ICE and CBP Violations of the Constitution Comprehensive List

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95 Examples of ICE\CBP Violating the Constitution
  • 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.
  • Makengo Nzeza
    Legal U.S. Resident
    Saco suburb of Portland, ME
    Jan 28, 2026
    Father of four Makengo Nzeza left the hospital after his wife just gave birth to their newest baby and was arrested and detained by ICE agents despite being granted legal asylum to live in the US 8 years ago. The reverend of their church said on their behalf he was "heartbroken" and "furious."
  • 5-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellano and her mother
    U.S. Citizen,Asylum Applicant
    Austin, TX
    Jan 27, 2026
    Five-year-old US citizen Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellano was detained for a week with her mother at a hotel 80 miles away from their family instead of an ICE facility in an apparent ploy to deport them without being able to call their family for 3 days and without access to a lawyer or a hearing before a judge the entire time which would have likely prevented their deportation.
  • Employee
    Hilton Homewood Suites
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    St. Louis Park neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 26, 2026
    An employee with a US legal work permit at a Minneapolis area hotel was lied to by ICE agents into believing he could report to work without incident upon which he was detained and immediately sent to a facility in Texas ignoring a court orders barring his transfer and ordering his release.
  • Fernando
    US Veteran
    U.S. Citizen
    Nebraska
    Jan 22, 2026
    US citizen and veteran Fernando had his Real ID questioned by ICE goons, and so he recited his name, rank, branch of service and SSN. That clapback must have struck a nerve as he was thrown to the ground and smothered by agents. They then threw his ID to the ground, flipped him off and drove away.
  • 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.
  • Gardener
    U.S. Citizen
    Long Beach, CA
    Jan 21, 2026
    A gardener with dual citizenship with the U.S. and Mexico had his valid citizenship card questioned and when he also asserted the hospital he was born at in Long Beach, the officer snapped that they'd investigate it "downtown" instead of just releasing him on the spot.
  • Twin Cities police officer
    U.S. Citizen
    Twin Cities, MN
    Jan 20, 2026
    A Twin Cities police officer was racially profiled and pulled over by ICE agents with guns drawn who demanded her paperwork. She responded by pulling out her phone to record their excessive use of force and had it knocked out of her hands. They eventually let her go when the found out she was an officer.
  • 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.
  • William Vermie
    U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran
    Whipple ICE Facility in Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 19, 2026
    U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran William Vermie was taken to the ground by multiple ICE goons for merely filming them from a public sidewalk. He was detained at the Whipple ICE facility in Minneapolis for 8 hours where he was denied a phone call and thus access to a lawyer his family hired.
  • Snowplow driver
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    St Paul, MN
    Jan 18, 2026
    A snowplow driver legally allowed to work in the U.S. was racially profiled and detained during the middle of winter. The director of his department said of this, "He was detained by ICE purely based on his country of origin, he had every federal authorization to be here which is something we check at the city of St. Paul."
  • Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales
    U.S. Citizen
    Elizabeth, New Jersey
    Jan 16, 2026
    Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was held at ICE facilities for 25 days away from her young son despite having extensive proof of her citizenship including a Maryland birth certificate and immunization records that were also vouched for by her lawyers. One of the facilities she was detained at, she was forced to sleep on the floor.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Edwin Godinez & Yair Alexander Napoles
    U.S. Citizen
    North Carolina
    Jan 7, 2026
    Two men, U.S. citizens, were racially profiled, pulled over for no reason and then assaulted by an ICE officer described by one victim as "he started just grabbing us, shaking us, and they actually did punch us in our abdomens."
  • Alma Bowman
    U.S. Citizen
    Marcon suburb of Atlanta, GA
    Dec 30, 2025
    Alma Bowman was arrested during a routine immigration appointment and needlessly detained for 8 months despite her father being a U.S. citizen at the time of her birth and having lived in Georgia for nearly 50 years since she was 10 years old. She had poor access to needed medical care while detained, and the ICE facility was overcrowded where some people had to sleep on the floor. She was finally released with an ankle monitor while she waits for certification of her U.S. citizenship by birthright.
  • 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.
