Overview

• ICE operations now stretch across Chicago and multiple California sites, producing record arrest figures in shelters, clinics and other community centers.
• Federal agents have carried out unannounced raids in churches, schools, courthouses and workplaces since the sensitive-locations memo was revoked.
• Widespread fear is driving migrants away from shelters, hospitals and fields, causing service use to plummet and agricultural labor shortages amid extreme heat.
• Grassroots actions, including a Downey clinic driver blocking ICE vehicles until a warrant was shown, signal rising local defiance to enforcement tactics.
• The Department of Homeland Security insists detentions are based solely on illegal status, but civil rights groups argue the tactics amount to racial discrimination.