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    Trump ‘border czar’ denies Milo Yiannopoulos was deported quickly to spare him from ICE detention

  • Yiannopoulos speaks into a microphone at a podium, wearing a white blazer and blue tie

    ‘GB News wouldn’t touch him’: Milo Yiannopoulos will struggle to fit in with UK right wing

  • Man in suit with red tie

    Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK

  • Gold badge on belt

    Judge blocks Minnesota bid to extradite Texas ICE agent accused of shooting man

  • Masked men frogmarch a detained a person down a corridor

    ICE arrested 50,000 people in July – quietly the biggest month in Trump’s second term

  • A sign saying Department of State outside of building

    US halts all immigrant visa applications amid tightening restrictions

  • a person wearing a badge

    ICE arrests mother and daughter at Florida hospital after car crash

  • Sailor Joshua Aviles stands beside his father, who was later detained by immigration officials

    Father of USS Lincoln sailor detained by ICE released from detention

In depth

  • A woman behind a counter with a sign that reads, 'No Western Union' in a grocery store

    Texas
    The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering. It devastated mom-and-pop businesses instead

  • Yorleny Weigel holding phone with photo of Gerson Turcios, who has been detained by ICE in the US

    ‘They kidnapped a hard-working kid off our streets’:
    The gardener seized by ICE – and the New York town fighting back

  • Aerial view of a dirt border fence road in Arizona, with felled cottonwood tree stumps beside it

    ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’
    Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction

Explainers and analysis

  • men in tactical gear stand outside a facility

    Essay
    Why do Latinos work for ICE?

  • a man holding another man's arm

    Immigration courts
    Trump’s deportation crackdown accelerated by potent tool

  • Federal agents in tactical vests escort a person in a beige sweater with their hands behind their back.

    Arrests
    US immigration agents detained a record number of people in June, data shows

  • Composite photo of two men, one younger and one middle-aged, superimposed over a photo of a stopped car surrounded by police tape and the feet of a person lying prone just out of frame.

    One week, two killings
    Trump’s immigration crackdown turns deadly – again

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Opinion

  • Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps

    John Washington
    I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
  • Mehdi Hasan

    Why is Elon Musk boosting an anti-immigrant film loved by the far right?

    Mehdi Hasan
    Does anyone seriously think this kind of amplification is harmless?

  • The US supreme court just put the lives of 1.3 million immigrants in danger

    Heba Gowayed
  • Moustafa Bayoumi

    Trump is stripping Americans of their citizenship at a shocking rate

    Moustafa Bayoumi
  • Moira Donegan

    Life inside the Delaney Hall ICE detention camp is a travesty

    Moira Donegan
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Stephen Miller delivers for Trump: 145,000 US kids separated from their parents

    Arwa Mahdawi

Video

  • Over the past ten days, ICE officials have killed two immigrants in separate shootings in Texas and Maine. Kai Wright speaks with Guardian immigration reporter José Olivares about how their deaths are just the latest examples of the violence of President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and what accountability for them might look like.

    Podcast
    How ICE became so deadly

    Video43:27
  • Salgado’s family, including his wife and three sons, found out about his death from news reports

    'He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline'
    Son of man fatally shot by ICE speaks out

    Video1:33
  • In June 2025 Christian Cerna was arrested by ICE after being accused of punching an officer at a protest. The violent arrest was filmed and later posted to social media

    Interview
    How ICE turned its violent arrest of a US citizen into content

    Video42:36
  • Abel hugs a family member at his leaving party, he is preparing to leave LA after 38 years living as an undocumented migrant

    Documentary
    Abel leaves LA: self-deportation from Trump’s America

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