  • Son of Rep. Ilhan Omar [D-MN]
    Minnesota
    Dec 14, 2025
    The son of Rep. Ilhan Omar [D-MN] was pulled over by ICE agents in an obvious case of racial profiling of which he was prepared for having to always have his passport on him.
  • BJuan Nevarez-Porras
    rother-in-law of country singer Frank Ray
    U.S. Work Permit Holder,Green Card Applicant
    El Paso, TX International Airport
    Dec 12, 2025
    The brother-in-law of country singer Frank Ray was detained at El Paso International airport on the way to visit their family in Nashville on Thanksgiving Day despite having a recently renewed work permit through 2030, a pending Green Card application, married to a U.S. citizen and living in the US for 20 years. He was then transferred to a facility in New Mexico far from home.
  • 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.
  • Mubashir
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Dec 10, 2025
    20-year-old Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Mubashir was slammed against a wall, put in a chokehold and handcuffed by two masked men and in the process is heard screaming in pain, "My hand!".
    • The ICE agents refused to look at digital and paper copies of his passport or to look him up based on his name and date of birth.
    • Then, they drove him around in circles pulling out maps feigning that they were lost.
    • When they arrived at a facility, they made him stand in the cold until he consented to a face scan which did not work, and they further refused requests for water, medical attention and to warm his hands.
    • Eventually, someone at the facility took the simple step of looking at his digital passport on his phone confirming both his citizenship and the egregiously racist and sadistic behavior of agents who arrested him.
    • And of course, when he asked to be taken back to where he was picked up, they told him to walk back in the cold and snow.
  • Rossell Callejas
    Auto mechanic
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    Kenner suburb of New Orleans
    Dec 9, 2025
    Father of two Rossell Callejas had six masked Border Patrol agents surround a vehicle he was a passenger in at the auto repair shop he worked at and was arrested despite having a valid work permit through 2029 and no criminal record.
  • 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.
  • Godfrey Wade
    U.S. Army veteran
    Atlanta, GA
    Dec 7, 2025
    U.S. Army veteran and grandfather Godfrey Wade, who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years and was in the process of applying for citizenship, was detained for 4 months without a hearing before a judge due to a minor paperwork issue. His first 12 days, he slept on a makeshift bed on the floor with 80 other people sharing a dirty bathroom with sewage water on the floor. He also wasn't assigned a case agent for 55 days.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Hispanic U.S. Navy Sailor
    U.S. Citizen
    Norfolk, VA
    Dec 3, 2025
    A Hispanic navy sailor in uniform drove off base and was immediately pulled over and detained by ICE for 90 minutes after they refused to accept his military ID as proof of citizenship and forced someone to bring his passport before releasing him.
  • 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.
  • Three men seeking refuge
    No More Deaths humanitarian camp on Arizona border
    Dec 2, 2025
    The No More Deaths in Arizona humanitarian camp that provides food and water to migrants in need in the desert was raided in an egregious violation of warrant laws. CBP entered under the guise of being in "hot pursuit" of someone despite no evidence of criminal behavior to justify it including waiting for over an hour before they entered after previously being denied entry onto the private property. They then detained three men receiving humanitarian aid.
  • 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.
  • Any Lucia Lopez Belloza
    College freshman
    Dreamer
    Boston Logan International Airport
    Nov 29, 2025
    College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, who has lived in the United States since she was 7 and thus is DACA eligible, was detained by immigration officials at Logan International Airport on a flight to visit family in Austin for Thanksgiving. She was quickly deported to Honduras by ICE despite having flown multiple times during the year without any issues and also despite having a court order barring her removal which was ignored. She was not informed of issues with her immigration record which also registered her case as resolved in 2017 and so was unable to file paperwork to address them. Her parents did not hear from her for two days while she was detained.
  • 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.
  • Enes Abak
    Auto body shop manager
    Asylum Applicant
    Chicago and El Paso, Texas
    Nov 28, 2025
    Kurdish asylum applicant Enes Abak was detained despite following proper immigration procedures and having a very strong case for asylum due to his home county of Turkey's long history of human rights abuses and genocide against Kurdish people. Even more so, the day afterwards his wife officially became a U.S. citizen -- which, probably without coincidence, would have made his case even stronger to apply for a marriage visa. He was also moved to a facility in El Paso, Texas 1500 miles away.
