Overview

• ICE agents detained more than a dozen migrants outside a Chicago ISAP office by summoning them via text for routine check-ins and escorting them into vans, drawing aldermen who tried to block the operation.
• Chicago police provided only crowd control under the city’s Welcoming City Ordinance and did not participate in the federal immigration action.
• In lower Manhattan, federal agents arrested multiple migrants immediately after they completed mandatory check-ins at an ISAP office, leaving families distraught and city officials condemning the tactics.
• Those taken into custody included individuals with executable removal orders and participants in ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program who had consistently complied with release conditions.
• The operations are a coordinated effort by ICE, CBP and USCIS to meet a Trump administration target of 3,000 daily arrests, fueling legal and ethical concerns among elected officials and immigrant advocates.