Human Impact Project

Darian Maldonado Medina, a 28-year-old with valid Temporary Protected Status (TPS), was detained by ICE during a routine check-in at an immigration office in Tampa on September 5 and subsequently deported to Venezuela. Despite having court-ordered TPS protections, a pending family petition through his U.S. citizen mother, and meeting TPS re-registration deadlines, ICE deported him just weeks after his detention, ignoring legal protections that should have prevented his removal.

Federal ICE agents conducted an operation at 51st and Damen in Chicago on Friday, October 3rd at approximately 10:10 AM. Video footage captured agents threatening a community member and throwing a smoke bomb onto a vehicle. One community member was detained during the incident.

ICE and Border Patrol agents threatened to arrest a Chicago cyclist who was following and recording them. The incident was captured on video and shared by a Chicago Tribune journalist. Community members intervened with whistles, which appeared to cause the agents to back away from the cyclist.

Seven people were reportedly arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a home in northeast Madison Thursday morning, according to Latino advocacy group Voces de La Frontera. The organization would not provide information to the Cap Times about where those detained were taken and said the arrests were called in to Voces de La Frontera’s emergency hotline. the group’s statewide organizing director, Luis Velasquez, told the Cap Times his organization is working with the families of the people who were detained to gather more information.“We receive over 100 calls sometimes daily. We do not publish anything that has not been vetted,” Velasquez said Thursday. “We were able to vet it out and talk to family members directly affected by the situation.” The Madison Police Department initially declined to comment on the reported arrests on Thursday. Instead, Officer Anthony Vogel directed the Cap Times to request information on the case from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which also did not respond to multiple requests for information. On Friday, Madison Police Department spokesperson Korrie Rondorf told the Cap Times that the department was not made aware of the presence of ICE officers in Madison until after the operation took place and “after they were already gone from our community.” “We were made aware of their possible presence by trusted community partners, and we were later able to confirm it by contacting federal partners,” Rondorf wrote in a Friday email to the Cap Times.

Two teenage boys were chased through Chicago neighborhoods by unmarked vehicles with men in ski masks who asked for their IDs and immigration status. The incident occurred on a holiday when the boys were not skipping school. According to the post, this represents an increasing pattern of such encounters happening across Chicago and the country.

The only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown breaks silence: ‘I feel helpless’. Leqaa Kordia

A Syrian refugee with legal status was detained and subjected to humiliation by ICE agents at O'Hare International Airport. After community advocacy and legal review, he was released with no charges filed and no criminal record. The post emphasizes that the individual's documentation was in order and the detention was unjustified.

Please Help a Massage Worker with Cancer Who Is Detained by ICE My name is Y. I am 50 years old and came to the United States in 2023 to work in the massage industry. In China, I lost my only property due to my family's bankruptcy, leaving me homeless. Then, I was arrested by the police for petitioning and detained for several days. After these successive blows in my face, my health collapsed, and I was diagnosed with cancer. Overwhelmed by grief and anger, I left China. After arriving in the U.S., I encountered a fake lawyer who swindled my money and stole my identity to apply for numerous services without my knowledge. I receive dozens of verification texts daily. Though I was released from immigration detention on medical parole due to my cancer, my immigration relief was denied, and ICE placed me in expedited removal proceedings. I have no family nearby, feeling utterly isolated and helpless—until RCS helped me find a new attorney who kindly agreed to represent me pro bono. A while ago, after an immigration interview, I was detained by ICE and sent back to prison. I've now been incarcerated for two weeks. Life in prison is harsh—phone calls are expensive, and the money my friend gathered has run out. ICE agents have come three times to get me to sign papers, but I refuse to sign because I don't want to be deported. Without my medication, my health is deteriorating rapidly. Please help me survive in prison until my friends and lawyer secure my release on bail. I wish to return to New York and keep living with my friends.

Gregory Bovino, commander at large of the border force, led dozens of agents on a patrol in which they made immigration arrests. Bovino told WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell the agents were choosing people to arrest based partly on “how they look.” He contrasted the arrestees with Mitchell, who is white and middle-aged. Bovino brought his “Operation At Large” deportation campaign from California to Illinois in September. He made the comments about three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court said federal agents in the California case could continue stopping people based on factors including ethnicity and language. The court’s majority did not explain itself. Bovino later said WBEZ and the Sun-Times had taken his comments out of context. He called the report “grossly inaccurate.”

Miguel Angel Garcia Hernandez, 32, died after being disconnected from life support at Parkland Hospital following a shooting at an ICE detention center in Dallas, Texas on September 24. He was the second victim to die from the incident, having suffered at least eight gunshot wounds during the shooting.

