ICE\CBP Abuse & Misconduct Tracker

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.

ICE denied a man bail to see his son before he died and later refused a request to attend the funeral. The father had legal authorization to live in the US for years which was revoked by Trump. He had no criminal record and checked in annually with immigration.

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.

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."

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.

An ICE agent tells a Minneapolis resident filming him, "You raise your voice? I'll erase your voice." The person filming asks him to clarify in disbelief, "Are you serious? You said, if I raise my voice, you'll erase my voice?" "Exactly. Yeah." is his response.

Two journalists from Italian public broadcaster Rae TV were threatened to quit filming or have their car windows broken by ICE goons in the aftermath of the Alex Pretti murder. This came out amid reports that the US planned to send ICE agents to Italy for the Winter Olympics.

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.

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.

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.

Activist Robert Held was shoved to the ground by an off-duty ICE goon who also attempted to take his phone while he was filming the agent filling his SUV with gas. The agent was charged with misdemeanor battery.

An 18-year-old US citizen has his vehicle clipped by recklessly driving ICE\CBP agents who then surrounded his car with guns drawn, broke his window and pulled him from the vehicle without little warning. They then used an extremely flimsy argument about a Reddit post in an attempt to detain him without bail which the judge summarily rejected.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Disabled U.S. Marine Corp veteran Skye and her friend Elizabeth were violently dragged from her car for merely observing ICE operations from her vehicle at a safe distance. Agents mocked her deep voice, repeatedly referred to her as "it" and laughed after an agent said, "Is it a guy or a girl?" They aggressively threatened to tase Elizabeth if she moved.

19-year-old Somali high school student Suban Noor was dragged from her car and then according to a witness was "cuffed and roughly swung with her hands tied behind her, crying out, before being shoved, barefoot, into the back of a vehicle." Her car and belongings were left abandoned with the door still open and visible on her passenger seat were credit and bank cards, her phone and backpack with her books from school. She was needlessly detained for 5 days before being released despite having just completed a Green Card application with her family.

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."

Four ICE agents had the gall to dine at family-owned Mexican restaurant El Tapatio exhibiting behavior witnessed described as frightening to staff. The same four ICE agents returned hours later and arrested three employees leaving when it closed.

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.

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.

Minneapolis City Council President Elliot Payne was shoved by an ICE agent despite not being in the way while observing and filming a PSA with colleagues.

U.S. citizen realtor Ryan Ecklund was put in a chokehold, forcibly removed from his car and thrown to the ground by ICE agents causing a black eye and scuffs on his face for merely following and recording them from a safe distance. He was unjustly detained for 9 hours before being released without charges.

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 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.

A woman was accosted, assaulted, threatened and mocked by ICE agents for merely filming them from her car at a safe distance.

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.

Multiple innocent people were accosted by immigration agents while they blocked traffic during which:

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 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.

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.

An ICE agent shoved a man to the ground who was peacefully filming their vehicle without any warning in an excessive use of force without any attempt to deescalate.

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."

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."

An ICE goon took a rose from a makeshift memorial to Renee Good who their fellow agent murdered and mockingly placed it in his lapel as he walked back and then gave it to a female agent after which they both laughed.

Two U.S. citizen Target employees were assaulted by immigration agents, detained for no reason and then released.

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.

U.S. citizen and Coast Guard veteran Jose Martinez had immigration agents aggressively bust into his cruise ship stateroom in an incident he described as "flashlights in our faces, screaming my name, barking commands, telling me to get out of bed, put me up against the wall and handcuffed me." He was needlessly detained for 1.5 hours after a weeklong cruise with without apology because he happened to have the same extremely common name of another man they were looking for.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

A teenage girl is left terrorized by overly aggressive questioning by immigration agents who are seen laughing afterwards.

ICE agents indiscriminately shot pepper spray into a crowd that was determined to not be breaking any laws by local law enforcement.

An ICE agent fired a taser into a crowd that was simply filming from a distance and taunted "Who wants more?"

