#immigration-enforcement

#immigration-enforcement

Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed Swamp Sweep that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. The deployment, which is expected to begin in earnest on Dec. 1, marks the latest escalation in a series of rapid-fire immigration crackdowns unfolding nationwide

The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of a busy D.C. street. A 70-year-old protester in Chicago is pushed to the ground by an armed Border Patrol agent holding a riot gun. In Los Angeles, an agent shoves away a demonstrator. These videos capture the aggressive tactics of immigration officers under the second Trump administration. But they share something else, too. In each instance, following documented violence by federal officers toward protesters and immigrants, the Justice Department pressed charges-against the victim of that violence.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, declined to discuss Border Patrol's plans. "Every day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country. We do not discuss future or potential operations," McLaughlin said in a statement.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued California on Monday to block newly passed laws that prohibit law enforcement officials, including federal immigration agents, from wearing masks and that require them to identify themselves. The laws, passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, came in the wake of the Trump administration's immigration raids in California, when masked, unidentified federal officers jumped out of vehicles this summer as part of the president's mass deportation program.

Millions of Americans who might have managed to get through the first ten months of this administration unscathed are now finding that they are not immune from this president's prioritization of power over people. Every day I hear from more friends whose healthcare premiums are skyrocketing to unaffordable heights. Federal workers have been without pay throughout the long government shutdown. Bay Area companies are announcing huge layoffs.

Driving the news: The enhanced operation has caused "unnecessary fear and uncertainty," local officials said in a statement, pointing to operations in other cities that resulted in people without criminal records being detained and clashes between protesters and agents. City leaders implored dissenters to speak out peacefully, saying, "We can stand up for what we believe in without resorting to violence."

New Yorkers sent a resounding message on Election Day: they want a city that fights back against President Trump and protects all New Yorkers, including our immigrant neighbors. Since Trump took office in January, New Yorkers have seen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramp up its operations , disappearing our loved ones and engaging in brutal deportation tactics at federal immigration court , at workplaces and in homes.

The new measures stop short of what is required, shadow home secretary Chris Philp said. The Government trumpet their removal numbers. But only a tiny fraction of these crossed by small boat, amounting to just 5 per cent of small boat arrivals in that time. And 83 per cent of the numbers returned were voluntary. Whilst some of these new measures are welcome, they stop well short of what is really required and some are just yet more gimmicks like the previous smash the gangs' gimmick.

There is no company in the U.S. that has become more closely associated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids than Home Depot Inc. In and around the retailer's parking lots, masked and armed ICE agents chase and tackle and detain the day laborers who gather there to look for work. Store employees who are upset by witnessing the grim scenes are allowed to go home for the day with pay a tacit acknowledgment by Home Depot that the raids are violent and traumatic to watch.

Ingraham argued that visas would make it harder for Trump to achieve his goal of raising wages for US workers. You also do have to bring in talent, Trump countered. When Ingraham said the US already had plenty of talented people here, Trump responded no. You don't have certain talents. And you have to, people have to learn. You can't take people off, like an unemployment line, and say, I'm going to put you into a factory. We're going to make missiles,' he said.

A leading Muslim civil rights group in the US applauded Monday as the Trump administration's agreement to release British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi acknowledged that he is not "a danger to the community or to national security," after he was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for more than two weeks. Hamdi's family and the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been representing the journalist, expressed relief

Jose Bertin Cruz-Estrada was responding to a wildfire in Washington state on 27 August when four unmarked vehicles drove up to his crew's remote location in a national forest. Cruz-Estrada, part of a team of 20 Oregon-based firefighters, had spent a week hiking through dense terrain, battling smoke and clearing fallen trees and other debris to prevent the Bear Gulch fire, a 9,000-acre blaze, from growing.

A few days after President Donald Trump took office, I got an invitation from ICE officials to observe the administration's new "surge operations" in New York City. They told me to show up at 4 a.m. at the downtown federal building where the agency has its holding cells. Officers in body armor huddled in the basement parking garage, then headed to the Bronx in a caravan of unmarked cars.

An undisclosed number of federal agents appeared in Fremont on Saturday to knock on doors and seek voluntary cooperation with specific individuals, Fremont officials said. Sometime Saturday morning, federal agents dropped into the city and by early afternoon they had allegedly left the city, according to Fremont spokeswoman Geneva Bosques. She said it was unclear from which agency the agents were from, how many there were, or where they were conducting their work.

Donald Trump is supposed to be the guy that's concerned about crime In every FBI field office and we just got this 25-45% of the agents that used to work on counterrorism, cyber-crime, counter-espionage, they've all been taken off those duties and assigned to immigration. HOLY COW: Sen. Mark Warner just revealed Trump's DOJ pulled up to 45% of FBI agents off counter-terrorism and CHILD RAPE AND EXPLOITATION cases to reassign them to immigration. Trump's priorities aren't America First. They're predators first.

"We have all seen the power of parents connecting together to care for everyone's children and to keep each other safe," the group says in a statement on Instagram. "We know that community is the key to holding our government agencies accountable for their actions. We cannot continue to let our government traumatize children, neighbors, teachers, laborers, and anyone else in our community who is now on constant high alert."

The lawyers say the initiative by the Trump administration, which was seemingly paused in August but could start up again in the future, denied due process: Immigrants with long-paused cases can be hard to track down, and attorneys have not always been informed of the motions in time to challenge them in court. The old cases involve many who sought visas based on a special status: one for juveniles abandoned or abused and the second specifically for crime victims.

Ever since the Trump immigration raids began in Los Angeles in June, local leaders and community activists have criticized agents for sometimes making it difficult to identify them as federal law enforcement officials or refusing to identify themselves at all. Now, an unexpected new group has expressed its own concerns: the FBI. Citing a string of incidents in which masked criminals posing as immigration officers robbed and kidnapped victims, the FBI recently issued a memo suggesting agents clearly identify themselves while they're in the field.

On October 23, 2025, a large vigil and protest against a planned federal immigration crackdown took place at the entrance to Coast Guard Island in Alameda. Demonstrators gathered to oppose the deployment of federal agents, and the protest involved clashes with law enforcement, the use of tear gas and stun grenades, and at least two arrests. The event was part of a broader day of activism against the Trump administration's planned immigration operations in the Bay Area.