Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

From record‑low apprehensions to nationwide raids targeting criminal aliens, cartel operatives, and violent foreign gangs, 2025 marked the most dramatic border‑security turnaround in modern U.S. history. President Donald Trump’s return to office triggered a sweeping enforcement shift that reshaped federal, state, and local operations from the Rio Grande to New York City.

Texas’s new immigration‑enforcement law hit the state like a shockwave this morning, wiping out any remaining sanctuary‑style defiance by ordering every county sheriff to partner with ICE formally. The mandatory 287(g) crackdown is designed to hard‑wire deportation cooperation into every jail from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande.

Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller, two of the Trump admin’s chief immigration enforcers, were seen dancing to “Ice Ice Baby” on New Year’s Eve.

President Donald Trump’s border crackdown delivered historic results in 2025, driving illegal crossings to levels unseen in decades. December ended with only 6,400 southwest apprehensions — and the full‑year total of 109,000 marks a dramatic reversal from the chaos inherited from former-President Joe Biden’s border crisis.

Comedian Shane Gilli is unhappy that the Department of Homeland Security is making meme-styled, funny videos for ICE.

A quiet rural stretch outside Houston erupted into chaos Saturday when Harris County deputies descended on a suspected cockfighting operation and found a gruesome scene: roughly 300 live birds, about 50 dead, and crowds of people fleeing as law enforcement locked down multiple adjoining properties packed with cages, fighting pits, and paraphernalia.

The New York Times warned that President Donald Trump’s deportation of illegal migrants will damage the nation’s decorative shrubs by forcing up Americans’ wages. 

Hope Walz, daughter of Minnesota governor and former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz, shared a Christmas message that included a rebuke of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), expressing solidarity with communities she says are being harmed by the agency’s actions.

Far-left Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) likened Jesus, Mary, and Joseph to illegal migrants in a Christmas Day post depicting a nativity scene being raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Two illegal aliens are accused of targeting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with a van on Wednesday in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Rep LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) said Delaney Hall ICE detention center should be shut down.

SCOTUS has ruled against Trump’s plans to federalize and send 300 Illinois National Guardsmen to the sanctuary city of Chicago.

There are now reportedly 101 fewer illegal alien truck drivers on California highways following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation.

An illegal alien is accused of murdering a 66-year-old cab driver in upstate New York, a sanctuary jurisdiction, after a dispute over cab fare.

The federal government is offering a $3,000 “Holiday Stipend” to encourage illegal immigrants to self-deport over Christmas. 

A Los Angeles jury returned a “not guilty” verdict in the case of a tow truck driver who was charged with theft for towing a government vehicle being used by ICE during a raid.

A Salvadoran illegal alien released by Fairfax County in defiance of an ICE detainer is now charged with murdering a man in Reston less than a day later—an avoidable killing, federal officials say, that happened only because local authorities refused to hand him over to immigration agents.

A Milwaukee jury has convicted the pro-migration judge who smuggled an illegal migrant out of her courtroom and away from waiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

ICE has launched a new national campaign titled Defend the Homeland aimed at bringing in thousands of new agents and officers by the end of the year.

Homeland Security officials are taking aim at Washington state sanctuary-supporting politicians after an illegal alien truck driver allegedly caused a multi-vehicle accident that killed an American citizen.

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations were “state-sanctioned violence.”

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara depicted Mary and Joseph as “outsiders,” comparable to illegal aliens, as he criticized the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons has rejected the viral claims made by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) alleging that ICE agents pulled over her son after he went to Target.

Former “Saturday Night Live” star Leslie Jones is demanding that all employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) be sent to prison because they “know” they “did wrong.”

Maine’s Democrat Governor Janet Mills has given her approval to a law that prevents police in her state from enforcing immigration laws or aiding federal law enforcement.

Federal prosecutors and Homeland Security officials vowed zero tolerance for violence against law enforcement after a criminal illegal alien from Mexico was sentenced to 20 years in prison for a brutal assault on an ICE officer in Wichita, Kansas. The sentence is the maximum penalty allowed for this charge under federal law.

The federal trial for a Wisconsin judge who is accused of helping an illegal alien escape the custody of ICE has begun in Milwaukee.

Democrat “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) claimed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pulled over her adult son on Saturday.

Federal immigration officers have arrested more than 400 illegal aliens — including convicted pedophiles, rapists, and violent offenders — during Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, a crackdown officials say was necessary after state and local sanctuary policies allowed dangerous criminals to roam free. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blasted Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for “failing to protect the people of Minnesota.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Friday that New York could lose $73 million in federal highway funds after a damning audit found more than half of the state’s immigrant commercial driver’s licenses were issued illegally. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blasted New York’s leadership, warning Governor Kathy Hochul to revoke the licenses or lose $73 million in highway funding.

A Democrat congresswoman from Illinois has formally called for an investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, citing allegations of unlawful conduct, misuse of federal funds, and violations of ethical and legal obligations in her role overseeing the Department of Homeland Security.

A Tennessee truck driver is dead after a Chinese national, who is not proficient in English and has a non-domiciled New York commercial driver’s license (CDL), allegedly crashed a tour bus — now federal transportation officials are investigating how he was cleared to drive.

Singer SZA has rebuked the White House for using one her songs in a pro-ICE, dismissing it as rage bait both “evil” and “boring.”

DHS officials announced the milestone of 10,000 criminal aliens being arrested in the sanctuary city of Los Angeles. These include many violent criminal aliens, including a woman who had 14 previous convictions. Others arrested include illegal aliens with charges or convictions for murder, drug dealing, sexual offenses, and other criminal offenses.

A judge is demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release famed illegal migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia from detention, pending his deportation. 

Assistant Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Director Tricia McLaughlin is flaming the Washington Post for leaving out of its reporting that the government will save $279 million by operating its own fleet of planes used to deport illegal migrants.