The overwhelming majority of those deported had no criminal convictions, and at least 600 were children Iranian workers clean around a destroyed Khorasaniha synagogue in Tehran, Iran, on 7 April 2026. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA In late January, the Trump administration was planning a war in Iran, weighing possible airstrikes and staging aircraft carriers and other military ships in the region. Around that time, government officials deported 18 people to Iran, the las

Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on the Equality Act at the Capitol, April 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Rod Lamkey Jr., File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressman returned home last Fourth of July to startling stories in Southern California as immigration patrols swept through communities and one constituent told him about starting to carry a passport as proof of the right to be in the country. Rep. Mark Takano, whose American-born parents were

A volunteer escorts a 2-year-old American boy to be reunited in February with his mother, who is from Honduras and awaits deportation at the Dilley family detention center outside of San Antonio. Christopher Lee for ProPublica The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave the

Pomona-based Mexican American artist Jaime Muñoz designed the “ICE Stole Someone Here” signs popping up across the Inland Empire. Muñoz said the butterfly behind bars was a symbol for detained immigrants. (Katerina Portela / De Los) Outside Andrea Galván’s Ontario home, two young boys stop on their scooters to watch their neighbor create signs. Galván, an art consultant and activist, is accompanied in her driveway by a group of volunteers passing stencils and aerosol paints a

Thousands of congregations have sued over a policy change that opens the door for ICE raids at houses of worship. Members of the Minnesota National Guard stage in the parking lot outside the Bishop Henry Whipple federal building on February 13, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images When anti-ICE protesters disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota last month, the Trump administration was unequivocal: interfering with “ the right to pray in pea

Order comes after seven people in California City facility allege they were denied medications, food and sanitation The California City detention facility in Kern County on 10 July 2025. [Patrick T Fallon|AFP|Getty Images] The US government must provide detainees at a California immigration detention center with adequate medical care, access to attorneys, and “temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets”, a federal judge has ruled. The order came on Tuesday in response to

Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ+ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution. Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City. [Michael Nigro | Pacific Press| LightRocket via Getty Images] The Trump administration is quietly advancing immigration policies that attorneys and LGBTQ + advocates say could s

The 2026 Milano Cortino Winter Olympics are set to begin on February 6, with shock at the late news of ICE involvement. The potential presence of ICE agents at the February 6-22 Milano-Cortina Games has prompted huge debate in Italy [John Locher/AP Photo] Agents from the United States’ divisive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will help support US security operations for the Winter Olympic Games in Italy next month, a spokesperson told the AFP news agency. “At the Ol