Deportation

What happens when federal immigration agents approach someone who has a valid tourist visa? For Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, a 28-year-old from Mexico, the answer ended in his death. He ran from ICE officers at a Florida gas station on July 14, 2026, sprinted into traffic, and was struck by a semi-truck.

The federal government called them violent criminals who tried to run down immigration agents with their cars. DHS posted their names and faces on social media. Then, one by one, the cases fell apart. A Guardian review of 26 DHS-promoted "vehicle attack" cases found only one assault conviction — and a clear pattern of accusations that collapsed under basic scrutiny.

ICE agents are reportedly arresting the relatives who show up to collect migrant children from federal shelters — lawyers say the children are being used as bait. At the same time, deportation orders in New York City more than doubled in June 2026, hitting a record high nationwide. These two stories together signal a sharp escalation in enforcement that touches families, sponsors, and even green card holders.

What if ICE arrests you on your way to visit your mother — and you have a green card? That is exactly what happened to Salah Sarsour, a Milwaukee mosque president and permanent resident of nearly three decades. He spent more than 80 days in federal immigration detention before a federal judge ordered his release, and the government is still trying to deport him.

You're driving to work on a Tuesday morning when police pull you over — and then hand you to ICE. That scenario is no longer rare. Federal immigration agents arrested 43,138 people in June 2026, the highest monthly total since President Trump took office, and the arrests are happening quietly: at jobs, outside homes, and during routine traffic stops.

A man detonated an incendiary device at the entrance of 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan on Monday morning, injuring four people. That building is where thousands of immigrants go every week for immigration court hearings and USCIS appointments. As of Monday afternoon, it was unclear whether those proceedings would continue as scheduled.

ICE officers fatally shot two men during traffic stops — six days apart — with no body-camera footage of either incident. Now, border czar Tom Homan says ICE officers will be required to wear body cameras during vehicle stops. For immigrants across the US, the back-to-back killings have raised urgent questions about what rights you have if ICE pulls you over.

A court created in 1996 sat completely empty for 30 years — no petitions, no hearings, nothing. That changed this week. The Trump administration just filed the first-ever case in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, and the judge already has questions about whether the government's case holds up.

You are driving to work before sunrise when an unmarked SUV begins following your car. That is exactly what happened to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Houston contractor and father, on July 7, 2026 — and he did not survive the encounter. Federal ICE agents shot and killed him in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood, then acknowledged he was not the person they were looking for.

You are driving to work, and suddenly federal agents are following your car. That is exactly what happened to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on July 8, 2026 — and he did not survive the stop. Six days later, Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was shot dead at an intersection in Biddeford, Maine, just outside the laundromat where he took his three-year-old daughter. Neither man was the intended target of the operation.

An ICE officer fatally shot 25-year-old Colombian immigrant Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, 2026. It was not an isolated incident — within the same week, another ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas, and two more ICE-related deaths followed. Now Democratic lawmakers are demanding investigations into how ICE screens and trains its officers.

An employee of the private company running an ICE detention center in Aurora, Colorado, shot and wounded a woman outside the facility on Thursday evening — after she had joined a protest there earlier that day. The suspect, Brandon Booth, works for Geo Group, the same company whose former executive now serves as acting ICE director. The shooting comes as the Aurora facility is already under scrutiny for a tuberculosis outbreak and reports of detainee mistreatment.

A single aircraft with tail number N837VA carried Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal's World Cup team to Dallas on July 4, 2026. That same plane has logged more than 1,580 ICE deportation flights — and it was on board that hundreds of Venezuelans were flown to El Salvador's Cecot prison in defiance of a federal judge's order. The story of one airplane exposes how mass deportation and global sports are sharing the same runway.

You have been watching the news about ICE raids and you are seriously thinking about leaving the US. At least 72,000 immigrants have already done it through the CBP Home app. But what the Trump administration calls "self-deportation" can permanently change your ability to come back — and most people don't find out until it's too late.

You got a call that your family member was taken to an ICE detention center — and you have no idea what happens next. On June 19, 2026, a 63-year-old man named Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez died in ICE custody at a detention facility in Laredo, Texas, just three days after his arrest. His cause of death is still pending an autopsy, and his case raises urgent questions about what detainees are entitled to — and what families can actually do.