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The Washington Post’s Visual Forensics team analyzes surveillance video that shows ICE agents tailing a white work van and then approaching on foot in Houston, reconstructing the minutes before and after the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and illustrating how video analysis informs discussions about use of force in immigration enforcement.
Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum vowed to respond to the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant shot by a U.S. ICE officer during a traffic stop in Houston, with “legal measures” that would go beyond protests or diplomatic statements, though officials did not specify the steps. The move highlights rising U.S.-Mexico tensions over immigration enforcement and mistreatment concerns, as outrage spreads at home and abroad.
David Streever of Rochester, New York, filed a lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security officials alleging his First Amendment rights were violated after federal agents visited his home and tracked his whereabouts following a caustic email to acting ICE director Todd Lyons. The case highlights concerns about DHS tactics toward critics, while a DHS spokesperson says the agency investigates credible threats to employees.
In a late-June five-day operation, U.S. ICE arrested about 10,000 people, signaling a sharp uptick in deportation efforts under President Trump.
Protests outside a privately run immigration detention center in New Jersey intensified amid backlash to Trump-era policies, prompting state police deployment and a Newark curfew as officials moved to restore order; authorities later scaled back the security presence after arrests declined. The New Jersey attorney general filed a lawsuit against Geo Group for restricting health-inspection access, and a journalist was injured during clashes, highlighting ongoing tensions over immigration detention policies and local responses.
Christian Castro, an ICE agent charged in the shooting of an immigrant during Minneapolis’ crackdown, was arrested in Texas early Friday. Prosecutors say he faces multiple assault charges and falsely reporting a crime, and he is the first of two ICE officers charged with state crimes in the aftermath of the crackdown, highlighting growing state-level accountability efforts for immigration enforcement.
The House approved a bipartisan plan to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security through September, ending the longest U.S. government shutdown for the bulk of DHS after nearly 11 weeks of emergency funding. Immigration and Border Patrol funding would be addressed separately. President Trump urged lawmakers to act before emergency funds ran dry, and the measure passed largely without fanfare.
Senate Republicans unveiled a two-step plan to fund ICE and Border Patrol for the rest of Trump’s term without Democratic votes, part of a bid to reopen DHS and end the longest partial shutdown; House Republicans are cautious and seeking assurances on immigration priorities, while Democrats push for affordability measures.
Immigrant tax filings have declined as fear that the IRS will share data with ICE leads many immigrant clients to disengage from filing, a trend experts say could cost up to $479 billion in government revenue over the next decade.
As the partial government shutdown continues, DHS border czar Tom Homan said ICE agents deployed to airports may stay after TSA workers are paid, depending on whether TSA staff return to work.
President Trump proposed deploying ICE agents to airports to ease TSA lines, but Senate Democrats are demanding restraints on immigration agents and a DHS funding deal remains elusive, leaving wait times and lines unchanged despite the deployment.
ICE agents arrived at several U.S. airports to help staff a strained TSA, a deployment tied to the ongoing partial government shutdown after President Trump threatened to use ICE unless Democrats backed a funding deal; Democrats criticized the move as political theater and raised concerns Trump could target undocumented immigrants.
A Texas jury convicted most of nine defendants accused of aiding an alleged ‘antifa cell’ and plotting an attack outside an ICE detention facility, with several convicted on terrorism-support charges and one on attempted murder, in a landmark national case tied to a crackdown on left-wing protesters.
A former ICE instructor testified at a Capitol hearing that ICE dramatically cut vital training for new recruits and lied to Congress about it as the Trump administration seeks to expand mass deportations.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a memo directing federal immigration agents to arrest refugees who have not yet obtained green cards and detain them indefinitely for re-screening, a dramatic policy shift that reverses decades of protections and threatens tens of thousands who entered during the Biden administration; resettlement groups say the guidance upends protections and endangers refugee families.