A pregnant woman was held face down on the ground in the street with knees in her back and then suddenly dragged by one arm across the street ignoring repeated pleas from the crowd that "She is pregnant" and that "She can't breathe."

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.

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.

A woman was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent and dropping her phone for peacefully filming him from a safe distance.

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 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.

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!".

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.

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.

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.

34-year-old Ernesto Cuevas Enciso was needlessly detained by ICE without bond until a hearing 11 days later despite having only one non-violent misdemeanor on his record which was from over a decade ago. He's lived in U.S. since he was 3, is married to a U.S. citizen with 1-year-old daughter and has pending green card application.

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.

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 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.

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.

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."

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."

ICE agents entered the Hola Arepa Latin street food restaurant in south Minneapolis under the guise of looking for a woman who did not work there. They tried to intimidate staff into letting them into the private back area without a warrant including saying they "have the place surrounded". The owner and staff stood up to them, so they left but drove off recklessly going the wrong way down a one-way street.

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.

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.

Youth soccer coach Jair Celis was arrested at an immigration facility and detained for 2 weeks on a minor infraction rarely enforced and despite having a U.S. citizen wife, child and meeting for his last Green Card interview.

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.

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.

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

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.

Jaime Alberto Quintanilla-Chavez had his car window broken by an impatient ICE agent who said "I ain’t got time for this" and was then dragged from the car, handcuffed, had his face pushed across the concrete and was held down forcefully on his neck. Officers lacked a warrant and had no information on his immigration status in an instance of obvious racial profiling. The agent who shattered the window cut his hand during the process, but immigration agents charged the man they detained with assault on an officer which faces 20 years in prison. A republican appointed Federal Judge eventually dropped the charges which he considered "largely fictional," further stated that the "Government’s conduct was—and has been—outrageous" and described their behavior as a "break car windows first and ask questions later policy".

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

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.

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.

A woman married to U.S. Citizen who spent 20 years in the Marines was handcuffed and detained for 8 days during their final interview for her Green Card of which her immigration lawyer said he's never seen an arrest under her circumstances before and questioned why she needed to be detained at all.

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.

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.

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.

A U.S. citizen from Northwest Arkansas was arrested by police for failing to pay prior traffic fines but instead of getting processed and released which is the norm for scenarios like this, he was kept in jail overnight due to ICE falsely marking him to be held.

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.

Green Card applicant Ludmila, married to a U.S. citizen, was arrested and detained by three ICE agents during an appointment at an immigration office despite a precedent of not detaining people with pending Green Card applications especially when they're married. It was traumatizing enough for the person handling her application paperwork to cry along with Ludmila who suffered from severe anxiety and panic attacks during detainment.

Thomas Bilger, married to a U.S. citizen for a year, was handcuffed and detained by three masked men in bulletproof vests with guns during a meeting at an immigration center which should have been the final step in him gaining his Green Card. He was detained for overstaying a past visa despite past assurances it would not be an issue.

33-year-old Katie Paul was arrested by ICE agents at an immigration office of which her husband Paul said he "had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms." She was handcuffed and needlessly detained for 6 days despite reassurances from prior immigration officials that it was ok to stay in the United States as she was in the final stages of getting a green card and had a high-risk pregnancy due to her age. Her lawyer said she was "completely dumbfounded" as this had never happened before. She then had to file a lawsuit in federal court after authorities tried to deport her without a hearing. Paul had to take leave from his job to take care of their baby until the Green Card she was obviously going to get was finally approved, and she was released.

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.

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.

17-year-old high school student Christian Jimenez had his car window smashed and was detained for 5 hours at an ICE facility despite being a U.S. citizen of which officers responded to his assertation of such with "I don’t care." It appears they targeted him for simply filming or following them which he had done in the past.

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.

Air Force veteran Dana Briggs was pushed to the ground by agents without given time to move and despite passively protesting at the Broadview ICE facility. Obstinately, they charged HIM with assault instead, and it took two months for prosecutors to drop all charges with prejudice despite video clearly showing ICE lied and was the offender.

