Victims of Abuse and Mistreatment by ICE and CBP Agents

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126 Victims of Abuse and Mistreatment by ICE and CBP Agents
  • Teenage son
    Minneapolis area ICE facility
    Jan 29, 2026
    A teenager named Anthony was trying to get needed, live saving heart medication to his detained 58-year-old father and was cruelly laughed at by ICE agents instead. According to Anthony, "I gave an ICE agent my dad's medicine, but I'm not sure if he got it because the ice agent just smirked at me. He laughed in my face." He had to return with lawyers and medical professionals to ensure his father received the medication.
  • Maher Tarabishi
    Legal U.S. Resident
    Arlington, TX
    Jan 29, 2026
    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 The father had legal authorization to live in the US for years which was revoked by Trump.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.
  • 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.
  • Alex Jeffrey Pretti
    37-year-old peaceful observer
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 24, 2026
    U.S. citizen Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot ten times at point blank range by an ICE agent killing him despite posing no threat and exerting no resistance.
    • An agent escalates the situation by oddly yelling "He has a gun!" which is legal in Minnesota. That legally permitted handgun was taken from him beforehand clearly in view of the person who shot him. video
    • Before he was murdered, Alex was trying to help a woman they just shoved. Despite not posing a threat, he was shoved to the ground and pepper sprayed in the face and roughed up by several agents.video
    • A physician witnessed the murder of Alex Pretti from his apartment window and gave testimony on what he saw. When he arrived, he noticed ICE agents just stood around "counting his bullet wounds" so he performed standard practices including checking for a pulse, moving him on his back, and doing CPR. During this, he noticed "at least 3 bullet wounds in his back" and two in the front.article
    • One agent was observed clapping seemingly actually celebrating after the man was shot and later mockingly said to people protesting his death, "boo hoo."article
  • Alexander Bonilla-Servin
    18-year-old professional painter
    U.S. Citizen
    Jan 23, 2026
    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.
  • 5-year-old autistic girl
    Massachusetts
    Jan 23, 2026
    A 5-year-old autistic girl was surrounded and detained by ICE goons without a warrant using her as bait to target her parents. When the mother said, "Give me my daughter back "an agent responded, "Nope, you’re going to have to come out here and get her." The child experienced high anxiety from the incident that required therapy.
  • 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.
  • Skye & Elizabeth
    U.S. Marine Corp veteran & passenger
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 17, 2026
    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.
  • Britain Rodriguez
    Peaceful Protestor
    Santa Ana, CA
    Jan 16, 2026
    31-year-old Britain Rodriguez was blinded in one eye after being struck in the face while peacefully protesting outside of an immigration building. He recalled, "I remember hitting the ground and feeling like my eye exploded in my head."
  • 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.
  • Family with six children
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 15, 2026
    A family was trying to escape with their children to a safer location after ICE agents tear gassed their neighborhood, but then agents fired flash-bang grenades and tear gas at their vehicle with six children inside. Their 6-month-old baby had to be hospitalized with breathing problems.
  • Ryan Ecklund
    Realtor
    U.S. Citizen
    Woodbury suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 14, 2026
    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.
  • Kaden Rummler
    21-year-old protester
    Peaceful Protestor
    Santa Ana, CA
    Jan 14, 2026
    21-year-old Kaden Rummler, who is 5'1" tall and weighs 102lbs, was shot directly in the face by a riot control projectile with such force it caused permanent blindness in one eye. Despite also suffering skull fractures and having a bloodied face, they dragged him by his shirt and handcuffed him on the ground.
  • Peaceful protestors
    Peaceful Protestor
    St Louis Park suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 13, 2026
    Peaceful observers were shot by rubber bullets for filming ICE agents abusing a woman detained for similarly filming them at a safe distance from her car.
  • Woman following ICE vehicles
    U.S. Citizen
    St Louis Park suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 13, 2026
    A woman was accosted, assaulted, threatened and mocked by ICE agents for merely filming them from her car at a safe distance.
