by Stephen Prager | Oct 28, 2025 | Article, ICE, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, Reprint, Trump
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Oct. 28, 2025. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
In an effort to further ratchet up its already brutal and indiscriminate mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration has begun a sweeping purge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership across US cities. The agency’s leaders are expected to be replaced with even more aggressive officials from the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection.
In what was dubbed a “midnight massacre,” the Washington Examiner reported that over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quietly relieved the ICE field office directors in five US cities—Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and San Diego—of their duties.
It is expected to be just the beginning of a broader overhaul, carried out “in hopes of netting more arrests and ratcheting up its flashy, high-profile deportation campaign.” Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin later reported that up to 12 of the agency’s 24 regional directors may be replaced, including those in El Paso, Seattle, Portland, and New Orleans.
The replacements are expected to come from the ranks of the US Border Patrol, which—to an even greater extent than ICE—has carried out indiscriminate mass arrests of immigrants, regardless of whether they have criminal records.
Many of the replacements are expected to be handpicked by Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol commander currently leading President Donald Trump’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago, where he’s faced widespread criticism for his ruthless tactics against protesters and for his apparent authorization of explicit racial profiling when carrying out arrests.
Under his watch, federal immigration enforcement carried out the infamous overnight raid on a South Shore apartment building earlier this month in which agents rappelled from Black Hawk helicopters and indiscriminately broke down residents’ doors, smashed furniture and belongings, and dragged dozens
by Zach Wendling | Oct 27, 2025 | Detention Centers, Donald Trump, ICE, immigration, Migrant Jails, Nebraska, News
A district court judge in southwest Nebraska will let the state move forward with Gov. Jim Pillen’s plans to convert a state prison into a detention center for migrants facing deportation proceedings. Red Willow County District Judge Patrick Heng, in a 17-page ruling Monday, ruled that Pillen and Rob Jeffreys, director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, did not violate the…
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by Michael Fox | Oct 27, 2025 | ICE, immigration, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, Stories of Resistance
ICE agents are detaining thousands of people a day from communities across the country. But people are resisting. And it’s having an impact. Millions have protested in recent weeks, from the #NoKings rally to demonstrations in front of immigration detention centers, and protests against ICE in their communities.
Neighbors in one Chicago suburb pushed back by yelling and honking car horns when ICE agents descended on their community. Elsewhere they’ve handed out thousands of whistles to neighbors at risk. And people are lifting up their cell phone cameras and their voices, and putting their bodies on the line to foil ICE raids in cities around the country.
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There’s this video that’s gone viral.
Two unidentified and masked ICE agents are trying to wrestle a man into their vehicle.
He’s doing his best not to go.
A crowd
by Sharon Zhang | Oct 27, 2025 | Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Israel, News, Palestine, State Department, UK
Immigration officials sparked outrage after they detained a British and Muslim commentator who frequently speaks out for Palestinian rights amid his speaking tour in the U.S. on Sunday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reports that Sami Hamdi was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday morning.
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by Katya Schwenk | Oct 26, 2025 | AI, ICE, immigration, News, Social Media, Surveillance
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has inked a new $5.7 million contract for AI-driven social media surveillance software, according to federal procurement records reviewed by The Lever. It’s the latest move in the agency’s ongoing quest to build out a social media surveillance dragnet. The five-year contract with government technology middleman Carahsoft Technology, made public in September…
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by Jessica Corbett | Oct 25, 2025 | Chicago, ICE, immigration, J.B. Pritzker, News, Stephen Miller
Just over nine months after President Donald Trump returned to office and pardoned his supporters who stormed the US Capitol, one of the Republican’s top aides suggested that federal law enforcement may arrest Democrats standing up to the White House’s anti-migrant agenda, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Asked about the administration’s willingness and federal authority to arrest the…
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