Excessive Use of Force by ICE\CBP Tracker

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121 Excessive Uses of Force by ICE\CBP Agents
  • Teenage son
    Minneapolis area ICE facility
    Jan 29, 2026
    A teenager named Anthony was trying to get needed, live saving heart medication to his detained 58-year-old father and was cruelly laughed at by ICE agents instead. According to Anthony, "I gave an ICE agent my dad's medicine, but I'm not sure if he got it because the ice agent just smirked at me. He laughed in my face." He had to return with lawyers and medical professionals to ensure his father received the medication.
  • Francisco Chan Reyes
    San Antonio, TX
    Jan 28, 2026
    Francisco Chan Reyes was racially profiled by ICE agents who swarmed his vehicle, immediately smashed his window without any warning, pepper sprayed him and handcuffed him face down in the pavement suffering a head injury and burns. One agent laughed as he withered in pain. He was detained for hours as his valid paperwork and work permit were falsely called into question.
  • Christian Salamanca
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    St Paul, MN
    Jan 26, 2026
    Christian Salamanca was rammed into a pole by ICE goons while pulling over in a community parking lot due to their overly aggressive and reckless driving. He required hospitalized with multiple broken bones and targeted despite having a US work permit, no criminal history and pending asylum case.
  • Alex Jeffrey Pretti
    37-year-old peaceful observer
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 24, 2026
    U.S. citizen Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot ten times at point blank range by an ICE agent killing him despite posing no threat and exerting no resistance.
    • An agent escalates the situation by oddly yelling "He has a gun!" which is legal in Minnesota. That legally permitted handgun was taken from him beforehand clearly in view of the person who shot him. video
    • Before he was murdered, Alex was trying to help a woman they just shoved. Despite not posing a threat, he was shoved to the ground and pepper sprayed in the face and roughed up by several agents.video
    • A physician witnessed the murder of Alex Pretti from his apartment window and gave testimony on what he saw. When he arrived, he noticed ICE agents just stood around "counting his bullet wounds" so he performed standard practices including checking for a pulse, moving him on his back, and doing CPR. During this, he noticed "at least 3 bullet wounds in his back" and two in the front.article
    • One agent was observed clapping seemingly actually celebrating after the man was shot and later mockingly said to people protesting his death, "boo hoo."article
  • 5-year-old autistic girl
    Massachusetts
    Jan 23, 2026
    A 5-year-old autistic girl was surrounded and detained by ICE goons without a warrant using her as bait to target her parents. When the mother said, "Give me my daughter back "an agent responded, "Nope, you’re going to have to come out here and get her." The child experienced high anxiety from the incident that required therapy.
  • Children attending school
    Asylum Applicant
    Minnesota
    Jan 22, 2026
    Children going to school in Minnesota were targeted by ICE agents despite having legal authority to stay verified by the school superintendent. A 5-year-old used as bait. A 10-year-old and her mother sent to a facility in Texas the same day. A 17-year-old yanked from his car alone.
  • ChongLy Scott Thao
    Grandfather
    U.S. Citizen
    St Paul, MN
    Jan 19, 2026
    56-year-old U.S. citizen ChongLy Scott Thao had his front door broken down without a warrant by ICE agents with guns drawn merely because he resembled someone they were looking for.
    • His 4-year-old grandson was sleeping in a room nearby
    • He was handcuffed and escorted bare-chested in shorts and crocs despite freezing temperatures of only 10-dgrees Fahrenheit after his plea to change into warmer clothes was sadistically denied.
    • He was driven around for an hour until they realized their mistake and returned him back home without an apology.
  • Britain Rodriguez
    Peaceful Protestor
    Santa Ana, CA
    Jan 16, 2026
    31-year-old Britain Rodriguez was blinded in one eye after being struck in the face while peacefully protesting outside of an immigration building. He recalled, "I remember hitting the ground and feeling like my eye exploded in my head."
  • Family with six children
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 15, 2026
    A family was trying to escape with their children to a safer location after ICE agents tear gassed their neighborhood, but then agents fired flash-bang grenades and tear gas at their vehicle with six children inside. Their 6-month-old baby had to be hospitalized with breathing problems.
  • Kaden Rummler
    21-year-old protester
    Peaceful Protestor
    Santa Ana, CA
    Jan 14, 2026
    21-year-old Kaden Rummler, who is 5'1" tall and weighs 102lbs, was shot directly in the face by a riot control projectile with such force it caused permanent blindness in one eye. Despite also suffering skull fractures and having a bloodied face, they dragged him by his shirt and handcuffed him on the ground.
  • Peaceful protestors
    Peaceful Protestor
    St Louis Park suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 13, 2026
    Peaceful observers were shot by rubber bullets for filming ICE agents abusing a woman detained for similarly filming them at a safe distance from her car.
  • Woman following ICE vehicles
    U.S. Citizen
    St Louis Park suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 13, 2026
    A woman was accosted, assaulted, threatened and mocked by ICE agents for merely filming them from her car at a safe distance.
    • Her phone was snatched from her hand by an ICE agent while she was recording him. He threatened, "have y’all not learned from the past couple of days" in reference to a woman who was recently shot and killed by an agent. Then he slammed her head into her car after which she was handcuffed and forced against an ICE truck.
    • The same agent then threatened her again with "Is this how you want to die, with a f#%king bullet in your skull?" He then grabbed her collar choking her to a point where she could not breathe.
    • Other agents showed up and forced her to the ground where one agent further intimidated by asking if she "learned her lesson." When she called him out for it, they laughed and said they were going to let her go but now changed their mind and left her crying and hyperventilating sitting on the ground in handcuffs for a while.
    • An ICE agent returned and pulled her up so forcefully that she fainted and was left flat down on the pavement without agents rendering any help. When she awoke, agents laughed and said "see, she's faking."
    • She then later fainted a second time and awoke on her side on the pavement this time with her handcuffs removed, no aid rendered again and free to go.
  • Teenage girl
    U.S. Citizen
    Mississippi
    Jan 13, 2026
    A U.S. citizen teenage girl was racially profiled, forcibly removed from a vehicle and handcuffed by agents without even asking for any documents and despite being a minor. When finally allowed to show proof of citizenship, agents cruelly "snatched the documents from her hand" as if angry they couldn't make an arrest.
  • Peaceful protesters and a disabled women
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 13, 2026
    Multiple innocent people were accosted by immigration agents while they blocked traffic during which:
    • A disabled woman trying to drive to a doctor's appointment had agents break her window and drag her out of her car.
    • A peaceful observer on scene was tackled and had his face pressed into the concrete
    • A State Rep. was shoved "with no verbal communication whatsoever"
    • Multiple others safely observing were needlessly pepper sprayed.
  • Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Sigüenza
    Trained ICE Observers
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 13, 2026
    Trained observers had their car vents pepper sprayed and windows smashed by an ICE agent for documenting their actions and said of recently murdered Renee Good, "that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead." One agent ripped the whistle off Brandon Sigüenza's neck taunting that he's "gonna be needing this later." Other agents taunted and mocked Patty O’Keefe including calling her ugly. They were detained for 8 hours and released without charges.
  • Christian Molina
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 12, 2026
    Christian Molina was racially profiled and had his car smashed by ICE agents with little warning as he was finding a spot to safely pull over. They left without detaining him and also without leaving contact information promised to pay for damage to his vehicle.
  • Christina Rank
    Special needs teacher
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago, IL
    Jan 12, 2026
    Special needs teacher Christina Rank was rammed by ICE agents who then smashed her windows, pulled her out and falsely accused her of ramming them which is disputed by multiple witnesses and the fact the damage was to the passenger side of her vehicle.
  • Jon Farina & JT Cestkowski
    Status Coup Journalists
    Fort Snelling suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 11, 2026
    Journalists Jon Farina & JT Cestkowski were hit with crowd control projectiles despite being across the street where immigration agents directed them to stand and also despite wearing large press credentials and carrying a logoed mic and professional camera. Throughout the day they also endured tear gassing from agents "blanket firing into the whole crowd."
  • Rev. Kenny Callaghan
    Pastor
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 9, 2026
    Reverend Kenny Callaghan had an ICE agent point a gun in his face and ask, "are you afraid now?" for simply telling him to stop harassing a woman. He was detained for 30 minutes during which the agent repeatedly returned to ask if he was "afraid yet" and then finally let go without any charges after which the agent made a racist comment, "You’re white anyway. You wouldn’t be any fun."
  • Two Target employees
    U.S. Citizen
    Target store in Richfield suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 8, 2026
    Two U.S. citizen Target employees were assaulted by immigration agents, detained for no reason and then released.
    • There is video of an employee backing away into the store filming the officer and then being tackled
    • A 17-year-old employee was roughed up, taken in a vehicle and left at a Walmart 8 miles away where customers found him bleeding and sobbing from the traumatic experience
  • High school students and special ed teacher
    U.S. Citizen
    Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 8, 2026
    Minneapolis high school students were tear gassed by ICE\CBP agents who were "shouting at students, threatening students" and multiple witnesses reported people being shoved noting agents were "physical and aggressive." They detained a special ed teacher for dubious reasons and so he was later released.
  • 37-year-old woman
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 7, 2026
    A 37-year-old woman U.S. citizen was shot by an ICE agent at point blank range as she drove passed him clearly trying to leave the scene after apparently instructed to do so by other agents. She then crashed into two vehicles. Witness and video accounts additionally show the agent leaving the scene and ICE preventing immediate medical attention to the woman who waited to receive CPR from local police.
  • Keith Porter Jr
    Los Angeles, CA
    Jan 6, 2026
    Father of two Keith Porter Jr was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE goon outside his apartment on New Years Eve likely due to him engaging in celebratory gunfire which happens a lot in LA without the celebrant getting shot by someone and is usually charged as a misdemeanor.
  • Woman detainee
    Basile ICE facility in Louisiana
    Dec 29, 2025
    A woman detainee was sexually abused over three months with other detainees forced to act as lookouts by ICE detention officer David Courvelle at a Louisiana ICE facility.
  • 16=year-old high school student
    Hartford, CT and Texas
    Dec 24, 2025
    A 16-year-old high school student on track for an early graduation was needlessly detained for 6 months at a facility in Texas despite living in Connecticut and despite adhering to routine check-ins with immigration. They threatened to immediately deport him with only a single phone call allowed in the middle of the night, but luckily, he had memorized the phone number to their lawyer who answered and prevented the illegal deportation.
  • Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry
    Legal U.S. Resident
    Tukwila suburb of Seattle, WA
    Dec 23, 2025
    Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry was unjustly detained for three months away from his U.S. citizen wife and two young children despite living in the U.S. legally for 25 years and serving in the U.S. Army. He also lost his vision due to a thyroid eye disease that wasn’t properly treated during detainment.
  • Viviana Corral
    mother of four
    U.S. Citizen
    Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL
    Dec 17, 2025
    Mother of four Viviana Corral was threatened with guns by two immigration agents with one saying, "you better not do it" for merely walking up to film them detaining a neighbor.
  • Man in a truck
    Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA
    Dec 17, 2025
    A man had his truck boxed in recklessly by two ICE vehicles and then his window smashed after which he was dragged out of the truck, grabbed by the neck, thrown against a porch railing and repeatedly punched. Then he was pepper sprayed, tackled and pinned to the ground despite pleas that he could not breathe, and ICE agents refused to allow a bystander to give the man water to wash out his eyes.
  • Man running
    Rialto, CA
    Dec 17, 2025
    An immigration agent recklessly drove a black truck fast in a parking lot striking a fleeing man with its mirror knocking him to the ground dangerously close to doing much more serious harm.
  • Teenage girl
    Chicago, IL
    Dec 17, 2025
    A teenage girl is left terrorized by overly aggressive questioning by immigration agents who are seen laughing afterwards.
  • Reporters & protestors filming
    South Minneapolis, MN
    Dec 15, 2025
    ICE agents indiscriminately shot pepper spray into a crowd that was determined to not be breaking any laws by local law enforcement.
    • WCCO reporter Esme Murphy and her photographer were hit by pepper spray while covering an ICE raid
    • State Rep. Aisha Gomez described the scene as "Everyone is coughing"
  • Jose Gomez
    13-year-old boy
    Asylum Applicant
    Eden Prairie suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Dec 11, 2025
    A 13-year-old boy was thrown to the ground, struck, handcuffed by ICE agents and taken away in a vehicle without giving any medical attention. Only after repeated insistence by his father was he released into his family's custody who took him to the hospital which the medical report stated he was a "victim of assault and battery" with "chest wall pain."
  • Darwing Padilla
    U.S. Work Permit Holder,Green Card Applicant
    New Orleans, LA
    Dec 11, 2025
    Darwing Padilla was targeted by several masked ICE agents who followed him to his home in unmarked vehicles. Agents ignored his valid papers under the guise of having an order of deportation (which did not exist). When his wife called them out on their ruse and asked to see it, they then pretended to have "misread" it and left. His 7-year-old daughter witnessed the entire incident crying out, "My dad, my dad, my dad. They are taking my dad" while shaking.
  • Khalid Mohamed and Unassuming Woman
    Peaceful Protestor
    Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN
    Dec 9, 2025
    Peaceful protesters were excessively pepper sprayed from ICE vehicles as they were driving away. One officer got out of the car and pepper sprayed multiple people in the eyes and the ground including spraying a very unassuming person with their back turned inches from their face. One victim, Khalid Mohamed, attested, "I lost my voice. I was blind for about 30 minutes." Leading up to all this, agents randomly asked people on the street if they had IDs and proof of citizenship.
