citizenship.

Deaths and serious injuries have occurred during U.S. immigration enforcement operations, including incidents in which individuals fleeing agents ran onto roadways and were struck by vehicles.

Discrepancies between initial official accounts and later evidence (for example, police body-camera footage) have occurred in some immigration enforcement incidents and have prompted protests, lawsuits, and calls for further investigation.

The Shane Jones Act proposal would impose financial penalties on law enforcement agencies that refuse to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

U.S. federal immigration enforcement is carried out by agencies including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and state National Guard units have at times been used to support immigration-related operations.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is commonly abbreviated as ICE.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security oversees U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the U.S. Coast Guard.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducts targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operations focused on criminal activity related to the sale of counterfeit goods.

A 2025 Department of Homeland Security statement reported an approximately 8,000% increase in death threats against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Federal immigration enforcement operations can involve multiple agencies collaborating, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement working alongside U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

In 2025, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Public Affairs stated that drawing a weapon can be used as a de-escalation tactic by ICE officers.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates immigrant processing centers and other enforcement facilities in U.S. cities.

In 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ran television recruitment advertisements in multiple U.S. metropolitan areas aimed at recruiting local law enforcement officers to join its immigration enforcement efforts.

In 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiated a $30 billion hiring initiative intended to add 10,000 deportation officers by the end of 2025.

In 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offered recruitment incentives for new deportation officer hires, including bonuses of up to $50,000 and tuition reimbursement.

There is no standard definition of a 'sanctuary jurisdiction'; the term generally refers to U.S. cities or states that limit their cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigration enforcement.

In 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a $30 billion initiative to hire approximately 10,000 additional deportation officers.

In 2025, U.S. federal law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security reported that Mexican criminal organizations allegedly offered cash bounties targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel, reportedly offering about $2,000 for gathering intelligence or doxxing agents, $5,000–$10,000 for kidnapping or non-lethal assaults on standard immigration officers, and up to $50,000 for assassinating high-ranking officials.

Federal authorities can activate (federalize) National Guard members to protect federal property and federal employees, including agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Federal Protective Service, during violent demonstrations.

California has state laws commonly referred to as 'sanctuary' policies that limit local and state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and restrict honoring ICE detainer requests.

In 2024, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began deploying about 1,600 body-worn cameras to agents assigned to Enforcement and Removal Operations, with cameras provided to agents working in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Buffalo, New York City, and Detroit.

Joint task forces co-led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are organized with a mandate to combat cartels, international gangs, and terrorist groups and are planned to have outposts in all 50 U.S. states.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been associated with an administration goal of achieving 3,000 arrests per day and one million deportations per year.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal agency within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for immigration enforcement, detention, and removal operations in the United States.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the federal agency responsible for apprehending and detaining people suspected of being undocumented immigrants in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) includes agencies such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that conduct federal immigration enforcement activities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Operation Midway Blitz is an enforcement operation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that the Department of Homeland Security describes as aimed at protecting American communities from crime the agencies associate with sanctuary policies.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) conduct enforcement operations that target noncitizens with criminal convictions, including offenses such as drug trafficking, unlawful re-entry, driving under the influence, and violent offenses.

ICE is an acronym for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE is an abbreviation for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency involved in immigration enforcement.

Operation Midway Blitz is a named federal immigration enforcement operation that targets undocumented immigrants residing in Illinois.

Operation Midway Blitz is a joint immigration enforcement campaign conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol aimed at apprehending criminal noncitizens and fugitives with prior deportation orders.

The 287(g) program allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enter agreements with local law enforcement agencies that enable those agencies to perform immigration enforcement activities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offers federal funding to local law enforcement agencies to partner in federal immigration enforcement programs, sometimes involving multi-million-dollar amounts.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can lodge immigration detainers against noncitizens following arrests by state or local law enforcement.

Investigators have tracked threatening phone calls and social media posts that target immigration enforcement officers and their families across multiple U.S. states (for example, Texas and Washington).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy prohibits agents from intentionally targeting the head, neck, groin, or female breast and prohibits firing at anyone above the waist when using less-lethal munitions.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement maintains internal investigations into alleged use-of-force misconduct by its personnel.