An Instagram post by a public defender shows footage of what appears to be an ICE enforcement action in Aurora, Illinois. The post has generated significant commentary about the legality and conduct of the officers involved, with some commenters raising concerns about potential civil rights violations and Fourth Amendment issues.

Earlier today, Dallas community and members of the press gathered in front of Richardson City Hall to stand behind Br. Marwan Marouf and demand his immediate release. MLFA’s legal team, Legal Director Marium Uddin, Lee Merritt, Esq., and Kathryn Brady, Head of Immigration at MLFA, joined to lead the case and speak on behalf of the community. We are proud to lead the legal defense and legal strategy for Marwan Marouf, we will never stop pushing forward for justice. Follow us for the latest most accurate legal updates.

A 53-year-old woman was detained by ICE while obtaining meat for a stew. Her 21-year-old daughter Samantha, who had prepared for this possibility her entire life based on her mother's warnings, describes the incident. The case highlights the deportation of a long-term undocumented resident after three decades living in the United States.

Three members of an Albany Park family detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents Sunday in Millennium Park are now being held at O’Hare Airport, according to neighbors. Federal agents stopped Noemi Chavez; her husband, Jaime Ramirez; their 8-year-old daughter, Dasha Ramirez; and their 3-year-old son and took them away in a white van during a family outing Sunday at the park. Witnesses saw Dasha Ramirez crying and clutching a doll during the arrests. The incident was caught on video and shared widely on social media. Chavez told the Tribune the family made the outing because Dasha “really wanted to visit Millennium Park.” Dasha and her little brother were playing in the water at the Crown Fountain when federal agents approached their parents, according to the Tribune. Albany Park resident Lauren Rappold said she saw the photos and videos of the family being detained and recognized them immediately. Her son attends Grover Cleveland Elementary School and is in the same third-grade class as Dasha. Rappold shared the information in a Cleveland Elementary moms group and spoke with a neighbor who had been able to get in contact with Chavez via WhatsApp. The neighbor, who asked not to be identified, told Rappold that Chavez and her two children had been taken to O’Hare’s immigration customs enforcement area at Terminal 5. Chavez told the Tribune that federal officers declined to show her a warrant during the arrest. Border Protection did not respond to a request for comment. Rappold brought a bag with fresh clothes, diapers and medicine to O’Hare on Monday morning. Chavez confirmed she got the bag over WhatsApp and said she was told she will be kept at O’Hare until there are enough people to fill a plane to send to a detention center in Texas, Rappold said. ✍️ Full story by @Writtenbymollyd in our link in bio.📸 Provided

How ICE detainees are moved miles away from families and attorneys

Columbia [Missouri] man detained by ICE after trip to Europe, family seeks help. Owen Ramsingh

A Cuban immigrant and fifth-grade ESL teacher at Hart Elementary in Austin, Roberto Lopez Falcon has taught in the district for two years and won a ‘Teacher of Promise’ award last year. Roberto Lopez Falcon

Costa Rican Deported in Dire Condition Randall Gamboa Esquivel

A good samaritan and community watch member were brutally arrested while documenting a Border Patrol raid at a Home Depot, one was hospitalized while the other was detained for eight hours. By @izzymirez The full story: https://lataco.com/feds-injure-american-citizens-release

U.S. Citizens are getting arrested and detained by immigration authorities because of racist profiling. Our very own community member, Kenny Laynez, was one of those impacted. Read more about it in The New York Times, link in our bio. @nytimes “The roving patrols and interrogations have been a striking departure from the understanding that the Constitution allows citizens to remain silent and places limits on whom officers can question, hold and detain.” Kenny Laynez,

A 73-year old East Bay grandmother, Harjit Kaur, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials during a routine check-in this week. Today, her family and an expected 200 community members will stage a protest demanding her release.The protest will be held at 5 p.m. today (Friday, Sept. 12) at the intersection of Appian Way and San Pablo Dam Road in El Sobrante (below the El Sobrante Gurdwara).Kaur has lived in the East Bay for more than 30 years. She currently lives in Hercules but worked for two decades at a small business, Sari Palace, in Berkeley and regularly attended the El Sobrante Sikh Gurdwara. She was detained on Monday after ICE asked her to come to the San Francisco office to turn in additional paperwork. On Tuesday she was taken to a detention center in Bakersfield.“It’s just been a total nightmare. I don’t feel like this is real,” Manji Kaur, Harjit Kaur’s daughter-in-law, told Richmondside. Kaur has two -grandsons and three granddaughters.