    • Her phone was snatched from her hand by an ICE agent while she was recording him. He threatened, "have y’all not learned from the past couple of days" in reference to a woman who was recently shot and killed by an agent. Then he slammed her head into her car after which she was handcuffed and forced against an ICE truck.
    • The same agent then threatened her again with "Is this how you want to die, with a f#%king bullet in your skull?" He then grabbed her collar choking her to a point where she could not breathe.
    • Other agents showed up and forced her to the ground where one agent further intimidated by asking if she "learned her lesson." When she called him out for it, they laughed and said they were going to let her go but now changed their mind and left her crying and hyperventilating sitting on the ground in handcuffs for a while.
    • An ICE agent returned and pulled her up so forcefully that she fainted and was left flat down on the pavement without agents rendering any help. When she awoke, agents laughed and said "see, she's faking."
    • She then later fainted a second time and awoke on her side on the pavement this time with her handcuffs removed, no aid rendered again and free to go.
  • Teenage girl
    U.S. Citizen
    Mississippi
    Jan 13, 2026
    A U.S. citizen teenage girl was racially profiled, forcibly removed from a vehicle and handcuffed by agents without even asking for any documents and despite being a minor. When finally allowed to show proof of citizenship, agents cruelly "snatched the documents from her hand" as if angry they couldn't make an arrest.
  • Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Sigüenza
    Trained ICE Observers
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 13, 2026
    Trained observers had their car vents pepper sprayed and windows smashed by an ICE agent for documenting their actions and said of recently murdered Renee Good, "that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead." One agent ripped the whistle off Brandon Sigüenza's neck taunting that he's "gonna be needing this later." Other agents taunted and mocked Patty O’Keefe including calling her ugly. They were detained for 8 hours and released without charges.
  • Christina Rank
    Special needs teacher
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago, IL
    Jan 12, 2026
    Special needs teacher Christina Rank was rammed by ICE agents who then smashed her windows, pulled her out and falsely accused her of ramming them which is disputed by multiple witnesses and the fact the damage was to the passenger side of her vehicle.
  • Two Target employees
    U.S. Citizen
    Target store in Richfield suburb of Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 8, 2026
    Two U.S. citizen Target employees were assaulted by immigration agents, detained for no reason and then released.
    • There is video of an employee backing away into the store filming the officer and then being tackled
    • A 17-year-old employee was roughed up, taken in a vehicle and left at a Walmart 8 miles away where customers found him bleeding and sobbing from the traumatic experience
  • High school students and special ed teacher
    U.S. Citizen
    Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 8, 2026
    Minneapolis high school students were tear gassed by ICE\CBP agents who were "shouting at students, threatening students" and multiple witnesses reported people being shoved noting agents were "physical and aggressive." They detained a special ed teacher for dubious reasons and so he was later released.
  • Jose Martinez
    U.S. Citizen
    Cruise ship in Miami, FL
    Jan 7, 2026
    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.
  • 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."
  • 37-year-old woman
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 7, 2026
    A 37-year-old woman U.S. citizen was shot by an ICE agent at point blank range as she drove passed him clearly trying to leave the scene after apparently instructed to do so by other agents. She then crashed into two vehicles. Witness and video accounts additionally show the agent leaving the scene and ICE preventing immediate medical attention to the woman who waited to receive CPR from local police.
  • 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.
  • 16=year-old high school student
    Hartford, CT and Texas
    Dec 24, 2025
    A 16-year-old high school student on track for an early graduation was needlessly detained for 6 months at a facility in Texas despite living in Connecticut and despite adhering to routine check-ins with immigration. They threatened to immediately deport him with only a single phone call allowed in the middle of the night, but luckily, he had memorized the phone number to their lawyer who answered and prevented the illegal deportation.
  • Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry
    Legal U.S. Resident
    Tukwila suburb of Seattle, WA
    Dec 23, 2025
    Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry was unjustly detained for three months away from his U.S. citizen wife and two young children despite living in the U.S. legally for 25 years and serving in the U.S. Army. He also lost his vision due to a thyroid eye disease that wasn’t properly treated during detainment.
