{"id":7582,"date":"2026-07-15T19:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7582"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:38:35","slug":"whats-happening-with-ice-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7582","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s happening with ICE right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three deaths in a week have launched an international outcry and roiled a Senate race.<\/strong><\/p>

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Protesters gather near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Maine this week after the shooting death of a Colombian migrant in the state. (Robert F. Bukaty\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump is ramping up his mass deportations again, surging immigration agents into communities across America. Within the past week, three people have been killed, leading to an international outcry, roiling a key Senate race and raising concern among civil liberties experts that armed immigration agents continue to operate in America with impunity.<\/p>\n

Amid the violence and chaos, Trump is defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carrying out his deportations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done,\u201d Trump said<\/a> in a social media post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a federal immigration agent fatally shot a man in Maine<\/a> as he drove away from authorities. He was a 25-year-old Colombian father<\/a> who had permits to work in the United States.<\/p>\n

Six days earlier, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico was fatally shot<\/a> by an ICE officer as he drove his work van in Houston.<\/p>\n

Both men were in cars, and no ICE agents were wearing body cameras. Details are murky; video pieced together<\/a> from security cameras in Houston by The Washington Post shows agents in unmarked cars following the work van, at times aggressively.<\/p>\n

A third person died Tuesday when he was hit by a truck while fleeing agents in Florida.<\/p>\n

The incidents follow two fatal shootings of American citizens in January, after Trump surged immigration agents to Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Trump has never let up on his campaign to deport as many undocumented immigrants as possible, despite the sinking popularity of his efforts after the Minnesota operations. But ICE spent some time recalibrating how to do it, said David Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.<\/p>\n

As November elections loom in which Republicans could lose control of Congress, immigration agents are out again, this time across the country.<\/p>\n

Experts say violence is inevitable when there\u2019s so much political pressure on agents to make arrests and such high stakes for those who are detained (migrants face indefinite detention in warehouses and deportation).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what the last few weeks and months have shown is that immigration agents don\u2019t care who you are when they are going to use violence,\u201d said JoAnna Suriani, a lawyer with the antiauthoritarian group Protect Democracy. \u201cThe last two instances have been immigrants who have varying levels of documentation, who are peaceful, law-abiding economic contributors to their communities and by all accounts good family men. And they were murdered in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as inevitable might be the political backlash to this. Latino voters are wary of ICE, fearing they and their families might get caught up in its raids, said Stephanie Valencia, who heads Equis Research, which studies Latino voters.<\/p>

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\u201cThere\u2019s this sense that, even if you immigrated the right way, if you look a certain way in this country today, you are at risk,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

After the shooting deaths of two Americans in Minnesota, ICE briefly got bipartisan scrutiny from Congress. A number of Republican lawmakers wanted immigration officers to stop entering homes without a warrant, stop operating in crowded cities and start wearing body cameras.<\/p>\n

There was also a push for ICE to focus on deporting only migrants with criminal records.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeport gangs, not grandmas,\u201d urged Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Colorado) in February.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Congress didn\u2019t make major changes to how immigration agents operate. Last month, Republicans approved $70 billion for immigration enforcement<\/a>, funding ICE through the end of Trump\u2019s term.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration says that it is focused on making communities safer and that 70 percent of those deported have criminal records, which could not be independently verified. A sizable number of people detained<\/a> over the past year have no criminal records, and include children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has demanded<\/a> a criminal investigation into the killing in Houston. But that seems unlikely. After every death at the hands of ICE, the Trump administration has doubled down on protecting its agents and has tried to cast those killed as the aggressors, despite evidence emerging at times to the contrary. In Minnesota, no federal agents involved have faced charges. It\u2019s taken months for state authorities to get ahold of evidence<\/a> from the federal government as they pursue their own investigations.<\/p>\n

ICE made one concession this week as protests spread in Maine, where a critical election for control of the Senate is taking place: The agency said it would pause conducting traffic stops<\/a>. Six people have died<\/a> in cars at the hands of ICE agents since the start of Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n

Trump threw that change into doubt Wednesday as he praised agents on social media, writing: \u201cWe CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.\u2019s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!\u201d<\/p>\n

Another concern among experts is the lack of documentation of agents as they interact with an increasingly wary public.<\/p>\n

ICE leaders have said their agents are masked and not wearing cameras to protect them from unprecedented harassment from the public. Critics see ICE trying to carry out its unpopular deportation tactics as secretly as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey could have prioritized getting body cameras to all their agents after Minnesota,\u201d said Bier. \u201cThey didn\u2019t, and I think there\u2019s an obvious explanation, which is they don\u2019t want the public to see exactly what happens \u2014 not just the shooting but everything that leads up to one of these stops. Why are we stopping a guy who\u2019s in a white van and looks Hispanic? They don\u2019t want all of that on video in the public domain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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