Overview

• Plainclothes ICE agents are waiting outside immigration courthouses in Los Angeles and Phoenix to detain migrants immediately after judges dismiss their cases.
• They employ surveillance tactics such as binoculars, walkie-talkies and unmarked vans to follow migrants to parking lots and streets before making arrests.
• DHS has broadened expedited removal to quicken deportations by bypassing traditional court procedures.
• Private security firm G4S is being used to transport detainees from courthouse sites to detention facilities.
• Immigrant advocates have established rapid-response networks and filed legal challenges to contest tactics they say punish people for following court orders.