Marimar Martinez & Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz were targeted by CBP agents who instigated an accident.

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.

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 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.

An ICE employee caught in a police sting for soliciting a 17-year-old girl said "I'm ICE, boys" during his arrest obstinately believing his department's propensity to cover for their agents' criminal behavior might apply to him here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dozens of Border Patrol agents sadistically celebrated a terrorizing excessive use of force against a Chicago Mexican-American neighborhood by doing a photo-op at the Cloud Gate sculpture where one agent yelled, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'" and everyone else responded, "Little Village!"

A person recorded an ICE agent threatening them with a pistol

Cincinnati Children's chaplain Ayman Soliman was detained at an ICE facility for 73 days after the Trump administration made up a violation to attempt to revoke his asylum visa of the past ten years during which he worried he would get deported back to Egypt which he says would be a death sentence for him.

4'9" tall legal U.S. resident Juanita Avila was violently yanked from her minivan, thrown to the ground and had multiple agents knee her in the back while they pulled hard on her arms and handcuffed her. She had simply asked, "Why was I pulled over?" which instead of answering, the angrily escalated to violence as they knew the answer was racial profiling. She was detained for 30 minutes until let go despite having her U.S. Permanent Resident ID in her pocket. Afterwards she described feeling emotional trauma and pain "everywhere, like where they put their knees."

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.

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 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.

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."

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

Multiple ICE & DHS goons wore Halloween masks in October while driving to work as a means to intimidate and mock protestors peacefully observing them.

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.

39-year-old legal U.S. resident Marta Leiva was detained by ICE agents at Salt Lake City International Airport and held at a detention facility in Salt Lake City citing a minor paperwork error she was never properly informed of in 2020 and despite it not considered in 2024 when her visa was last renewed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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"

Legal U.S. resident Jacob Ira Azurin Vijandre, who has lived in the U.S. since 2001 and has a valid DACA status until May of 2026, was swarmed by six ICE vehicles and agents with guns drawn as he left his home for work and detained by ICE for social media posts critical of Republican policies.

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.

A female protestor was forcefully grabbed, tackled and arrested by multiple ICE agents after pulling her across an ICE-drawn line marking where she could legally protest

A beloved ice cream vendor of over 20 years with no criminal record who is married to a legal U.S. resident was whisked away by masked ICE agents, thrown into an unmarked vehicle and taken into custody without explanation and with his cart abandoned. His family did not know what happened to him for weeks and he was held for four months before he was granted a Green Card and released.

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.

A Venezuelan asylum seeker was ripped out of his car, handcuffed and quickly taken away in a vehicle in such a manner that a witness described it as a kidnapping and also noticed they left his distraught wife in the middle of the street.

Gustavo Garcia Aguilar, who has been a permanent legal U.S. resident since 1997 and traveled internationally for years without any problems, was detained for an entire six months waiting for paperwork to go through for something from his past record to be vacated.

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 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.

A 16-year-old refugee fleeing gang violence in Ecuador was detained after attending a routine immigration appointment and despite having "special immigration juvenile status."

Peaceful protestors outside a Coast Guard facility were told by ICE agents that they would assault them with their vehicles driving through them without stopping and then immediately proceeded to target them without giving them time to move out of the way shoving one protestor to the ground in the process. They also used their vehicles to target and intimidate protesters who were legally walking in a pedestrian crosswalk and ran over a man's foot.

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."

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.

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"

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,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.

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".

ICE agents regularly broke Illinois law by changing, obscuring or removing their license plates and one agent responded to a bystander filming that "You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day."

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'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 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.

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.

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.

ICE agent Scott Thomas Deiseroth was arrested and charged with DUI after failing a field sobriety test during which he asked a black officer if he was Haitian and said "it does" matter if he was.

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.

A woman merely asked a man detained by ICE if he was ok and was threatened with arrest by an agent during a raid on a car wash in Hamden, CT.