  • Viviana Corral
    mother of four
    U.S. Citizen
    Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL
    Dec 17, 2025
    Mother of four Viviana Corral was threatened with guns by two immigration agents with one saying, "you better not do it" for merely walking up to film them detaining a neighbor.
  • Teenage girl
    Chicago, IL
    Dec 17, 2025
    A teenage girl is left terrorized by overly aggressive questioning by immigration agents who are seen laughing afterwards.
  • Dec 15, 2025
    An ICE agent fired a taser into a crowd that was simply filming from a distance and taunted "Who wants more?"
  • Woman filming
    Peaceful Protestor
    Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
    Dec 12, 2025
    A woman was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent and dropping her phone for peacefully filming him from a safe distance.
  • 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.
  • Khalid Mohamed and Unassuming Woman
    Peaceful Protestor
    Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN
    Dec 9, 2025
    Peaceful protesters were excessively pepper sprayed from ICE vehicles as they were driving away. One officer got out of the car and pepper sprayed multiple people in the eyes and the ground including spraying a very unassuming person with their back turned inches from their face. One victim, Khalid Mohamed, attested, "I lost my voice. I was blind for about 30 minutes." Leading up to all this, agents randomly asked people on the street if they had IDs and proof of citizenship.
  • Susan Tincher
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Dec 9, 2025
    55-year-old U.S. citizen Susan Tincher was detained for 5 hours for passively protesting and recording an ICE raid of 8 unmarked vehicles from a safe distance. She was thrown to the ground, needlessly cuffed, shackled, threatened with pepper spray and had her wedding ring cut off.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jair Celis
    Youth soccer coach
    Green Card Holder
    Salt Lake City, UT
    Dec 2, 2025
    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.
  • Nayra Guzmán
    Mother of baby needing intensive care
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    Chicago, IL
    Dec 2, 2025
    U.S. work permit holder and 22-year-old asylum applicant Nayra Guzmán and her family were detained by ICE on their way to see her baby recovering at the neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital after an emergency Cesarean section of which she also suffered pain and complications. Despite their paperwork and circumstances, she was detained for 34 hours without receiving any medical evaluation. And, she was forced to spend the entire time in a room which was very cold with only a bench to lie on and no blankets or anything for sleep. Afterwards, she had complications producing breast milk for her baby. While being transferred by van, agents, aware of her condition and ignoring pleas from her brother, drove recklessly fast and over potholes in a way that was very painful for Nayra.
  • Chinese man and his son Yuanxin
    Queens, NY
    Dec 2, 2025
    A Chinese father was arrested and detained separately from his 6-year-old son after a routine immigration appointment in Queens of which nobody knows where the son is being kept in ICE custody and ICE did not provide any information on his detainment until a week later acknowledging he was in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement
  • Man passively protesting
    Peaceful Protestor
    St Paul, Minnesota
    Nov 29, 2025
    A peaceful protestor said something to an ICE agent wearing an American flag mask and in response the agent pushed him and pointed his assault rifle at him
  • Martha Ruiz
    56-year old diabetic
    Green Card Applicant
    Gary, Indiana
    Nov 29, 2025
    56-year old diabetic Martha Ruiz, who has no criminal history and has lived in the U.S. since the 90s on a religious visa, had agents bang on her door and then immediately broke it down before she had time to answer.
    • Despite her telling them she had a hurt arm, agents forced it behind her back and handcuffed her on the ground.
    • One of their dogs obviously bit her repeatedly on her back and legs leaving bite wounds still noticeable two weeks later. When she yelled out in pain and out of a longtime fear of dogs, they dismissed her with "our dog doesn’t bite."
    • They then dragged her up the stairs and threw her on the ground fracturing her ribs which she did not receive any medical attention for until she was released two weeks later.
    • When she asked to use the bathroom, they refused.
    • She was transferred from a nearby ICE facility in Broadview, Chicago where she shared an overcrowded room with 170 people with only one window, a single open bathroom with no privacy and where some had to sleep on the floor.
    • She was then transferred to an El Paso, TX ICE facility much further away after a couple days where they finally treated just the pain from her injuries but only with a single injection.