Many men are still missing from Alligator Alcatraz. No one knows where they are except for Trump and his administration. Keep putting pressure on your Reps for answers. These missing men deserve to be found. randall gamboa

Ante el mutismo oficial, la definición de “desaparición forzada” se asoma como la única apta para describir lo sucedido. Así es como Naciones Unidas define ese término: “Cualquier privación de libertad que sea obra de agentes del Estado o por personas o grupos de personas que actúan con la autorización, el apoyo o la aquiescencia del Estado, seguida de la negativa a reconocer dicha privación de libertad o del ocultamiento de la suerte o el paradero de la persona desaparecida”. En consecuencia, el caso de José Osmín Santos, junto con los de Brandon Sigaran y William Martínez —también presuntamente deportados en los vuelos que llevaron a más de 250 venezolanos, acusados sin pruebas de ser pandilleros, a las celdas del Cecot, la infame cárcel de máxima seguridad del régimen de Nayib Bukele— han sido denunciados ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos como tal. ✒️ Nicholas Dale Leal 📌Lea la nota completa en el enlace de nuestra bio

For more than a month, federal immigration officials surveilled Bayron Rovidio Marin in a hospital bed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he lay recuperating from serious injuries to his leg after an encounter with agents at a Carson car wash they raided. He was never charged and his lawyers say he was shackled to his bed for several days and couldn’t speak privately with doctors or legal counsel.Over the weekend, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order requiring immigration officials to remove the guards watching over Bayron Rovidio Marin, take off the handcuffs and leave him unrestrained.Despite Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s insistence on holding the man, the federal judge said the government failed to provide any proof that he had “violated any law or regulation” or show that he was a “flight risk.”To date, ICE has not placed Rovidio Marin in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear or otherwise processed him, according to the order. The government told the court that they would determine the immigration status of Rovidio Marin once he was released from the hospital. His attorneys argued being indefinitely held without any charges is a clear constitutional violation.Read more at the link in bio.

Mission Local is following Miguel Lopez’s case — an example of an undocumented man who has lived the majority of his life in the United States but must now reckon with life in a country he barely knows. ⁠A court case on Tuesday revealed a possible path for Miguel to return to Livermore and his wife and three children and granddaughter. ⁠His deportation order was based on the Department of Homeland Security’s decision in 2014 to revoke his green card — an order he has continued to contest: His attorney argues that the 2014 decision violated his due process rights to review the decision. ⁠If granted, lawyers can begin presenting arguments about whether Lopez will receive a review of that 2014 decision to uphold the revocation of his green card. ⁠ Read more from Annika Hom and Sage Ríos Mace at the link in bio.

In April | married the love of my life, Barbara Marques. Right now I fear for her life. A week and a half ago she was taken by ICE at our properly scheduled green card meeting at the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles. At the end of what we were told was a successful meeting, the officer used the excuse of a broken copier to trick her into walking away from our lawyer. Once separated from her legal counsel, she was arrested. The reason for her detention was a missed court date from 2019 which my wife was never notified about. We have been working with lawyers since that time to correct the situation. The Adelanto detention center has actively been keeping my wife from correspondence with her lawyer by delaying in giving her documents that were mailed to the facility. Last night, she was taken from the Adelanto facility to an undisclosed destination despite our lawyer having filed a temporary restraining order to stop this from happening. They could be sending her anywhere in the world and we have no way of knowing. I’m asking for help in bringing to the attention of media and authorities these multiple lapses in due process and proper procedure through the unwarranted deportation of a woman whose legal marriage has been duly recognized as legitimate by immigration through the 1130 petition process.

ICE feels safe enough to continue to terrorize and now murder our communities. This is unacceptable. This happened in Chicago same place where ICE detained US CITIZENS. Who zip tied CHILDREN! Who terrorized a Black neighborhood just CAUSE THEY CAN! They are seeing the horrors they are excused from so they go do some mores. This is a FACIST state. They been doing this and continue to do it and no in broad day light for people to see and even nights so people can’t. They are seeing just how much more they can get away with until they have to use more force on us all. People ask what is a solution and I can’t even write what I wanna say! Cuz the solution is clear. We gotta remind the people the really enemy is not ur neighbor it is the people who protect these systems that are only for the 1%. The 1% need to get got by all means necessary. Their systems thrive cuz we let it. And this is why FTP and fuck you if u a pig got a loved one who a pig and don’t remind them that they work for a system that was slave patrol. That is meant to keep us guarded and watched at all times when the real criminals are those who sign their checks. The way if all pigs saw the common enemy and used their new skills to benefit the communities we would fucking. Thrive but pigs be hungry for money and will discredit their humanity for it. We see how they target our own people to police us. Wake up. Bruh. Wake up. Silverio Villegas González

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement Friday morning, according to a district email. "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps," the release states. Tap the link in our bio for the latest information.