  • Susan Tincher
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Dec 9, 2025
    55-year-old U.S. citizen Susan Tincher was detained for 5 hours for passively protesting and recording an ICE raid of 8 unmarked vehicles from a safe distance. She was thrown to the ground, needlessly cuffed, shackled, threatened with pepper spray and had her wedding ring cut off.
  • Wilmer Toledo-Martinez
    Washington State
    Dec 6, 2025
    DACA and marriage visa eligible Wilmer Toledo-Martinez, who has lived in the U.S. since 15 with a U.S. citizen wife and two kids, was lured outside his home under false pretenses by an ICE agent posing as a construction worker after which another agent sicced a dog on him in front of his family despite not resisting arrest or attempting to flee. He suffered gruesome bite marks, dizziness, blurred vision and was denied medical treatment for hours before being taken to a hospital. He received stiches for his injuries at a hospital and antibiotics he was prescribed were not immediately provided and another prescribed medication was never provided. Democratic senator Patty Murray has called for his immediate release from detainment.
  • Jose Paniagua Calderón
    Vancouver, WA
    Dec 5, 2025
    Jose Paniagua Calderón had his foot run over by an ICE agent of which a witness who filmed it said she "heard the screams of absolute pain that just stop you in your tracks." Instead of giving him medical attention, they put him handcuffed in back of a car and drove away. This was after they haphazardly and dangerously blocked a busy intersection with multiple ICE vehicles disrupting traffic and smashed his car window.
  • Peaceful protestors
    Tucson, AZ
    Dec 5, 2025
    ICE agents used excessive force on peaceful protestors and journalist outside the Taco Giro including pepper spraying people at close range, firing pepper balls into crowds and using tear gas. U.S. Adelita Grijalva reported members of her staff, press and herself were directly sprayed in the face.
  • Somali woman U.S. citizen
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Dec 5, 2025
    A Somali woman U.S. citizen was accosted by multiple ICE agents, zip-tied and detained 24 hours in Minneapolis for no reason. She was touched inappropriately and mocked with agents saying, "What could you be hiding under your hijab?" and "This would be the wrong attire to try and run away from us in."
  • Bryan
    Construction worker
    U.S. Citizen
    Baldwin Park neighborhood of L.A.
    Dec 5, 2025
    A U.S. citizen construction worker had his phone taken and handcuffed by CBP agents of which they obstinately said, "you’re being detained for your own safety."
    • They refused to say what he was being detained for and drove off with him cuffed in the back without a seatbelt.
    • They peppered him with questions and then dropped him off at some random place 10 to 20 minutes away callously tossing his belongings to the ground in the process (his wallet, ID, hat and mask).
    • There were further egregious violations of the Constitution and racial profiling.
    • Someone took video of people at the house under construction with a phone under the false pretense of using the restroom on site just 15 minutes before agents arrived.
    • They did not have a warrant and previously passed the house as if they were scouting it and then circled back indicating racial profiling was involved.
  • Construction workers on a roof
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    Kenner Suburb of New Orleans
    Dec 4, 2025
    Roofers were targeted by ICE\CBP on top of a two-story house in a New Orleans suburb of Kenner despite being informed that all have legal permits to work in the U.S. Multiple agents pointed guns up at them despite not being a threat. They also chased someone else with guns drawn in an excessive use of force found distressing to neighbors. The raid was done purportedly to target one specific person but then they used that to harass everyone else working on site, apparently for being Hispanic.
  • Nayra Guzmán
    Mother of baby needing intensive care
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    Chicago, IL
    Dec 2, 2025
    U.S. work permit holder and 22-year-old asylum applicant Nayra Guzmán and her family were detained by ICE on their way to see her baby recovering at the neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital after an emergency Cesarean section of which she also suffered pain and complications. Despite their paperwork and circumstances, she was detained for 34 hours without receiving any medical evaluation. And, she was forced to spend the entire time in a room which was very cold with only a bench to lie on and no blankets or anything for sleep. Afterwards, she had complications producing breast milk for her baby. While being transferred by van, agents, aware of her condition and ignoring pleas from her brother, drove recklessly fast and over potholes in a way that was very painful for Nayra.
  • Chinese man and his son Yuanxin
    Queens, NY
    Dec 2, 2025
    A Chinese father was arrested and detained separately from his 6-year-old son after a routine immigration appointment in Queens of which nobody knows where the son is being kept in ICE custody and ICE did not provide any information on his detainment until a week later acknowledging he was in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement
  • Venezuelan father and 19-year-old daughter
    U.S. Work Permit Holder,Asylum Applicant
    Chicago, El Paso & New Mexico
    Dec 1, 2025
    A Venezuelan father and 19-year-old daughter asylum seekers were taken by ICE agents during a standard immigration check-in in Chicago despite having work permits and a good asylum case. They were taken to the Broadview facility where they were "cold, without any blankets, without any food and they were laying on the floor without any beds." They were later transferred to facilities far away in El Paso and New Mexico where placing a simple phone call costs $53 and overcrowded with 70 people in the room the daughter was held in. Medical issues were ignored where the daughter was not given any medication despite having a bad cough that was worsening and the father hadn't been given his medication for high blood pressure.
  • Man passively protesting
    Peaceful Protestor
    St Paul, Minnesota
    Nov 29, 2025
    A peaceful protestor said something to an ICE agent wearing an American flag mask and in response the agent pushed him and pointed his assault rifle at him
  • Martha Ruiz
    56-year old diabetic
    Green Card Applicant
    Gary, Indiana
    Nov 29, 2025
    56-year old diabetic Martha Ruiz, who has no criminal history and has lived in the U.S. since the 90s on a religious visa, had agents bang on her door and then immediately broke it down before she had time to answer.
    • Despite her telling them she had a hurt arm, agents forced it behind her back and handcuffed her on the ground.
    • One of their dogs obviously bit her repeatedly on her back and legs leaving bite wounds still noticeable two weeks later. When she yelled out in pain and out of a longtime fear of dogs, they dismissed her with "our dog doesn’t bite."
    • They then dragged her up the stairs and threw her on the ground fracturing her ribs which she did not receive any medical attention for until she was released two weeks later.
    • When she asked to use the bathroom, they refused.
    • She was transferred from a nearby ICE facility in Broadview, Chicago where she shared an overcrowded room with 170 people with only one window, a single open bathroom with no privacy and where some had to sleep on the floor.
    • She was then transferred to an El Paso, TX ICE facility much further away after a couple days where they finally treated just the pain from her injuries but only with a single injection.
    • She was finally taken to a women's shelter where people were kind and welcoming but obstinately felt the need to shackle her the entire trip all the way up until she walked in the door.
    • When finally released, her son had to fly all the way out to El Paso to bring her home where she was given an ankle monitor -- something they could have done very easily from the beginning.
  • Maryioth Pascanales
    Memphis, TN
    Nov 27, 2025
    Maryioth Pascanales immediately went to open the front door pounded on by ICE agents, but before she could answer they broke through her door and needlessly tear gassed her and her two 10-month-old twins and made a "mess of the home". She was handcuffed and driven to an ICE facility with her babies where they were detained for 5 hours until released.
