Overview
- Eyewitness videos from Oct. 19 in Santa Ana show agents conducting detentions near a recycling center, and DHS had not provided details on the operation or arrest totals at the time of reporting.
- On Oct. 15 in Portland, agents entered the wrong apartment while searching for a fugitive and detained two Mexican migrants with no criminal records as DHS said the action relied on credible information disputed by the family.
- A recent Idaho Falls operation detained at least 50 people during a public horse-racing event using unmarked vehicles, with four facing immigration charges and the rest transferred to federal detention centers.
- ICE has expanded enforcement nationwide with surprise actions in public spaces and workplaces to execute existing removal orders and accelerate deportations, increasingly involving people without criminal histories.
- TRAC analysis indicates most active operations cluster in Texas, Arizona, and California, while Idaho’s new Operation No Return enables direct local-to-ICE transfers without a judicial order, drawing civil-liberties warnings from the ACLU.