    • She was finally taken to a women's shelter where people were kind and welcoming but obstinately felt the need to shackle her the entire trip all the way up until she walked in the door.
    • When finally released, her son had to fly all the way out to El Paso to bring her home where she was given an ankle monitor -- something they could have done very easily from the beginning.
  • 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.
  • Woman passively protesting
    Payne-Phalen neighborhood of St Paul, MN
    Nov 25, 2025
    A woman in a cane passively and peacefully protesting an ICE operation was pepper sprayed in the face at point blank range for an excessively long time after which she was pushed away until she fell to the ground overcome. This violated a federal court order governing its use according to a former officer and use-of-force expert.
  • 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.
  • Christian Jimenez
    17-year-old high school student
    U.S. Citizen
    McMinnville high school, Oregon
    Nov 23, 2025
    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.
  • 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.
  • Dana Briggs
    Air Force veteran
    Peaceful Protestor
    Broadview ICE Facility near Chicago
    Nov 21, 2025
    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
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago, IL
    Nov 20, 2025
    Marimar Martinez & Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz were targeted by CBP agents who instigated an accident.
    • An agent in a vehicle yelled out "do something b#tch" after which another agent escalated and shot at her five times of which she was hospitalized with a bullet wound.
    • The shooting agent sadistically bragged afterwards, "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys" and then later in response to a news article on the incident, "Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes."
    • Both were initially charged with assault, but prosecutors ended up dropping all charges with prejudice as evidence showed it was CBP who were negligent.
    • In addition, the offending agent drove the vehicle 1000 miles away to Maine immediately afterwards which was against protocols so presumably was done to hinder investigations into his culpability.
  • Two women following ICE Vehicles
    U.S. Citizen
    Charlotte, NC
    Nov 18, 2025
    Two women U.S. citizens had their car windows dangerously smashed in by an AR-15 muzzle after which they were zip-tied, arrested and held in federal custody for hours before being released with just minor citations. Agents were unhappy with the women for merely honking their horns alerting people to ICE.
  • Fernando Vazquez
    18-year-old construction worker
    U.S. Citizen
    Cary, NC
    Nov 18, 2025
    18-year-old U.S. citizen Fernando Vazquez was racially profiled by CBJ agents who drove up to a job site in unmarked SUVs and approached him wearing masks and dark sunglasses and asked him "where are you from?" and further questioned him in Spanish. One agent ripped his AirPod out of his ear and when he tried to put it safely back in its case, the agent yelled "don't touch me" despite him not making any moves towards him. He had his North Carolina Real ID proving his citizenship, yet they handcuffed and drove him away with an agent getting angry to him further asserting details of being a citizen. Finally, they pulled into a parking lot, uncuffed him and threw his wallet and cards out the window which scattered to the ground. They did this instead of admitting their mistake, driving him back to where they took him from, personally handing him his wallet and apologizing for the inconvenience from their mistake which any respectful and decent law enforcement officer would do.
  • Jennifer
    33-year-old mother and her four children
    Queens, New York City
    Nov 18, 2025
    Jennifer had her apartment door busted in by immigration agents without showing a warrant, had her phone knocked out of her hands as she filmed and was dragged by her hair while holding her 2-year-old baby. One agent screamed, "put your fucking hands up, stupid" and another pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter. They were detained for an hour as agents asked them about a cousin who had not lived there for years.
  • Two women peacefully following ICE\CBP vehicles
    U.S. Citizen
    Charlotte, NC
    Nov 18, 2025
    Two women had their car window smashed, an assault rifle pointed directly at them and were detained for hours before being released with minor citations for merely exercising their 1st amendment rights and following ICE vehicles from a safe distance.
  • Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez
    Citizen journalist
    U.S. Citizen
    Charlotte, NC
    Nov 16, 2025
    U.S. citizen activist journalist Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez passively followed and filmed CBP agents from his van during which they targeted him in an unwarranted, unjustified and egregious escalation and excessive use of force after he did not agree to a "voluntary stop" by an agent and another agent made a gesture for him to leave after which he left. Despite leaving to deescalate the situation as instructed, CBP agents followed him driving recklessly including briefly into oncoming traffic and the CBP agent driving tried repeatedly to ram his van egged on by his fellow agents who described the pursuit as "fun" and "great." And in further disregard to public safety one exclaimed, "he’s gonna get shot is what’s gonna happen." When finally stopped, they smashed his window, arrested him and -- as was probably the plan all along to intimate people holding them accountable -- falsely charged him with assault. A judge summarily dropped the assault charges noting it was CBP agents who expressed an intent to hit the van.
  • Juanita Avila
    Permanent U.S. Resident
    Cottage Grove, OR
    Nov 6, 2025
    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."
  • 32-year-old father & his 1-year-old daughter
    U.S. Citizen
    Los Angeles Home Depot Parking Lot
    Nov 6, 2025
    A 32-year-old father and U.S. citizen was removed from his vehicle by masked immigration agents who then drove off in his car with his one-year-old daughter strapped in the back seat ignoring yelled warnings by a witness that "there's a baby in the back" (presumably on purpose). The family did not know where she was for a while and the baby's grandmother was made to wait for hours at an immigration center and provide proof of citizenship before they returned the baby.
  • Diana Santillana Galeano
    Day care center employee
    U.S. Work Permit Holder
    Daycare center in Roscoe Village neighborhood of Chicago, IL
    Nov 5, 2025
    Diana Santillana Galeano was wrestled from a daycare center in front of kids, picked up and slammed face first into the door as she was pushed outside afterwards witnesses saw, "dozens of parents and educators weeping." She was detained needlessly for a week despite having a legal work permit.
  • 23-year-old woman
    U.S. Citizen
    Gresham suburb of Portland, OR
    Nov 4, 2025
    A 23-year-old woman U.S. citizen taking photos of unmarked federal immigration vehicles had her car window broken, handcuffed and detained in a cell for 7 hours with chains around her legs She was denied a phone call to a lawyer with an obvious lie that the landlines were down and during her detention agents were "laughing like it was a joke."
  • Observers outside an ICE facility
    Peaceful Protestor
    San Pedro, CA
    Nov 1, 2025
    Multiple ICE & DHS goons wore Halloween masks in October while driving to work as a means to intimidate and mock protestors peacefully observing them.
    • A man in a "Chucky" mask rolled down his window and stared at protestors wanting to be seen. Chucky is a horror movie serial killer.
    • An agent in a "Momo" mask which is also associated with violence.
    • A Mr. Potato Head mask
    • An observer rightly noted "We expect some level of decorum from government officials" and found it "deeply disturbing" that they were "laughing as they were heading out."
  • 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.
  • Omar Huerta Cisneros
    Schizophrenic 54-year-old
    Green Card Holder
    Southwest Chicago
    Oct 31, 2025
    Schizophrenic 54-year-old Omar Huerta Cisneros, a Green Card holder since 1988, was detained by ICE and then dropped off somewhere else at random despite him obviously needing help upon which it took his family two weeks to find him because of his condition
  • Fernando Jaramillo-Solano
    Father of Two
    Asylum Applicant
    Durango, CO, ICE Facility
    Oct 29, 2025
    Asylum applicants Fernando Jaramillo-Solano, who worked three jobs and has no criminal history, and two of his children were detained at ICE facilities for a month before they were forced to deport back to Colombia due to the distress his children faced. ICE pulled them over while he while taking them to school in search of another person, and so they were detained without a warrant. His 12-year-old daughter said an ICE agent grabbed her breast while she was transported and experienced "acute psychological distress" during her captivity. And his 15-year-old son said when they arrived at the facility, they were treated badly, beaten and given nothing to eat or drink but potato chips and water for a day.
  • Franci Stagi
    5-foot-2 petite retiree
    U.S. Citizen,Peaceful Protestor
    Durango, CO, ICE Facility
    Oct 29, 2025
    57-year-old peaceful protestor Franci Stagi had her phone grabbed or knocked out of her hand by an ICE agent she was filming. When she approached him to ask for her phone he snapped and grabbed her by the hair, lifted her off the ground in a chokehold and pushed her to the ground with two other agents despite being a petite 5-foot-2. The actions were egregious enough for the local police chief to open an investigation into the agent's actions.