  • Woman passively protesting
    Payne-Phalen neighborhood of St Paul, MN
    Nov 25, 2025
    A woman in a cane passively and peacefully protesting an ICE operation was pepper sprayed in the face at point blank range for an excessively long time after which she was pushed away until she fell to the ground overcome. This violated a federal court order governing its use according to a former officer and use-of-force expert.
  • Marimar Martinez & Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago, IL
    Nov 20, 2025
    Marimar Martinez & Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz were targeted by CBP agents who instigated an accident.
    • An agent in a vehicle yelled out "do something b#tch" after which another agent escalated and shot at her five times of which she was hospitalized with a bullet wound.
    • The shooting agent sadistically bragged afterwards, "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys" and then later in response to a news article on the incident, "Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes."
    • Both were initially charged with assault, but prosecutors ended up dropping all charges with prejudice as evidence showed it was CBP who were negligent.
    • In addition, the offending agent drove the vehicle 1000 miles away to Maine immediately afterwards which was against protocols so presumably was done to hinder investigations into his culpability.
  • Two women following ICE Vehicles
    U.S. Citizen
    Charlotte, NC
    Nov 18, 2025
    Two women U.S. citizens had their car windows dangerously smashed in by an AR-15 muzzle after which they were zip-tied, arrested and held in federal custody for hours before being released with just minor citations. Agents were unhappy with the women for merely honking their horns alerting people to ICE.
  • Fernando Vazquez
    18-year-old construction worker
    U.S. Citizen
    Cary, NC
    Nov 18, 2025
    18-year-old U.S. citizen Fernando Vazquez was racially profiled by CBJ agents who drove up to a job site in unmarked SUVs and approached him wearing masks and dark sunglasses and asked him "where are you from?" and further questioned him in Spanish. One agent ripped his AirPod out of his ear and when he tried to put it safely back in its case, the agent yelled "don't touch me" despite him not making any moves towards him. He had his North Carolina Real ID proving his citizenship, yet they handcuffed and drove him away with an agent getting angry to him further asserting details of being a citizen. Finally, they pulled into a parking lot, uncuffed him and threw his wallet and cards out the window which scattered to the ground. They did this instead of admitting their mistake, driving him back to where they took him from, personally handing him his wallet and apologizing for the inconvenience from their mistake which any respectful and decent law enforcement officer would do.
  • Jennifer
    33-year-old mother and her four children
    Queens, New York City
    Nov 18, 2025
    Jennifer had her apartment door busted in by immigration agents without showing a warrant, had her phone knocked out of her hands as she filmed and was dragged by her hair while holding her 2-year-old baby. One agent screamed, "put your fucking hands up, stupid" and another pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter. They were detained for an hour as agents asked them about a cousin who had not lived there for years.
  • Two women peacefully following ICE\CBP vehicles
    U.S. Citizen
    Charlotte, NC
    Nov 18, 2025
    Two women had their car window smashed, an assault rifle pointed directly at them and were detained for hours before being released with minor citations for merely exercising their 1st amendment rights and following ICE vehicles from a safe distance.
  • People at a late night venue
    San Antonio, TX
    Nov 16, 2025
    92 people were needlessly detained and handcuffed including two teenage boys during an ICE raid which appeared to use racial profiling to exceed the scope of the warrant. During the raid, they walked up to and immediately tackled a man to the ground who was simply standing by a table with his back turned. They also broke the door of a food truck that was locked and closed for the night, and an agent used an umbrella to break a security camera which recorded everything. Afterwards, the agency refused to provide answers to basic questions or evidence of claims they made supporting the raid.
  • Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez
    Citizen journalist
    U.S. Citizen
    Charlotte, NC
    Nov 16, 2025
    U.S. citizen activist journalist Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez passively followed and filmed CBP agents from his van during which they targeted him in an unwarranted, unjustified and egregious escalation and excessive use of force after he did not agree to a "voluntary stop" by an agent and another agent made a gesture for him to leave after which he left. Despite leaving to deescalate the situation as instructed, CBP agents followed him driving recklessly including briefly into oncoming traffic and the CBP agent driving tried repeatedly to ram his van egged on by his fellow agents who described the pursuit as "fun" and "great." And in further disregard to public safety one exclaimed, "he’s gonna get shot is what’s gonna happen." When finally stopped, they smashed his window, arrested him and -- as was probably the plan all along to intimate people holding them accountable -- falsely charged him with assault. A judge summarily dropped the assault charges noting it was CBP agents who expressed an intent to hit the van.
  • Woman driver following an ICE vehicle
    Fullerton, CA
    Nov 11, 2025
    A woman driver was threatened with a gun by a plain-clothed ICE agent for merely following and recording him at a safe distance according to a video and reports from a police officer who witnesses it.
  • Chicagoan
    Chicago, IL
    Nov 9, 2025
    A person recorded an ICE agent threatening them with a pistol
  • Guillermo Diaz-Torres
    ICE agent
    Chicago, IL
    Nov 6, 2025
    ICE agent Guillermo Diaz-Torres passed out in his car in the middle of an intersection. When a police officer knocked on his window, he attempted to flee jumping a curb and crashing his car into a tree line. He was charged with a DUI due to failed field sobriety tests struggling to walk in a straight line, counting steps, holding one foot in the air and reciting the alphabet.
  • 32-year-old father & his 1-year-old daughter
    U.S. Citizen
    Los Angeles Home Depot Parking Lot
    Nov 6, 2025
    A 32-year-old father and U.S. citizen was removed from his vehicle by masked immigration agents who then drove off in his car with his one-year-old daughter strapped in the back seat ignoring yelled warnings by a witness that "there's a baby in the back" (presumably on purpose). The family did not know where she was for a while and the baby's grandmother was made to wait for hours at an immigration center and provide proof of citizenship before they returned the baby.
  • Diana Santillana Galeano
    Day care center employee
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    Daycare center in Roscoe Village neighborhood of Chicago, IL
    Nov 5, 2025
    Diana Santillana Galeano was wrestled from a daycare center in front of kids, picked up and slammed face first into the door as she was pushed outside afterwards witnesses saw, "dozens of parents and educators weeping." She was detained needlessly for a week despite having a legal work permit.
  • 23-year-old woman
    U.S. Citizen
    Gresham suburb of Portland, OR
    Nov 4, 2025
    A 23-year-old woman U.S. citizen taking photos of unmarked federal immigration vehicles had her car window broken, handcuffed and detained in a cell for 7 hours with chains around her legs She was denied a phone call to a lawyer with an obvious lie that the landlines were down and during her detention agents were "laughing like it was a joke."