  • Elaine Miles
    Indigenous actor
    U.S. Citizen
    Pendleton, OR
    Nov 28, 2025
    Indigenous actor Elaine Miles was randomly stopped and detained while walking to a bus stop by four masked ICE agents who questioned her valid tribal papers saying they "looked fake" and "anyone can make that." They refused to call the phone number on the ID to verify, and when she attempted to call herself they tried to take her phone. It took a fifth agent to eventually intervene before they let her go. In addition, her son and uncle were also previously detained and had their tribal IDs question before being let go.
  • Kimberlyn Aguilar
    Mother with 8-month-old baby
    Legal U.S. Resident,Work Visa Applicant
    St Cloud, Minnesota
    Nov 26, 2025
    Kimberlyn Aguilar was detained by ICE during an immigration appointment for a work permit despite having special juvenile status to stay in the U.S. and also needing asylum from gangs that were harassing her in Honduras. Courts gave her special juvenile status to stay in the U.S. in after a court ordered her deportation for mistakenly missing a court date that she was unaware of. They still deported her and without her baby of which they had also promised they would be able stay together.
  • Driver & his passenger brother
    U.S. Citizen
    Phoenix, AZ
    Nov 25, 2025
    A man had his vehicle window smashed and brother, who is reportedly a U.S. citizen, dragged out of the passenger seat by an ICE agent for not getting out fast enough to their liking and despite not having a warrant and the agent falsely claiming, "I don’t need a warrant" with his handgun held drawn.
  • Rodney Taylor
    Barber
    Green Card Applicant,Dreamer
    Georgia
    Nov 21, 2025
    A beloved DACA eligible and Green Card Applicant barber who has lived in the U.S. for 40 years since coming as a child under a medical visa was detained for a year without bond despite being pardoned for a crime in 2010 due to his strong character vouched by many. He is a double amputee and struggles with many health issues that are worsened by the conditions during detainment. He got engaged 10 days before being detained, and his fiancée has trouble finding the time to visit going 2 months sometimes as the facility is 150 miles away. They have seven children and on a recent trip to visit him, the ICE facility for no good reason limited the number of people who could visit forcing some of his children to wait in the parking lot.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Willian Gimenez Gonzalez
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    Broadview ICE Facility near Chicago
    Nov 14, 2025
    Willian Gimenez Gonzalez, despite having a legal work permit and asylum application, was arrested without being told why or shown a warrant and detained for 7 weeks at a Michigan ICE facility ignoring a court order absolving him of attending an ICE appointment because it was 500 miles away in Memphis, TN. He described the food at the facility as "not very good" and was only allowed 30 minutes outside per day. They knew his full name and so everything points towards him being retaliated against for advocacy work he had been involved in with immigrant workers.
  • 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 Guerra Leon
    Car wash employee
    Legal U.S. Resident
    New York & Louisiana ICE Facility
    Nov 1, 2025
    18-year-old legal U.S. resident Carlos Guerra Leon was detained by ICE for nearly 3 months at a facility in Louisiana 1400 miles away from his family in Spring Valley, New York.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Silvia Reyna Mendoza
    Mother of 8 US Citizens
    Green Card Applicant
    Lived in the USA for 40 years and regularly checked in with immigration authorities about her pending green card application
    Kern County, California
    Oct 24, 2025
    Silvia Reyna Mendoza endured multiple sexual coercion attempts by ICE contractor Luis Ruiz according to a lawsuit that claimed he "engaged in severe and pervasive sexual harassment, including requesting sexual favors and sending her sexually explicit text messages and videos" saying things like "If you're good to me, I'll be good to you" which she eventually reported to his supervisor. However, the supervisor allegedly helped cover it up by deleting corroborating text messages and videos she showed them from her phone and nobody from immigration followed up with her claims. After her complaint, they started requiring her to wear an ankle monitor, then eventually detained her for weeks and deported her ignoring an emergency legal motion allowing her to stay.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Victor Cruz
    U.S. Work Visa Holder
    Hillsboro, OR
    Oct 22, 2025
    Legal U.S. resident and construction-company owner Victor Cruz was detained despite showing ICE his visa, driver’s license and work permit valid through 2029 of which agents said, "work permits don’t matter anymore".
  • 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.