  • 67-year-old runner
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago
    Oct 29, 2025
    A 67-year-old runner and U.S. Citizen was dragged from his car, tackled, pinned down and knelt on by immigration agents in front of children attending a Halloween parade in such an excessive use of force that he suffered six broken ribs and internal bleeding of which many bystanders described as aggressive and unjustified.
  • Sixteen-year-old Arnoldo Bazan & his father
    U.S. Citizen
    Restaurant Depot store in Houston, TX
    Oct 28, 2025
    Sixteen-year-old U.S. citizen Arnoldo Bazan was beaten, choked and verbally attacked with racial slurs by plain clothed and masked ICE officers with such force he had to go to a children's trauma unit of a hospital suffering from "damage to his neck and spine that lasted for weeks"
    • When he cried out that he was underage, the agent started to choke him even more which was severe enough for a witness to yell out "you're fixing to break his neck."
    • An agent confiscated his phone after they noticed him filming presumably to hide incriminating evidence against them
    • He was detained for hours before being released without charges.
    • During the incident his father was also roughed up and kicked. Agents previously cut off the car the father was driving in with his father with two unmarked vehicles and recklessly escalated the situation by smashing the windows after which Arnulfo said he was scared and drove off briefly to escape before stopping again.
    • Arnoldo found his confiscated phone days later in a Walmart parking lot kiosk selling used phones confirming that an agent not only hid evidence but profited off of it articlevideo
    • Video from the later found phone shows agents violently ramming their vehicle four times before they stopped articlevideo
  • Ruben Morales and Jessi Olazaba
    Activist protestors
    U.S. Citizen
    Aurora, IL
    Oct 26, 2025
    U.S. Citizen activist protestors Ruben Morales and Jessi Olazaba were attacked by ICE agents despite turning around and backing up when told. They pepper sprayed Ruben Morales in the back and tackled him to the ground with such force it ripped his pants, bloodied his knees and scratched his throat and arm. Jessi Olazaba filmed the arrest and an agent knocked off her glasses, pepper sprayed her and shoved her to the ground where she hit the back of her head. Ruben Morales was released without charges and Jessi Olazaba was cited for impeding an arrest despite merely filming their actions from an appropriate distance.
  • Female protestor
    Peaceful Protestor
    Portland ICE facility
    Oct 26, 2025
    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
  • Gustavo Garcia Aguilar
    Legal U.S. Resident
    San Jose International Airport
    Oct 25, 2025
    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
    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.
  • Almedia California ICE Protestors
    Peaceful Protestor
    U.S. Coast Guard entrance in Alameda, CA
    Oct 24, 2025
    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
    Pastor at an Oakland Church
    Peaceful Protestor
    U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, CA
    Oct 24, 2025
    Reverend Jorge Bautista was shot in the face by a pepper ball at close range despite simply standing peacefully holding a protest sign and also dressed nicely in a suit. It was severe enough for him to be taken to an emergency room where he texted that he was "in a lot of pain."
  • Quinn Haberl
    Blind peaceful protestor
    Peaceful Protestor
    Portland, OR
    Oct 22, 2025
    Quinn Haberl,a 4-foot-6 blind man sitting outside an ICE facility peacefully protesting and clearly not impeding whatsoever, was grabbed, dragged and dropped on his head, had foot pressed on his back and neck and was cuffed for an hour before taken to the hospital with lots of bruising. Agents referred to Portland as a warzone unironically during the excessively violent arrest.
  • 14-year-old girl and her mother
    Wilder, ID horse race track
    Oct 21, 2025
    A 14-year-old girl was dragged out of her family truck by gunpoint during an ICE raid where she fell to the ground resulting in bruising on her ribcage and was then zip-tied. Her mother, Anabel Romero, was shoved to the ground and was kicked repeatedly resulting in bruising of her ribs and shoulder despite holding her hands empty in the air waiting for instruction. They also put a gun to her head and said they were going to "f%#king blow her head off." She was zip-tied as well and asked to go back to her children of which the agent laughed and said, "we're taking better care of them." They were detained for 3 hours despite telling them her social security number and date of birth and that she had her ID in their truck.