  • Carlos Jimenez
    Father of three
    Riverside, CA
    Nov 3, 2025
    Father of three Carlos Jimenez stopped near an elementary school bus stop to let ICE agents know through his passenger window that kids were going to be there soon after which his lawyer conveyed, "the male officer immediately had his gun drawn and pointed at Mr. Jimenez’s head and told him to get the f
    • k out of here."
    • So, he pulls forward to leave as instructed -- obviously with no intentions of causing harm -- and is shot in the shoulder.
    • His family drove him to the hospital to receive medical attention but then "The FBI took him from Riverside Community Hospital in an FBI van while he was handcuffed and shackled and interrogated him back at the scene while he was bleeding and before he had received substantive medical treatment."
    • Jimenez still remains in pain with fragments in his shoulder and torso unable to return to work at a community food pantry
  • Man safely following ICE vehicle
    Evanston Suburb of Chicago
    Oct 31, 2025
    A restrained man was repeatedly struck in the head by an ICE agent while roughly held down on pavement and despite him saying that he can't breathe. This happened after agents caused an accident by braking hard in front of the vehicle following them. Agents presumably used the accident as a ploy to target the occupants and escalate the situation with three U.S. citizens arrested.
  • Omar Huerta Cisneros
    Schizophrenic 54-year-old
    Green Card Holder
    Southwest Chicago
    Oct 31, 2025
    Schizophrenic 54-year-old Omar Huerta Cisneros, a Green Card holder since 1988, was detained by ICE and then dropped off somewhere else at random despite him obviously needing help upon which it took his family two weeks to find him because of his condition
  • Fernando Jaramillo-Solano
    Father of Two
    Asylum Applicant
    Durango, CO, ICE Facility
    Oct 29, 2025
    Asylum applicants Fernando Jaramillo-Solano, who worked three jobs and has no criminal history, and two of his children were detained at ICE facilities for a month before they were forced to deport back to Colombia due to the distress his children faced. ICE pulled them over while he while taking them to school in search of another person, and so they were detained without a warrant. His 12-year-old daughter said an ICE agent grabbed her breast while she was transported and experienced "acute psychological distress" during her captivity. And his 15-year-old son said when they arrived at the facility, they were treated badly, beaten and given nothing to eat or drink but potato chips and water for a day.
  • Franci Stagi
    5-foot-2 petite retiree
    U.S. Citizen,Peaceful Protestor
    Durango, CO, ICE Facility
    Oct 29, 2025
    57-year-old peaceful protestor Franci Stagi had her phone grabbed or knocked out of her hand by an ICE agent she was filming. When she approached him to ask for her phone he snapped and grabbed her by the hair, lifted her off the ground in a chokehold and pushed her to the ground with two other agents despite being a petite 5-foot-2. The actions were egregious enough for the local police chief to open an investigation into the agent's actions.
  • 67-year-old runner
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago
    Oct 29, 2025
    A 67-year-old runner and U.S. Citizen was dragged from his car, tackled, pinned down and knelt on by immigration agents in front of children attending a Halloween parade in such an excessive use of force that he suffered six broken ribs and internal bleeding of which many bystanders described as aggressive and unjustified.
  • Sixteen-year-old Arnoldo Bazan & his father
    U.S. Citizen
    Restaurant Depot store in Houston, TX
    Oct 28, 2025
    Sixteen-year-old U.S. citizen Arnoldo Bazan was beaten, choked and verbally attacked with racial slurs by plain clothed and masked ICE officers with such force he had to go to a children's trauma unit of a hospital suffering from "damage to his neck and spine that lasted for weeks"
    • When he cried out that he was underage, the agent started to choke him even more which was severe enough for a witness to yell out "you're fixing to break his neck."
    • An agent confiscated his phone after they noticed him filming presumably to hide incriminating evidence against them
    • He was detained for hours before being released without charges.
    • During the incident his father was also roughed up and kicked. Agents previously cut off the car the father was driving in with his father with two unmarked vehicles and recklessly escalated the situation by smashing the windows after which Arnulfo said he was scared and drove off briefly to escape before stopping again.
    • Arnoldo found his confiscated phone days later in a Walmart parking lot kiosk selling used phones confirming that an agent not only hid evidence but profited off of it articlevideo
    • Video from the later found phone shows agents violently ramming their vehicle four times before they stopped articlevideo
  • Ruben Morales and Jessi Olazaba
    Activist protestors
    U.S. Citizen
    Aurora, IL
    Oct 26, 2025
    U.S. Citizen activist protestors Ruben Morales and Jessi Olazaba were attacked by ICE agents despite turning around and backing up when told. They pepper sprayed Ruben Morales in the back and tackled him to the ground with such force it ripped his pants, bloodied his knees and scratched his throat and arm. Jessi Olazaba filmed the arrest and an agent knocked off her glasses, pepper sprayed her and shoved her to the ground where she hit the back of her head. Ruben Morales was released without charges and Jessi Olazaba was cited for impeding an arrest despite merely filming their actions from an appropriate distance.
  • Law Abiding Chicago Citizens
    Old Irving Park, Chicago
    Oct 25, 2025
    ICE deployed tear gas on a residential street in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood without warning or provocation as families with young children were gathering to watch a popular yearly Halloween parade.
  • Ashley Palomares
    U.S. Citizen
    Wilder, Idaho horse track
    Oct 24, 2025
    Ashley Palomares was taken to do the ground and cuffed in an excessive use of force by agents and detained for 2 1/2 hours despite having her ID and being born in the USA. An older woman detained with her said she needed to use the bathroom and instead of helping the officer laughed. She also observed a boy around 14 grabbed by the neck and zip-tied.
  • Reverend Jorge Bautista
    Pastor at an Oakland Church
    Peaceful Protestor
    U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, CA
    Oct 24, 2025
    Reverend Jorge Bautista was shot in the face by a pepper ball at close range despite simply standing peacefully holding a protest sign and also dressed nicely in a suit. It was severe enough for him to be taken to an emergency room where he texted that he was "in a lot of pain."
  • John Doe & Neighborhood Residents
    Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago, IL
    Oct 24, 2025
    Federal immigration agents jumped a fence to detain a man on private property without a warrant in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood and then fired tear gas across a residential street without warning when neighbors demanded answers in violation of a federal court order requiring ICE to issue a verbal warning before deploying tear gas.
  • Combat Veteran
    Peaceful Protestor
    Little Village Chicago Neighborhood
    Oct 23, 2025
    A combat veteran peacefully protesting was accosted by a masked immigration agent who pointed a handgun at his face through his open car window and said, "bang bang, you're dead liberal"
  • Pregnant mother
    Basile, Louisiana
    Oct 22, 2025
    A mother of two children found out she was pregnant after being detained by ICE for around a month in Louisiana but "received minimal portions of substandard food that left her feeling hungry and malnourished." She later experienced abdominal pain and other severe symptoms that required hospitalized during which she was told she had a miscarriage. She was taken back to the ICE facility where she continued to suffer from severe symptoms and pain and kept for an additional two months before being deported.
