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  • A detainee gestures through a lit window above a razor-wire fence at a detention centre

    Supreme court to hear case challenging Trump’s immigration detention policy

  • people watch a debate between two men on a television, an american flag and california state flag on opposite sides

    Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra clash in testy California governor’s race debate

  • US defense secretary Pete Hegseth at the marine base in Quantico, Virginia.

    Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech – as it happened

  • security camera footage shows a man standing at a hospital entrance

    Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody

  • a man in a gray track suit jacket speaks into a microphone while surrounded by people

    US immigration judge allows cold war-era law to deport Wisconsin mosque’s president

  • a man speaks on the phone while driving a motorized scooter

    Trump ally urges administration to ‘step back’ and rethink immigration agenda

  • officers in black uniforms stand in a row on tarmac in front of cars as a plane marked 'eastern' with an american flag logo behind them

    Burundi agrees to receive ‘third-country’ migrant deportees from US

  • Wilber Rafael Garces Perez winces, clutching a gunshot wound, during his arrest

    Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent in Texas charged with assaulting an officer

In depth

  • black and white photos of three men over text from ICE reports and a photo of a man and woman standing arm in arm at memorial site

    Three deaths, three states, 24 hours
    One day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge

  • Woman in miniskirts lined up in handcuffs behind their backs to be loaded into van by police, at night with blue light on wall of building.

    Gone in 90 seconds
    An ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever

  • A man, woman and boy smile in a photo framed with Chuck E Cheese

    ‘Why did they take my dad away?’
    This family of five was torn apart by ICE raids

Explainers and analysis

  • Masked men frogmarch a detained a person down a corridor

    By the numbers
    ICE arrested 50,000 people in July – quietly the biggest month in Trump’s second term

  • men in tactical gear stand outside a facility

    Essay
    Why do Latinos work for ICE?

  • Donald Trump in Oval Office

    The Guardian view on Trump’s immigration crackdown
    Who will have fewer rights next?

  • A young woman stand outside a hospital.

    ‘The panic is still there’
    ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers

Immigration crackdown tracker

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Opinion

  • Lok Darjee

    double quotation markI’m a refugee who reports on America’s ills. I still believe in its promise

    Lok Darjee
    Born in a camp in Nepal, I was welcomed to the United States as a child. Loving this country does not mean ignoring its contradictions
  • Moira Donegan

    double quotation markWhen Maga’s power fades, we cannot abandon those ICE killed

    Moira Donegan
    When this is all over, people will tell us to move on. But those who perpetrated this reign of terror must be held accountable

  • double quotation markWe are US civil rights lawyers. Trump’s policies have driven us to seek justice internationally

    Thomas Becker and Antonio Romanucci
  • Kenneth Roth

    double quotation markDonald Trump’s spying on leftwing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro

    Kenneth Roth

  • double quotation markDon’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps

    John Washington
  • Kenneth Roth

    double quotation markGeorge W Bush’s impunity led to Trump’s lawlessness

    Kenneth Roth

Video

  • Zohran Mamdani, the New York mayor, announced on 14 September that New York City, alongside several other major cities, will sue the Trump administration over a new rule that would make it more easy to deny green cards and visas to immigrants based on their need of public benefits

    New York
    Mamdani sues Trump administration over new immigration rule

    Video1:59
  • Over the past ten days, ICE officials have killed two immigrants in separate shootings in Texas and Maine. Kai Wright speaks with Guardian immigration reporter José Olivares about how their deaths are just the latest examples of the violence of President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and what accountability for them might look like.

    Podcast
    How ICE became so deadly

    Video43:27
  • Salgado’s family, including his wife and three sons, found out about his death from news reports

    'He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline'
    Son of man fatally shot by ICE speaks out

    Video1:33
  • In June 2025 Christian Cerna was arrested by ICE after being accused of punching an officer at a protest. The violent arrest was filmed and later posted to social media

    Interview
    How ICE turned its violent arrest of a US citizen into content

    Video42:36

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