President Donald Trump says he is nominating Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single site, jettisoning a key piece of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $38-billion plan to rapidly expand detention capacity this year.

Senate Republicans are working toward passage of legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies.

The El Paso tent camp has seen at least three detainee deaths, a measles outbreak and nearly 50 detention standards violations in less than a year of operation.

Minnesota prosecutors say the agent lied about what led up to the shooting. He is now charged with four felonies and one misdemeanor.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversight.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become a focal point in the debate over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Sheriff Marian Brown said her office, which already cooperates with federal immigration authorities, has until Dec. 1 to act.

The Trump administration says a former executive at a private prison operator will serve as the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Policies guiding how deputies interact with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vary across Harris County, where each constable’s office operates independently under its own elected leadership.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Houston field office announced it arrested 277 people over a two-week period in April who the agency says were in the country without legal authorization and had prior criminal convictions.

Harris County leaders may soon take action to clarify how local law enforcement agencies interact with federal immigration authorities, as questions grow over consistency and community impact.

Things got heated at Tuesday’s Houston City Council meeting, a day after the State of Texas threatened to pull more than $110 million in public safety grants over the city’s recently passed ordinance limiting when the Houston Police Department can call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Houston Mayor John Whitmire says he is considering all options after receiving a letter from the State of Texas threatening to pull $110 million in state public safety grants from the city over its recently passed ordinance limiting when the Houston Police Department can call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

An appeals court has paused lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal officers' use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sign an emergency order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as Congress struggles to reach a deal to end the budget impasse that has jammed airports and left workers without paychecks.

Federal officials have confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are now operating inside U.S. airports to support security operations as staffing shortages continue to impact screening lines.

U.S. senators are discussing a proposal to end the Homeland Security budget stalemate by funding much of the department, including Transportation Security Administration airport workers who are going without pay.

After TSA security lines at major airports reached an all-time high, the Trump administration deployed ICE agents to help airlines and passengers.

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President Donald Trump's decision to replace Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gives him an opportunity to reset his mass deportation agenda — or to double down on a campaign promise.

ICE confirms Curtis Wright remains in custody at Houston airport; family disputes legality after decades as a lawful permanent resident.

Serious medical and mental health emergencies have been routine at the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility since its opening in August.

The Washington Post reported that a document was distributed to ICE staff indicating the agency was drafting a letter to potentially terminate the facility’s $1.2 billion contract.

A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally.

The Trump administration is ending Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests and left two U.S. citizens dead.

Sen. Rand Paul has challenged federal immigration officers over the shooting death of Alex Pretti and said the public has lost trust.

Federal authorities have denied trying to expedite an end to asylum claims for the family of a 5-year-old boy who was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area.

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Students at several Houston-area high schools are planning a student-led walkout on Friday, Feb. 6, to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies, according to information shared by students and community organizers.

As student-led protests tied to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity continue to spread across Texas and the Houston area, federal officials connected to the ICE Houston Field Office are pushing back against what they describe as an increase in violence and disruptions tied to recent demonstrations.

State and local officials are pushing back against federal plans to expand immigrant detention facilities.

The United States is already dominating the narrative two years before the Los Angeles Olympics and five days before the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Milan to protest the deployment of ICE agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics.

A Houston father is speaking out after his son, Keith Porter Jr., was shot and killed by an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on New Year’s Eve in Northridge, California.

Protesters across the U.S. shut down schools and stores during a nationwide strike to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

Texas Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia will call for immediate federal action Thursday in Houston, condemning ICE killings and pushing for legislation to restore local control over immigration enforcement.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says immigration officials have ceased their enhanced operations in the state.

A federal judge has issued a temporary order barring the removal of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota became another lightning rod for divisions on immigration under the Trump administration.

Federal immigration agents in Minnesota are accused of using a 5-year-old boy as "bait" to arrest his father.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills challenged federal immigration officials to provide arrest warrants, real-time numbers and information about detainees amid a sweeping enforcement operation, saying the state has been left in the dark as fear spreads in immigrant communities.

A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop is drawing national attention for urging clergy to prepare for a “new era of martyrdom.”.

Houston residents and community groups spoke to raise concerns about ICE enforcement practices, detentions without warrants, and the recent fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good.

A top Justice Department official says there is not currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.

Five years after video of George Floyd's killing on a Minneapolis street, video of another law enforcement action in the northern city is central to another American debate.

Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

The Minnesota Timberwolves have held a moment of silence before their game for Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon.

A day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good as she tried to drive away on a snowy Minneapolis street, tensions have remained high.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire sat down with 2 Investigates first on Wednesday morning to discuss reports that left Houstonians questioning whether the Houston Police Department played a role in referring thousands of individuals to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for arrests.

Washington, D.C., activists and local leaders say the law enforcement operation President Donald Trump launched four months ago with the goal of fighting crime has led to a crackdown on immigrants.