  • Napoleon Andres Magaña & his stepfather Arturo Garcia Cabrera
    Gresham suburb of Portland, OR
    Oct 15, 2025
    A family had their apartment door broken into by ICE agents who didn't bother verifying that the person they were looking for did not live there.
    • They entered without a warrant and arrested the stepson Napoleon and his stepfather Arturo. Napolean was detained for 2 weeks at a Tacoma, WA, ICE facility 2.5 hours away.
    • Arturo was moved multiple times increasingly far away from Washington to Arizona, then Louisiana and finally Mississippi 2500 miles away where he was eventually released but without a gold chain gift from his mother and his cellphone.
    • It took him almost a week to get all the way back home being so far away and unable to easily communicate with ICE having taken his phone away.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Evelyn & two friends
    Chicago students
    U.S. Citizens
    Chicago
    Oct 11, 2025
    A petite 18-year-old Chicagoan woman and legal U.S. resident was violently thrown to the ground and kneed in the neck by a masked ICE agent more than twice her size. He did this despite her yelling out "I'm not resisting" and having three vehicles of agents as backup. She and her two friends were subsequently detained for hours without being able to call their parents knowing where they were until they were released without charges. The ICE agents apparently were unhappy the group was filming them earlier to hold them accountable-- obstinately for completely and utterly egregious acts exactly like this. After the incident became public, DHS propagandist Tricia McLaughlin smeared the 18-year-old woman as a criminal and laughably claimed the quite obviously federal immigration officers were Chicago PD instead.
  • 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.
  • Esteban Rios and Luisa Rodriguez
    Parents of two active-duty Marines
    Green Card Applicant
    Camp Pendleton, San Diego
    Oct 10, 2025
    The parents of two U.S. Marines were detained by ICE during a routine visit with them at Camp Pendleton, San Diego, despite having a current legal work visa, a pending green card application and having lived in the United States for more than 30 years. Their mother was detained for 3 weeks and their father was deported.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Juan Rivas
    Day laborer
    Green Card Holder
    Home Depot parking lot outside Los Angeles, CA
    Sep 23, 2025
    Legal Green Card holder Juan Rivas had his immigration papers in his pockets ready to show immigration agents of which he said, "I was ready to show them when they started hitting me and threw me on the floor," in an egregious case of racial profiling at a Home Depot parking lot.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • George and Esmeralda Doilez
    U.S. Citizen
    Aug 11, 2025
    U.S. citizens George and Esmeralda Doilez regret voting for Donald Trump after they were racially profiled, detained and searched for 30 minutes by "goons in masks in unmarked vehicles chasing down American citizens just because of the color of their skin." They further ranted on the agents' wearing masks saying, "Who does that? Criminals do that. Robbers and thieves do that. Kidnappers do that."
  • Chaofeng Ge
    Queens, NY
    Aug 8, 2025
    Chaofeng Ge was found dead by hanging in the showers at a Queens ICE facility which was ruled a suicide attributed to mental abuse and neglect due to poor conditions during detainment; however, further reports showed that his hands and feet were also bound with no explanations of how he could have hung himself.
  • Yeonsoo Go
    20-year-old Purdue University Student
    Legal U.S. Resident
    New York City
    Aug 5, 2025
    20-year-old legal U.S. resident and Purdue University student Yeonsoo Go was handcuffed and then detained for several days in a Louisiana facility 1400 miles from New York City where she lived with her parents after a routine hearing to extend her legal Visa.
  • 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.
  • Kenny Laynez
    high school senior
    U.S. Citizen
    Jul 25, 2025
    U.S. citizen and high school senior Kenny Laynez was told by Border Patrol agents that "You got no rights here. You're an amigo, brother" during a traffic stop in which he said the occupants were not resisting. However, the agents escalated things tasing one passenger in the stomach causing him to fall and spasm and grabbing another by the hair & neck. A hidden smartphone also recorded one agent saying "They're starting to resist more. We're gonna end up shooting some of them." Which was followed with a reply from another who said, "Just remember, you can smell that too with a $30,000 bonus."
