U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online

ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ice-immigration-social-media-surveillance/?

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💼 Businesses push back on ICE raids

Photo illustration: Allie Carl/Axios. Photo: Brian van der Brug/Getty Images

Business groups are quietly urging the Trump administration to ease up on its plans for workplace immigration raids, but the White House is resisting, Axios' Brittany Gibson and Marc Caputo report. So far, the pace of workplace raids doesn't appear to have increased under President Trump compared to the Biden administration's efforts. But aggressive shows of enforcement are key to Trump's plans to crack down on illegal immigration. Why it matters: Just the threat of more raids has rattled several industries — such as construction and agriculture — that rely on immigrant labor, not all of it legal. "Rumors of raids are having more impact at this point than raids themselves," said Brian Turmail, vice president of public affairs and workforce for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). 🔎 By the numbers: Undocumented workers and those with expired work visas can be difficult to track across sectors of the economy, but some studies have given a glimpse of their presence. A recent Department of Agriculture study estimated that about 42% of America's farmworkers were undocumented from 2020 to 2022. About a quarter of construction workers across the U.S. may be undocumented, according to the National Immigration Forum, an immigration advocacy group. Keep reading.

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ICE deports Mexican national wanted in disappearance of 43 Mexican students

McALLEN, Texas ( Border Report ) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have sent back to Mexico a Mexican national wanted for kidnapping and organized crime in connection with the disappearance and abduction of 43 students in Mexico in 2014, the agency said Friday.

https://local.newsbreak.com/mcallen-tx/3846850185502-ice-deports-mexican-national-wanted-in-disappearance-of-43-mexican-students?

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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in ICE detention in Louisiana after first court hearing

Prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for now following a procedural hearing in New York, days after he was arrested by federal officials at his Columbia University residence in an attempt by the Trump administration to deport him.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/us/mahmoud-khalil-trump-columbia-university/index.html?

• 🎓 Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained at an ICE facility. A judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts to deport him, and said Khalil must be allowed to speak to his lawyer. Go deeper.

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💰 Scoop: ICE short $2 billion

Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The agency charged with carrying out President Trump's mass deportation promises has warned Congress it is short a whopping $2 billion for this fiscal year, Axios' Stef Kight and Brittany Gibson report. 💵 Why it matters: Congress would send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) an extra $500 million in the stop-gap spending bill that passed the House and is being debated in the Senate. But that won't come close to covering what the agency says it needs just to conduct day-to-day operations through September — let alone fulfilling Trump's plans of surging hiring, doubling ICE detention space, and adding many more planes for deportation flights. That funding would come in a separate bill if the Senate passes the continuing resolution today to avert a shutdown. Keep reading.