The Trump administration has been sending immigrants to African nations like Ghana as part of their deportation operations, often with those aboard not even being from the continent — and Arizona is at the heart of that operation. A 16-seater jet that routinely flies from the Mesa Gateway Airport and flew 20 deportation flights in 2024 is already on track to surpass that number this year — with the majority of its flights to Africa happening in the past month, as the Trump administration has shifted its deportation strategy in response to court rulings limiting expediting deportations to Latin America. Arizona, and specifically Mesa Gateway Airport, plays a crucial role in ICE’s ramping up aerial deportation efforts. The airport hosts the agency’s headquarters for its “ICE Air” operations, which uses subcontractors and subleases to disguise deportation aircraft. And those aircraft are very well disguised. Learn more in the full story by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy via Arizona Mirror at phoenixnewtimes.com (link in bio).

LAPD is searching for Cynthia Raygoza, a 37-year-old woman who has been federally indicted for allegedly following an ICE agent home and posting his address on Instagram. The Justice Department alleges that Raygoza and two others used Instagram to livestream their pursuit of the agent from the Civic Center in Downtown Los Angeles to his residence on August 28, 2025. After arriving, DOJ claims they shouted to neighbors about the agent’s identity and publicly disclosed his address, encouraging viewers to “come on down.” Raygoza, who faces up to five years in prison if convicted, remains at large while her codefendants have been arrested and charged with conspiracy and doxxing a federal agent . Source: DOJ/ABCNews

Ann Salas laid out toys, clothes, furniture and appliances on her Skokie driveway Friday morning, selling everything in preparation for permanently leaving the United States.⁠ Some shoppers were happy to just give her cash, because her 49-year-old husband, who was brought here from Guatemala as a 5-year-old, was deported to that country last month. She plans to take their young son to Mexico to reunite with her husband, Antony “Tony” Salas, and live there as a family.⁠ A check of court records in Cook County and San Francisco County, California, where Antony Salas lived for a time, did not show any arrests for him.⁠ The family doesn’t plan on coming back, though Ann Salas and the couple’s 3-year-old son are U.S. citizens, and Antony Salas has lived in the U.S. for decades.⁠ Tap on the link in our bio to read more. ⁠

Help us find these people’s families!!! CALL TO ACTION TO DEFEND KIDNAPPED @hill_network VOLUNTEER!!! BRING THEM HOME!!!! ALTO A LAS REDADAS!!!!

EWS | Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a Foggy Bottom restaurant in a GW-owned building Wednesday afternoon, detaining and questioning several people, the University confirmed Friday. Officials said in a Federal Updates email Friday that agents detained “a number of individuals” from Circa, located across the street from the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro stop, but did not specify how many and said they have no information suggesting any are affiliated with GW. Friday’s announcement followed a Thursday post by the Immigrant Liberation Coalition at GW, which alleged that ICE pulled between six and 15 people from the restaurant during the raid, detaining some and checking immigration papers of others. York Van Nixon IV, Circa at Foggy Bottom’s senior general manager, declined to comment on the raid or answer questions about the incident and the number of employees ICE detained. A spokesperson from Circa Bistros, which operates Circa at Foggy Bottom, did not immediately return a request for comment on the raid. A University spokesperson declined to comment on when the University learned of the raid, why officials did not issue a GW Alert and whether ICE contacted GW — which owns the building Circa operates in — ahead of the raid.

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program

Federal agents held him in a hospital for 37 days, at times shackled to his bed, without charging him. Bayron Rovidio Marin

A 62-year-old Jamaican man who was deported by the U.S. to a country he’d never been to has been allowed to return to home. Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national with legal status in the United States, was one of five men the U.S. deported to the tiny kingdom of Eswatini in southern Africa this summer. He was held in a maximum-security prison there for two months with no charges and no access to lawyers. Etoria had not committed any crimes to warrant his deportation but he previously served time in prison for a 1996 murder conviction in New York. While incarcerated he earned a bachelor’s degree, completed parole, and began working at a men’s shelter while pursuing a masters degree. Despite staying out of trouble for years, ICE detained and deported him without explanation or contact with his attorneys, according to AP and the New York Times. The Trump administration deported him as part of their “third-country” deportation program, which was allowed by the Supreme Court. This program gives the U.S. authority to deport immigrants to other nations if their home countries “refused to take them back.” But Jamaica was willing to receive Orville Etoria! Last week, Eswatini officials sent Orville Etoria home to Jamaica where he holds a valid passport. He has reunited with his family.

