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.
Videos shared with The Times and on , show agents in unmarked vehicles, donning green vests and equipped with white zip ties in parking lot 13, next to the Frank Hotchkin Memorial Training Center, which is used by the Los Angeles Fire Department. Eyewitnesses on the ground told The Times they estimated there were about 100 agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, along with a special tactical unit with CBP. The agents left shortly before 10 a.m.
"I refused to go largely in solidarity with the countries who Trump targeted for visa exclusions," said Murakami Wood, a criminology professor at the University of Ottawa. "This time ... it's even worse. It's not specific countries [being targeted], but we're seeing people being arbitrarily arrested and taken off the streets, deportations, people being arrested in transit."
Carmen's abusive husband came home drunk one night last summer. He pounded and kicked the door. He threatened to kill her as her young son watched in horror. She called police, eventually obtaining a restraining order. Months later he returned and beat her again. Police came again and he was eventually deported. Thinking she finally escaped his cruelty, Carmen applied for what is known as a U-Visa.
But if successful they could also fulfill a long-running administration goal of employing America's military to aid in the mass deportation of immigrants without legal status, according to an NPR review of past comments from Trump and his allies. It's a move that would stray significantly from past federal use of the Guard, challenging laws that dictate how the U.S. military can be used domestically.
An officer was speaking to the three occupants of the Honda on the car's driver's side when Jimenez pulled up in his Lexus RX350, also on the driver's side where the officer was, the complaint states. That's when Jimenez engaged in a verbal altercation with the officers at the vehicle stop, and another officer approached with his firearm and told Jimenez to leave, before holstering his firearm and taking out his pepper spray, according to the complaint.
The current official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity, said 12 ICE field office directors - the officers who run the network of field offices around the country responsible for immigration enforcement - were being reassigned. Half are to be replaced by existing or retired Customs and Border Protection staff, while the other half would be replaced by ICE officers, both the current and former officials said.
If all goes well, this will be the last time I am the news and you can instead count on me to bring you some uncompromising journalism as the latest addition to the Mercury's news team. You may be familiar with my work at Street Roots, where I worked as a staff reporter for the past few years. I'll say, despite the risk of turning this into a cover letter, I learned a lot about reporting on housing and homelessness there,