U.S. citizen and Chicago resident Warren King was tackled at a neighborhood Walgreens for merely trying to run from the chaotic scene unfolding due to an overwhelming and excessive use of force by ICE agents. A woman from a safe, non-threatening distance tells the officer he is her brother-in-law and a U.S. citizen but the officer yells at her to "get the f#$k back". ICE also ignored claims of citizenship from the young man and detained him in their vehicle for hours before releasing him without charges.

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.

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 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.

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).

Lawful U.S. resident and Chicagoan Rueben Antonio Cruz was fined $130 for not having his papers on him using a law that up until then had rarely been enforced. This was after agents detained him by driving in circles harassing him with interrogation like questions.

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!"

A man peacefully protesting was violently shoved hard to the ground by an immigration agent

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.

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.

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.

ICE agents surrounded two women in a small SUV waiting in a school pickup line and pulled them out even though they reportedly didn't have a warrant while terrified children and parents looked on.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

A man was choked in the neck and slammed to the ground by an ICE agent despite merely standing in a public area not interfering with a woman filming admonishing that, "he's not doing anything!" after which they threaten "You're next!"

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.

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.

Several questionable 911 calls were made by ICE agents at a Chicago suburban facility of which the town's police chief characterized as "disturbing" and "ridiculous" and presumably one of the incidents was intentionally done to harass two people from CBS News who were the only ones there filming.

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.”

Chicago suburban police officers were routinely "verbally abused" by ICE agents at a local facility including one calling an officer a "fascist" who "wasn't doing his job."

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.

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, 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 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.

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.

Freelance AP photojournalist Olga Fedorova was shoved to the ground by an ICE thug for merely taking photos of agents detaining two women inside a public elevator at Federal Plaza in NYC.

Photojournalist Dean Moses with amNewYork was grabbed by the arm and shoved by masked ICE agents after he merely followed them into a public elevator at Federal Plaza in NYC during which they screamed at him to "get the fuck out."

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.

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 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.

ICE illegally erected a fence on public property outside their Broadview suburban Chicago facility without a permit that blocked the fire department's access to the road causing a safety hazard and refused for weeks to remove it until the last minute of a court ordered deadline.

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.

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 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.

CBS News Chicago photojournalist George Umbenhauer was hit with a pepper spray ball by ICE agents outside a suburban facility.

Congressional candidate and peaceful protestor Kat Abughazaleh was violently carried and thrown to the pavement by an ICE agent much larger than her where she landed on her side with a loud thud

A middle-aged woman protestor who was clearly and obviously not a physical threat to ICE was thrown to the ground in an egregiously excessive use of force which they escalated so badly fellow agents had to intervene to stop one of their own from choking her.

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.

U.S. citizen Javier Ramirez was detained in a Montebello ICE raid and jailed for four days before finally seeing a judge despite repeatedly telling agents he was a citizen.

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.

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.

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."

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 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.

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.

Irish grandmother Donna Hughes-Brown, married to a U.S. citizen and Green Card Holder living in the U.S. for 37 years with 4 children and 5 grandchildren, was detained at O'Hare International Airport by immigration agents for a misdemeanor from more than a decade ago on the guise of writing bad checks only totaling around a mere $60. She was transferred to a facility in Kentucky away from her home in Missouri. A judge refused her bond hearing, and she remained in custody in legal limbo for more than four months facing possible deportation.

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.

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."

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 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"

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.

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.

Legal U.S. residents Sara Lopez Garcia and her mother were deported to Colombia despite having a work permit and a pending Green Card application. They detained her one day before her graduation and just weeks before her wedding.

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.

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.

U.S. citizen Brayan Ramos-Brito was forcefully shoved by a federal immigration agent without provocation during a legal protest outside a government building. He was charged with assaulting government officials, but a jury took just one hour to find him not guilty after video proved the agent was the aggressor.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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."

British journalist Sami Hamdi has his tourist Visa revoked without notice, arrested at SFO airport and then detained at an ICE facility for two weeks instead of being allowed to simply rebook a flight back to London that day in an obvious political motivated attack for a single comment that pales in comparison to common, every-day extremism from the right.

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.