  • Quinn Haberl
    Blind peaceful protestor
    Peaceful Protestor
    Portland, OR
    Oct 22, 2025
    Quinn Haberl,a 4-foot-6 blind man sitting outside an ICE facility peacefully protesting and clearly not impeding whatsoever, was grabbed, dragged and dropped on his head, had foot pressed on his back and neck and was cuffed for an hour before taken to the hospital with lots of bruising. Agents referred to Portland as a warzone unironically during the excessively violent arrest.
  • 14-year-old girl and her mother
    Wilder, ID horse race track
    Oct 21, 2025
    A 14-year-old girl was dragged out of her family truck by gunpoint during an ICE raid where she fell to the ground resulting in bruising on her ribcage and was then zip-tied. Her mother, Anabel Romero, was shoved to the ground and was kicked repeatedly resulting in bruising of her ribs and shoulder despite holding her hands empty in the air waiting for instruction. They also put a gun to her head and said they were going to "f%#king blow her head off." She was zip-tied as well and asked to go back to her children of which the agent laughed and said, "we're taking better care of them." They were detained for 3 hours despite telling them her social security number and date of birth and that she had her ID in their truck.
  • State Rep. Hoan Huynh
    U.S. Citizen
    Northwest Chicago
    Oct 21, 2025
    State Rep. Hoan Huynh's vehicle was surrounded by six federal immigration agents with one officer having their gun drawn who prevented him from following an unmarked vehicle which he had the legal right to do.
  • Ruben Torres Maldonado
    House painter
    Marriage Visa Applicant
    Home Depot in Niles suburb outside Chicago
    Oct 21, 2025
    Ruben Torres Maldonado had his truck windows smashed as he was surrounded by four masked ICE agents outside of a Home Depot and taken into custody. He was detained for two weeks despite being eligible for special immigration consideration because his high school daughter was battling Stage 4 cancer and had just returned home from nearly 40 days of inpatient chemotherapy. He had no criminal record and had lived in the US for 22 years.
  • Nenko Stanev Gantchev
    U.S. Work Permit Holder,Green Card Applicant
    Baldwin, MI, ICE facility
    Oct 17, 2025
    56-year-old Bulgarian Nenko Stanev Gantchev died in ICE custody after his health deteriorated due to poor medical treatment of his diabetes for weeks and multiple detainees noted he asked for medical assistance but did not receive it in time to save his life. He was married to a US citizen, lived in the US for 30 years, attended multiple Green Card application meetings (of which last one he was detained at) and deemed a low threat yet was still held without bail at a facility for 3 months until he died which was a 4 hour drive from his home in Chicago.
  • Leonardo Espartaco Martinez
    Immigration Rights Activist
    U.S. Citizen
    Oxnard, CA
    Oct 16, 2025
    Leonardo Espartaco Martinez, a U.S. citizen and immigration rights activist legally monitoring federal immigration agents on behalf of watchdog group VC Defensa, was rammed by an SUV driven by them and suffered injuries serious enough to require hospitalization after which he was detained and released without any charges filed.
  • 15-year-old boy
    U.S. Citizen Born in Chicago
    Chicago
    Oct 14, 2025
    A 15-year-old American citizen peacefully protesting excessive use of force by CBP agents was slammed to the ground, cuffed and held down so hard he cried out "my neck, my neck" after which they pushed him down even harder. Then he was detained by agents in a federal building garage for five hours without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney or his family.
  • Chicago Car Owners
    Chicago
    Oct 14, 2025
    ICE chased two people for 30 minutes from their white SUV -- not because they were a danger but because they were undocumented. As a result, an Uber driver almost got hit by their vehicle and a parked car got damaged when they rammed the vehicle they were chasing despite the fact that ramming vehicles is against local Chicago PD procedures in all scenarios.
  • Four U.S. Citizens
    U.S. Citizen
    Concordia Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
    Oct 14, 2025
    Four U.S. citizens were wrongfully detained for hours until released without charges by ICE officers who broke down a cemetery gate and entered private property without a warrant and unnecessarily deployed pepper balls against them.
  • Maria Greeley
    44-year-old Latina worker at a bar
    U.S. Citizen born in Chicago
    Downtown Chicago bar
    Oct 13, 2025
    Bar worker Maria Greeley was zip-tied and questioned for an hour by federal immigration agents after finishing a double shift and despite having her passport and other forms of identification on hand of which the agents repeatedly questioned her valid identification documents as fake and said she "doesn’t look like" a Greeley (she was adopted).
  • John Cerrone
    Marine Corp veteran
    U.S. Citizen
    Broadview ICE facility near Chicago
    Oct 13, 2025
    US Marine veteran John Cerrone was violently tackled to the ground despite trying to deescalate by slowly pulling a protestor and also despite being on property adjacent to but not owned by ICE. He was detained for nine hours in a cell covered with blood, hair and mucus during which an agent boasted about shooting him in the head with rubber bullets yelling, "Where is that pussy!"
  • Frank Miranda
    Metal shop employee
    U.S. Citizen
    U.S. Citizen born in California
    Portland, OR
    Oct 11, 2025
    U.S. citizen and Portlander Frank Miranda was threatened by masked ICE agents that "we're gonna put you in cuffs or you're gonna get the dog" after which he was struck from behind, handcuffed and put in a van in which his legs were kicked out from under him and was told he would be sitting on the floor. He was driven to an ICE facility where he was held for several hours without access to a lawyer before being released without charges or any explanation of his detainment.
  • Debbie Brockman
    WGN Employee
    U.S. Citizen
    Lincoln Square Chicago
    Oct 10, 2025
    U.S. Citizen and WGN Chicago employee Debbie Brockman was forced to the ground, handcuffed and battered in a way that exposed her buttocks while walking to a bus top in a northside neighborhood and was detained for seven hours despite no evidence of any wrongdoing and finally was released without charges.
  • Woman driver
    Chicago Northside Neighborhood
    Oct 10, 2025
    A woman's car is hit by ICE agents which is clearly their fault. But instead of responding reasonably acknowledging their role in causing the accident, they violently dragged the woman from her car and threw her to the ground in an egregiously excessive use of force perhaps triggered by her honking at them for blocking the road in an unmarked vehicle. The SUV doesn't turn normally to leave the scene and instead makes an overly wide turn -- perhaps in an attempt to intimidate bystanders filming them from the sidewalk -- which is abnormal for someone continuing straight. So, the woman probably thinks it's fine to finally pass. But the SUV driver veers quickly back into the street as if they were not paying attention and sideswipes the woman trying to get by.
  • Reverend David Black
    First Presbyterian Church of Chicago
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago Broadview suburb
    Oct 9, 2025
    Reverend David Black, dressed in all black and peacefully protesting with his hands open in a non-threatening, way was shot in the head and body multiple times with pepper balls without any warning.