  • State Rep. Hoan Huynh
    U.S. Citizen
    Northwest Chicago
    Oct 21, 2025
    State Rep. Hoan Huynh's vehicle was surrounded by six federal immigration agents with one officer having their gun drawn who prevented him from following an unmarked vehicle which he had the legal right to do.
  • Leonardo Espartaco Martinez
    Immigration Rights Activist
    U.S. Citizen
    Oxnard, CA
    Oct 16, 2025
    Leonardo Espartaco Martinez, a U.S. citizen and immigration rights activist legally monitoring federal immigration agents on behalf of watchdog group VC Defensa, was rammed by an SUV driven by them and suffered injuries serious enough to require hospitalization after which he was detained and released without any charges filed.
  • Warren King
    19 year-old recent high school grad
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago neighborhood Walgreens
    Oct 15, 2025
    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.
  • 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).
  • Rueben Antonio Cruz
    Legal U.S. Resident
    Chicago
    Oct 13, 2025
    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.
  • John Cerrone
    Marine Corp veteran
    U.S. Citizen
    Broadview ICE facility near Chicago
    Oct 13, 2025
    US Marine veteran John Cerrone was violently tackled to the ground despite trying to deescalate by slowly pulling a protestor and also despite being on property adjacent to but not owned by ICE. He was detained for nine hours in a cell covered with blood, hair and mucus during which an agent boasted about shooting him in the head with rubber bullets yelling, "Where is that pussy!"
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Reverend David Black
    First Presbyterian Church of Chicago
    U.S. Citizen
    Chicago Broadview suburb
    Oct 9, 2025
    Reverend David Black, dressed in all black and peacefully protesting with his hands open in a non-threatening, way was shot in the head and body multiple times with pepper balls without any warning.
  • Peaceful protestor in an inflatable frog costume
    Peaceful Protestor
    Portland ICE Facility
    Oct 4, 2025
    A man dressed in an inflatable frog costume during a peaceful protest against ICE -- who obviously could not pose the slightest threat because of the sheer awkwardness of his satirical outfit -- was pepper sprayed directly in the air intake for the costume posing a severe medical risk.
  • Garcia Venegas
    U.S. Citizen
    Alabama construction site
    Oct 1, 2025
    U.S. citizen Garcia Venegas was racially profiled and detained on two separate occasions by ICE officers despite producing his REAL ID which they smeared as fake. On one occasion they screamed for him to "get on the fucking ground" and kept him in handcuffs for more than an hour and another incident they detained him and two other lawful U.S. citizens for 20-30 minutes.
  • Pertissue Fisher
    Apartment Resident
    U.S. Citizen
    Apartment building in South Shore neighborhood of Chicago
    Sep 30, 2025
    U.S. citizen Pertissue Fisher was handcuffed and detained for hours during an ICE raid on a South Shore apartment building in Chicago of which she noted it was the first time a gun was ever put in her face and said that "they just treated us like we were nothing."
  • Rodrick Johnson
    Blind Army veteran retiree
    U.S. Citizen
    South Shore neighborhood apartment complex
    Sep 30, 2025
    Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran retiree who recently went blind and completely innocent of any wrongdoings, had his door kicked in by federal in the middle of the night during an ICE raid on an apartment building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago and was detained in a van for hours without a warrant or access to a lawyer.
  • Children Living in Apartment High Rise
    Apartment Hirise in South Shore neighborhood of Chicago
    Sep 30, 2025
    Children were zip-tied and detained in "dark vans" for hours of which some were separated from their parents and others completely naked after an ICE raid on an apartment building in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. One agent was observed laughing and said "f#$k them kids" after a neighbor questioned their actions.
  • L. Vural Elibol
    Turkish journalist
    Legal U.S. Resident
    Federal Plaza Immigration Bureau in NYC
    Sep 30, 2025
    Turkish journalist L. Vural Elibol was thrown to the ground by ICE thugs outside an elevator in the Federal Plaza in NYC which was serious enough for him to be taken to the hospital with back and head injuries.