  • Tae Heung "Will" Kim
    PhD Student
    Greencard Holder
    San Francisco International Airport
    Jul 21, 2025
    A permanent US resident with a Green Card for 35 years since he was 5 and working on a PhD researching a vaccine for Lyme disease was detained for a week by CBP without access to an attorney and then detained for more than a month at an ICE facility for a minor marijuana charge back in 2011 that was supposed to have been expunged from his record.
  • 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"
  • Zia S.
    Afghani Interpreter for U.S. Forces
    Asylum Applicant
    Hartford, CT
    Jul 16, 2025
    Afghani Interpreter Zia S. -- who risked his life for U.S. forces in Afghanistan over a five-year period -- was detained by ICE at a routine immigration appointment after the Trump administration disgracefully revoked his two-year special temporary legal status a year early while he was still in the process of getting a green card. They issued an order to expedite his deportation in a process that would preclude a hearing in immigration court and force him to return to Afghanistan where the threat to his life would be severe. With pressure from his lawyer and two U.S. Senators, the order to expedite his deportation was cancelled but not after three weeks of angst endured by him and his family. Zia was held at the ICE facility for three months away from his wife and five children. He was not allowed outside once during his detainment which was especially difficult for him as he routinely enjoyed hour long walks in nature with his wife. Most of his time was spent in a two-person room with a small window that he was allowed to leave only three times a day to visit common spaces and watch TV.
  • Mahmoud Khalil
    Palestinian Activist
    Green Card Holder
    New York City & Louisiana Ice Facility
    Jul 11, 2025
    30-year-old Green Card holder Mahmoud Khalil was detained by ICE for 100 days at a facility 1000 miles away from his family in New York City without charges for online posts critical of Republican policies during which he also missed the birth of his son.
  • 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
  • Yessenia Ruano
    Teacher's Aide
    Asylum Applicant
    Milwaukee, WI
    May 15, 2025
    Yessenia Ruano spent 14 years building a life in the U.S. after fleeing human trafficking in El Salvador, raising two U.S.-citizen children, teaching at Milwaukee’s bilingual public school and serving as a valued community member. Facing impending detention and deportation by ICE, she made the impossible decision to self-deport back to El Salvador with her children.
  • Apr 25, 2025
    U.S. citizen Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was racially profiled and detained twice on holds by ICE once for 48 hours and another for 24 hours of which he was still detained despite a judge confirming he had a valid official birth certificate
  • Evenezer Cortez Martinez
    Dreamer
    Kansas City & DFW Airport
    Apr 8, 2025
    40-year-old Evenezer Cortez Martinez was needlessly deported to Mexico after returning from a flight into DFW despite being a DACA recipient living in the U.S. since he was 4 years old and also despite being granted an Advance Parole giving permission to travel to Mexico and safely return. A few days later he was allowed to legally return and had his DACA extended further which is additional proof he should never have been deported in the first place.
  • Peter Yazzie
    Iron worker
    U.S. Citizen
    Arizona
    Jan 12, 2026
    Navajo man Peter Yazzie was zip-tied and detained for four hours while trying to start his workday after his valid papers were questioned including a Certificate of Indian Blood and birth certificate.
  • Jose Roberto “Beto” Ramirez
    U.S. Citizen
    HyVee grocery store parking lot in Minneapolis, MN
    U.S. citizen Jose Roberto “Beto” Ramirez was punched in the face while complying with immigration agents' racist request for facial recognition after which other agents joined in roughing him up further. His sweater was torn, and he suffered bruises on the back of his neck and also wrists from handcuffs being overly tight. He was held outside in the cold for 3 hours with no access to food, water or a toilet.
  • Somali Uber driver
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport, MN
    A Somali Uber driver films video as he is racially profiled and harassed by CBP agents during which an immigration agent makes light of the unlawful killing of a 37-year-old mother of three earlier that day as "I don’t know why they do the head, man" after which CBJ Commander Greg Bovino and other agents laugh and smile.
  • 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.
  • Willy Aceituno
    U.S. Citizen
    Charlotte, NC
    Nov 15, 2025
    US citizen Willy Aceituno was racially profiled and stopped twice by Border Patrol goons with the second time having his car window needlessly smashed and thrown to the ground despite yelling "I'm an American citizen!" He was taken in a CBP vehicle, only allowed to leave because he had documents on him proving his citizenship and had a long walk back to his vehicle.