  • Bayron Rovidio Marin
    Car wash employee
    Los Angeles Car Wash
    Oct 7, 2025
    Los Angeles resident Bayron Rovidio Marin suffered a broken leg during an immigration raid on the car wash he worked at and was handcuffed to a hospital bed for 37 days without any charges and was prevented from making phone calls, seeing family members and having proper access to lawyers. ICE agents were in his room 24 hours a day including during consults with his doctor.
  • Peaceful protestor in an inflatable frog costume
    Peaceful Protestor
    Portland ICE Facility
    Oct 4, 2025
    A man dressed in an inflatable frog costume during a peaceful protest against ICE -- who obviously could not pose the slightest threat because of the sheer awkwardness of his satirical outfit -- was pepper sprayed directly in the air intake for the costume posing a severe medical risk.
  • Multiple bystanders
    Rico Fresh Mexican market in Logan Square, Chicago
    Oct 3, 2025
    Multiple bystanders near the Rico Fresh Mexican market of the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago were subjected to a needlessly thrown smoke grenade. Multiple drivers had to stop and a couple with a 2-year-old had to rush to safety. The behavior was severe enough for the Chicago PD to open an investigation.
  • Jessie Fuentes
    Chicago Alderperson
    Hospital in Chicago
    Oct 3, 2025
    Chicago Alderwoman Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed by plain-clothed ICE agents and forced out of a hospital for merely challenging the constitutionality of their detainment of an immigrant without a warrant.
  • Chicago Block Club journalists
    Chicago
    Oct 1, 2025
    Four reporters\photojournalists for the Chicago news outlet Block Club "were hit with pepper balls by federal officers at the Broadview ICE facility and were at risk of enduring other forms of force, despite standing on public ways and apart from the crowd, wearing visible press credentials, and displaying other visible indications they were there as members of the press.”
  • Garcia Venegas
    U.S. Citizen
    Alabama construction site
    Oct 1, 2025
    U.S. citizen Garcia Venegas was racially profiled and detained on two separate occasions by ICE officers despite producing his REAL ID which they smeared as fake. On one occasion they screamed for him to "get on the fucking ground" and kept him in handcuffs for more than an hour and another incident they detained him and two other lawful U.S. citizens for 20-30 minutes.
  • Pertissue Fisher
    Apartment Resident
    U.S. Citizen
    Apartment building in South Shore neighborhood of Chicago
    Sep 30, 2025
    U.S. citizen Pertissue Fisher was handcuffed and detained for hours during an ICE raid on a South Shore apartment building in Chicago of which she noted it was the first time a gun was ever put in her face and said that "they just treated us like we were nothing."
  • Rodrick Johnson
    Blind Army veteran retiree
    U.S. Citizen
    South Shore neighborhood apartment complex
    Sep 30, 2025
    Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran retiree who recently went blind and completely innocent of any wrongdoings, had his door kicked in by federal in the middle of the night during an ICE raid on an apartment building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago and was detained in a van for hours without a warrant or access to a lawyer.
  • Children Living in Apartment High Rise
    Apartment Hirise in South Shore neighborhood of Chicago
    Sep 30, 2025
    Children were zip-tied and detained in "dark vans" for hours of which some were separated from their parents and others completely naked after an ICE raid on an apartment building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. One agent was observed laughing and said "f#$k them kids" after a neighbor questioned their actions.
  • L. Vural Elibol
    Turkish journalist
    Legal U.S. Resident
    Federal Plaza Immigration Bureau in NYC
    Sep 30, 2025
    Turkish journalist L. Vural Elibol was thrown to the ground by ICE thugs outside an elevator in the Federal Plaza in NYC which was serious enough for him to be taken to the hospital with back and head injuries.
  • Dan Jones
    Hirise Apartment Tenant
    South Shore neighborhood of Chicago
    Sep 30, 2025
    Dan Jones, a resident of an apartment building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, had multiple items missing including his mattress and iPad and his clothes and shoes strewn on the floor after agents broke down his door when he was not home with no cause or reason to target him negligently and without the slightest care leaving it wide open and unprotected when they left.
  • Asal Rezaei
    CBS News Chicago reporter
    Broadview Ice Facility Near Chicago
    Sep 28, 2025
    CBS News Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei was assaulted with pepper balls in her open truck window on a public street by a masked ICE agent from around 50 feet away inside their facility's fenceline. The area was quiet and desolate, and she had turned to leave when the pepper ball struck her. White powder covered her face which was "on fire" for 10 minutes or so according to the victim who also vomited because of it. The town's police chief later announced a "criminal investigation into an allegedly unprovoked attack on a CBS Chicago TV news reporter's vehicle by a chemical munition."
  • Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
    Chicagoan father of two
    Undocumented
    Undocumented resident since 2007; married a U.S. resident; father of two young U.S. citizen boys
    No criminal history; described as "always polite and respectful"
    West Chicago suburb Franklin Park
    Sep 28, 2025
    Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez was shot and killed by a plain clothed ICE agent driving an unmarked car who claimed he was in danger but immediately afterwards described his injuries as "nothing major". Law enforcement experts who examined videos of the incident noted multiple reckless and unprofessional actions taken by the agents that went against standard training practices which contributed to this tragic death.
  • Cary Lopez Alvarado
    9-month-pregnant woman
    U.S. Citizen
    Los Angeles, CA
    Sep 23, 2025
    9-month-pregnant U.S. born citizen Cary Lopez Alvarado was racially profiled by ICE\CBP agents who said, "you're from Mexico, right?" while she was filming them arrested her boyfriend at a safe distance. Despite this, they handcuffed and detained her for over 8 hours with a chain around her belly and released her with cuts and bruises as she went into labor.
  • Chicago suburban police officers and reporters
    Sep 19, 2025
    Chicago suburban police officers and reporters were exposed to mace and tear gas used by ICE in an excessive use of force that escalated tensions with protesters outside a local facility and violated an agreement to give the local police department advance notice whenever chemical agents were going to be used.
  • George Umbenhauer
    CBS News Chicago photojournalist
    Sep 19, 2025
    CBS News Chicago photojournalist George Umbenhauer was hit with a pepper spray ball by ICE agents outside a suburban facility.
  • Rafie Shouhed
    Car Wash Owner
    U.S. Citizen
    Los Angeles Car Wash
    Sep 25, 2025
    U.S. citizen Rafie Shouhed was shoved to the ground in an excessive use of force by a masked ICE thug while trying to engage with them on their fascist raid on his car wash. He was further roughed up outside where agents were quick to throw him on the ground and during the process he describes three agents sitting on his back in a very painful way. And the abjectly evil fascists they are, his pleas about them hurting him were met with "You don't F with ICE." He suffered multiple broken ribs, deep bruising, a gruesome injury to his arm and damage to his brain from being slammed headfirst into the ground. He was detained for hours without his wife knowing where he was despite him yelling that he had proof he was a U.S. citizen in his wallet and five of his employees were also detained without looking at his claims of proof he had that his employees were authorized to be on the job. Mr. Shouhed filed a $50M lawsuit over the excessive use of force by the fascist ICE thugs.