State and local lawmakers, community advocates, and family spoke out in front of hundreds of Iowans in support of Jorge González, an Iowa City man abducted by immigration officers.

An Oregon firefighter is back home after spending nearly a month in immigration detention following his arrest while battling an active blaze, his legal team has confirmed. ICE released 23-year-old Rigoberto Hernandez following intervention from immigration attorneys and a federal lawsuit, according to court documents obtained by ABC News. Hernandez was detained on Aug. 27 while working to contain the Bear Gulch Fire, documents show. Hernandez's legal team says he has deep roots in the U.S., where he has lived since he was 4 years old, growing up between Oregon, Washington and California. Despite initiating the immigration process in 2018 through a U-visa application, he remains caught in extensive government processing delays, his legal team said.

ICE agent violently tackles woman to the ground in front of her two children after taking her husband at New York City immigration court. In the video you can hear the agent repeatedly saying “Adios.” Two masked agents had just grabbed her husband by his neck, put him in a chokehold and dragged him away in front of his family and children. ICE has once again been caught on camera violently kidnapping people in the halls of immigration court. There have been too many scenes like this. Mothers, fathers, laborers, students and community members have been ripped off the streets by masked “agents” who refuse to identify themselves. Photos @steffikeith

ICE is about to deport Mario Guevara, a journalist they have unlawfully detained for over 100 days as punishment for his reporting on immigration and law enforcement.

"Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Bronx high schooler arrested by federal immigration agents in May, was denied asylum and ordered to be deported back to Venezuela, his attorneys said Wednesday. His legal team from the New York Legal Assistance Group, or NYLAG, plans to appeal the decision made Tuesday by a Newark immigration judge and push for his release on bond. The appeal will stop the deportation process, and Dylan will remain detained in a Pennsylvania facility. 'It’s certainly not the outcome we were hoping for and not the outcome he deserves,'said Lauren Kostes, a NYLAG attorney, adding that evidence was 'overlooked and ignored.' Four months ago, Dylan showed up at his routine immigration court date at Manhattan’s 26 Federal Plaza and became the first known public school student to be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Today marks three months since my dear church members, Reza and Marjan, were detained after their video went viral around the world. Since then, they have been separated held in two different detention centers, in two different states, with no clear explanation and no end in sight. Their journey, like so many Iranian Christians, has been one of faith and courage, escaping persecution in Iran only to find new walls of uncertainty here in the United States. Her court date is set for October 15, but even that hangs in the balance dependent on whether the court can find a Farsi interpreter, or whether everyone involved shows up. If anything is missing, it will be postponed again. Who

HE NEEDS TO GO HOME': A 42-year-old Honduran citizen died in his New York jail cell while in ICE custody last week, leaving behind a daughter and former girlfriend in Lexington who are now fighting to bring his body home for burial. Santos Reyes-Bangegas, who went by Allen, was found dead after being in custody for less than a day. ICE says he had been deported at least four times previously and had lived in Kentucky in 2019 before being sent back to Honduras. The preliminary cause of death was found to be liver failure, and Reyes-Bangegas had a history of drinking. However, his former girlfriend Mary Diaz, who now has custody of his daughter Juana, questions the circumstances surrounding his death. The family learned of Reyes-Bangegas' death from another prisoner who was at the same jail, not from ICE or jail officials. The family wants to hold a funeral service in Kentucky before sending his body to Honduras, where the rest of his family lives. ICE says the death remains under investigation.

An ICE agent followed and detained a 50-year-old Indian immigrant woman while she was going to work in her neighborhood. The woman was handcuffed and placed in a squad car without explanation or indication of any crime committed. An ICE agent pointed a gun at her adult child who arrived with paperwork to assist the mother.

According to the post, masked Border Patrol officers tackled an innocent documented man to the ground in Chicago, slamming his head and crushing his back while attempting to detain him. The officers allegedly walked away without filing a report after realizing the man was documented. The post characterizes the incident as assault and police brutality.

ICE agents detained a legally present mother in an attempt to apprehend her husband, separating her from her 4-year-old child who was visibly distressed. The child was traumatized during the separation process. The mother was released without charges after 12 hours in custody.

Multiple reports and videos surfaced regarding an incident at Home Depot (600 S Harbor Blvd) in La Habra, California. The post alerts the community to stay aware and look out for one another regarding what appears to be an immigration enforcement action.

An Instagram post shows federal agents in an unmarked vehicle stopping an individual. The post's caption states 'Violated My Rights' and comments suggest concern about the enforcement methods used, with some asserting the person targeted was a U.S. citizen.