Overview
- A federal judge in Colorado ruled ICE arrest practices unlawful, ordered bond repayments and ankle monitor removals, and restricted warrantless arrests unless agents document pre-arrest probable cause and flight risk.
- The court certified a class covering people arrested in Colorado since Jan. 20, 2025 under the challenged practices and required ongoing production of probable-cause forms for independent review.
- House Oversight Democrats launched an online dashboard logging 252 verified incidents of possible misconduct and held a Los Angeles field hearing that recorded testimony about alleged unlawful detentions, including of U.S. citizens.
- ICE reports more than 65,000 people in custody as of Nov. 15 with arrests averaging about 1,200 per day, even as internal data show declines in narcotics, firearms and child-exploitation investigations tied to resource shifts.
- DHS highlights recent arrests of offenders convicted of violent crimes and reports a 1,150% rise in assaults on ICE officers, while Border Patrol’s Jeffrey Dinise noted that only about 30 of 360 recent detainees in parts of the Southeast had criminal records.