  • George Retes
    Iraq War veteran
    U.S. Citizen
    Los Angeles ICE Roadblock
    Aug 18, 2025
    U.S. citizen and Iraq War veteran George Retes was driving to his job as a security guard where he was stopped at an ICE roadblock -- and despite not resisting or posing a threat, even backing up when told to -- ICE thugs broke his window, teargassed and pepper sprayed him and forced him to the ground where two of their degenerates put knees to his neck and back. Despite him having a valid ID, he was detained by ICE fascists for three days in an isolation cell and not allowed to shower despite the exposure to toxic chemicals. Additionally, he was denied access to a lawyer or a hearing with a judge and prevented from making phone calls. His family had no contact with him and no idea where he was and he missed his daughter's third birthday.
  • Daryn Herzberg
    Afghanistan War Veteran
    U.S. Citizen
    Portland, OR ICE facility
    Aug 13, 2025
    Afghanistan War Veteran Daryn Herzberg was violently tackled to the ground from behind by an agent while peacefully protesting outside an ICE facility to the side of their driveway. The incident resulted in "sharp pains when I lay on my left or right side" of which he "can’t get sleep very well." Three days later he was accosted again by four agents suffering a concussion, cuts, scrapes and bruises during which one agent said, "you’re not talking s#$t anymore, are you?" The excessive use of force was egregious enough to warrant a $150k lawsuit against DHS.
  • 15-year-old boy
    Aug 12, 2025
    A 15-year-old boy with significant speech and hearing disabilities was wrongfully handcuffed, detained and separated from his mother by border patrol agents for several minutes after they aggressively pointed their guns and a taser at him and his mother outside his high school. They ostensibly downplayed the incident as a case of mistaken identity because they are as inept and incompetent as they are thuggish. His mother characterized the aftermath of the traumatic incident as: "He says he has nightmares. He doesn't want to go to school. Every day I have to wake him up, and it's just so hard for him."
  • Mahdi Khanbabazadeh
    Doctor
    Green Card Applicant
    Has a current legal visa to work in the USA, a Green Card application in the final stages of approval and is married to a U.S. citizen
    Montessori Kindergarten, Beaverton, OR
    Jul 28, 2025
    Dr. Mahdi Khanbabazadeh had his car window smashed by masked ICE agents in unmarked vans with no warning, no warrant and without identifying themselves while he was dropping his grandson off at his Kindergarten school according to witnesses who also described children, parents and staff at the scene as terrified. He was taken to a facility 150 miles away instead of a local one close to his family and held for 3+ months.
  • Kids at Baseball Practice
    Jul 17, 2025
    Kids practicing with the esteemed Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy were accosted by ICE goons who harassed them with questions including "Where are you from? Where are your parents from?" and when the coach intervened and reminded the agents of how the Constitution works after recognizing their uniforms an agent glibly responded "Oh, another YouTube lawyer"
  • Matilde
    54-year-old tamale vendor
    North L.A. Suburb Pacoima
    Jun 19, 2025
    54-year-old Matilde, who sells tamales with a street permit and has lived undocumented in California for 29 years without incident, was traumatized by masked immigration agents who charged at her without asking questions or producing a warrant. One grabbed her from behind with such considerable force she cried out multiple times that she couldn't breathe. Despite her panicked pleas, the agent holding her actually pulled tighter continuing to apply excessive force until she lost consciousness. When she regained consciousness, the agents left her sitting there and prevented a bystander who identified herself as a nurse from attending to her. And when eventually taken to the hospital after a bystander -- not immigration agents -- called for an ambulance, it was found out she suffered a minor heart attack.
  • Brian Gavidia and coworker
    U.S. Citizen
    Montebello suburb of Los Angeles, CA
    Jun 14, 2025
    Two US citizens were racially profiled and assaulted by ICE agents at a tow yard they worked at despite not resisting, professing that they were US citizens.
    • Brian Gavidia stated politely that he was an "American" who was "East Los Angeles born and raised, ma'am"
    • But when he did not know what hospital,he was thrown into a gate and had his arm twisted
    • His friend also stated he was an American but was slammed to the floor bleeding from his forehead as an agent with an AR-15 leers at Brian
    • It wasn't until Brian's friend started filming that agents backed down and let them go after checking their papers after assaulting them
  • A man peacefully protesting
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 21, 2026
    A man peacefully protesting was thrown to the ground by three CBP agents and while pinned down defenseless with his hands held behind his back, another agent pepper sprayed him directly in the face.
  • Nasra Ahmed
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 14, 2026
    23-year-old Somali U.S. citizen Nasra Ahmed was shoved to the ground so hard she got a concussion and needed a large band-aid on her forehead. She was called a racial slur by an ICE agent as he put her in a car, and she was unjustly held for 2 days before being released without any charges.
  • 16-year-old high school
    Courthouse in Providence, RI
    Nov 21, 2025
    A 16-year-old high school student and judiciary intern was falsely detained, handcuffed, moved between two vehicles and was about to have been taken into ICE custody if a Superior Court judge hadn't intervened to vouch for him. They obstinately claimed it was a case of "mistaken identity" which is the excuse they use to justify racially profiling people.
  • 17-year-old teen
    U.S. Citizen
    Riverside County, CA
    Nov 10, 2025
    A 17-year-old US citizen teen was racially profiled, pulled over and held at gunpoint by a man outed as an off-duty ICE agent by the family's lawyer. He yelled "Freeze, police! Put the car in park right now!" and intimidated and threatened the boy for 10 minutes only letting him go when neighbors intervened.
  • Detainee not resisting
    ICE facility in Conroe, TX
    May 1, 2026
    66-year-old ICE chief investigator Charles Siringi assaulted a detainee without provocation which was deemed unnecessary by multiple witnesses. He interrupted a conversation the detainee was having with another agent, instructed him to "get him" before pulling him across the room, pushing him against a wall, choked him until he struggled to breathe and struck his head against a window which such force it left makes on the back of his neck.
  • Rafael Veraza
    his wife and 1-year-old daughter Arianna
    U.S. Citizen
    Nov 9, 2025
    Rafael Veraza was pepper sprayed directly in the face by an immigration agent while trying to drive safely away federal agents which also affected his 1-year-old daughter of which he described that she "was trying to open her eyes" and "struggling to breathe."
  • Sarah Shaw and her six-year-old son
    Legal U.S. Washington resident
    Washington State
    Legal U.S. Washington resident Sarah Shaw and her six-year-old son were detained for three weeks in a cramped facility despite having a valid work permit. She drove her eldest children to the international airport in Vancouver, Canada, on a trip to visit their grandparents and immediately came back to the U.S. But she was then detained on a minor technicality of which she mistakenly thought she was allowed to leave the U.S. and it was just a quick stop to accompany her children before returning.