Illinois has a new law shielding immigrants from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares.

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from immigrant detention while she fights potential deportation.

Iranian officials say a second flight carrying deported Iranians has left the United States.

Protesters, journalists and faith leaders who sued over the aggressive tactics of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area are seeking to end their legal challenge.

Houston City Council Member Letitia Plummer is proposing a change to HPD’s general orders that would give officers discretion over when to contact immigration authorities. The Houston Police Union is rejecting the idea, saying officers are legally required to notify agencies about open warrants.

Some of the more than 300 South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid at Hyundai's sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia have returned to their U.S. jobs two months later.

Massachusetts man claims he lost consciousness during a struggle with immigration agents, however federal authorities accuse him of faking the seizure to prevent his wife’s arrest.

As federal agents ramp up an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an increasing number of elected officials in the Democratic stronghold are getting caught in the crosshairs.

Federal officers shot a man in the elbow and a deputy U.S. Marshal was hit in the hand with a ricochet bullet during an immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles.

Two suspects wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were arrested in a Houston online solicitation sting conducted by Precinct 4 Constables. A live press conference with additional details is scheduled for today.

Officials say many federal officers involved in immigration enforcement in Chicago have body cameras, but expanding their use requires more funding from Congress.

National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump can stay in the state and under federal control, but can’t be deployed to protect federal property or go on patrol for now, an appeals court ruled Saturday.

National Guard troops are patrolling in Memphis for the first time, as part of President Donald Trump’s federal task force.

A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland.

The Trump administration is offering migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport.

A U.S. citizen who is a construction worker in Alabama has filed a federal lawsuit after he says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks.

The 32-year-old Mexican citizen died after being taken off life support, his wife said in a written statement.

Federal prosecutors say three activists opposed to President Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Los Angeles have been indicted on charges of illegally “doxing” a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Two hundred members of the Oregon National Guard are being placed under federal control and deployed to protect immigration enforcement officers and government facilities.

Armed federal agents are patrolling Chicago’s downtown streets and President Donald Trump has called up 200 National Guard troops for deployment in Portland, Oregon.

President Donald Trump says he will send troops to Portland, Oregon.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities have varying security levels, with some heavily secured and others more exposed.

An immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area is troubling immigrants and activists because of what they say are increasingly aggressive tactics.

As encounters with federal immigration agents around Chicago increase, tactics used by activists and immigrant leaders to fight back are also escalating.

Portland, Oregon, says it will issue a land use violation notice to the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building.

President Donald Trump is intensifying immigration enforcement in sanctuary cities like Boston.

After Koreans detained in a historic raid on a Georgia Hyundai plant were sent home, lawyers and social workers say the nearly 200 non-Korean workers ensnared in the crackdown remain in legal limbo.

The Department of Homeland Security says an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest in a Chicago suburb by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them.

President Donald Trump has threatened sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests.

A company says detainees have started arriving at a former Tennessee prison that’s been turned into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations and other hardline immigration measures with funding passed by Congress will result in roughly 320,000 fewer people in the United States in ten years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

An immigration attorney says many South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia were brought in for highly specialized work that Americans aren't trained to perform.

As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are being held for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation’s labor force.

President Donald Trump's administration plans to send officers to Chicago for an immigration crackdown.

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights reach record highs, the airlines running the trips have taken steps to make it more difficult to track the planes used to carry shackled people across the country and around the world.

A coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.

Florida's corrections agency and ICE updated an agreement on handling federal immigration detainees, but they did it more than a month after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ opened.

Roland Mehrez Beainy, owner of Trump Burger in Houston, is facing deportation after overstaying his non-immigrant visitor visa, which expired on February 12, 2024.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Houston field office and FBI Houston announced Thursday the creation of a Homeland Security Task Force in Houston to target growing threats from transnational criminal organizations in Southeast Texas.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to detain far more people than before, tapping a legal authority to jail anyone who entered the country illegally.

As deportation threats loom larger, a Houston immigration attorney is working tirelessly to guide and protect families caught in this challenging climate.

During the month of June, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,361 Houston-area undocumented immigrants who were charged with or convicted of crimes after entering the United States.

Houston police say a man stole an undisclosed amount of money from a person after showing a badge, posing as an ICE agent.

The Los Angeles Dodgers organization says it asked federal immigration agents to leave the Dodger Stadium grounds after they arrived at a parking lot near one of the gates.

The owner of an Omaha food packaging company says his business has been unfairly hamstrung by Tuesday's raid carried out by federal immigration officials.

A day after multiple immigrants were detained at a Houston immigration court in southwest Houston on Tuesday, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are stationed outside another immigration court in the Greenspoint area.

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made multiple arrests at immigration court Tuesday in downtown Houston.

A high school volleyball team in Massachusetts is asking fans to wear white to their next match to show support for a teammate who has been detained by federal immigration authorities.

A staff reorganization is underway at the agency carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.