  • 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.
  • Kat Abughazaleh
    Congressional candidate
    Peaceful Protestor
    Sep 19, 2025
    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
    Sep 19, 2025
    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.
  • 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 $50M lawsuit over the excessive use of force by the fascist ICE thugs.
  • Javier Ramirez
    U.S. Citizen
    Montebello, CA tow yard
    Aug 19, 2025
    U.S. citizen Javier Ramirez was detained in a Montebello ICE raid and jailed for four days before finally seeing a judge despite repeatedly telling agents he was a citizen.
  • George Retes
    Iraq War veteran
    U.S. Citizen
    Los Angeles ICE Roadblock
    Aug 18, 2025
    U.S. citizen and Iraq War veteran George Retes was driving to his job as a security guard where he was stopped at an ICE roadblock -- and despite not resisting or posing a threat, even backing up when told to -- ICE thugs broke his window, teargassed and pepper sprayed him and forced him to the ground where two of their degenerates put knees to his neck and back. Despite him having a valid ID, he was detained by ICE fascists for three days in an isolation cell and not allowed to shower despite the exposure to toxic chemicals. Additionally, he was denied access to a lawyer or a hearing with a judge and prevented from making phone calls. His family had no contact with him and no idea where he was and he missed his daughter's third birthday.
  • Daryn Herzberg
    Afghanistan War Veteran
    U.S. Citizen
    Portland, OR ICE facility
    Aug 13, 2025
    Afghanistan War Veteran Daryn Herzberg was violently tackled to the ground from behind by an agent while peacefully protesting outside an ICE facility to the side of their driveway. The incident resulted in "sharp pains when I lay on my left or right side" of which he "can’t get sleep very well." Three days later he was accosted again by four agents suffering a concussion, cuts, scrapes and bruises during which one agent said, "you’re not talking s#$t anymore, are you?" The excessive use of force was egregious enough to warrant a $150k lawsuit against DHS.
  • 15-year-old boy
    Aug 12, 2025
    A 15-year-old boy with significant speech and hearing disabilities was wrongfully handcuffed, detained and separated from his mother by border patrol agents for several minutes after they aggressively pointed their guns and a taser at him and his mother outside his high school. They ostensibly downplayed the incident as a case of mistaken identity because they are as inept and incompetent as they are thuggish. His mother characterized the aftermath of the traumatic incident as: "He says he has nightmares. He doesn't want to go to school. Every day I have to wake him up, and it's just so hard for him."
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • Donna Hughes-Brown
    Green Card Holder
    O'Hare Internation Airport, Chicago and Kentucky ICE Facility
    Jul 29, 2025
    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.
  • 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."
  • 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"
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Brayan Ramos-Brito
    U.S. Citizen
    Jun 7, 2025
    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.
  • 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
  • Nasra Ahmed
    U.S. Citizen
    Minneapolis, MN
    Jan 14, 2026
    23-year-old Somali U.S. citizen Nasra Ahmed was shoved to the ground so hard she got a concussion and needed a large band-aid on her forehead. She was called a racial slur by an ICE agent as he put her in a car, and she was unjustly held for 2 days before being released without any charges.
  • 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.
  • Rafael Veraza
    his wife and 1-year-old daughter Arianna
    U.S. Citizen
    Nov 9, 2025
    Rafael Veraza was pepper sprayed directly in the face by an immigration agent while trying to drive safely away federal agents which also affected his 1-year-old daughter of which he described that she "was trying to open her eyes" and "struggling to breathe."
  • Sarah Shaw and her six-year-old son
    Legal U.S. Washington resident
    Washington State
    Legal U.S. Washington resident Sarah Shaw and her six-year-old son were detained for three weeks in a cramped facility despite having a valid work permit. She drove her eldest children to the international airport in Vancouver, Canada, on a trip to visit their grandparents and immediately came back to the U.S. But she was then detained on a minor technicality of which she mistakenly thought she was allowed to leave the U.S. and it was just a quick stop to accompany her children before returning.