President Donald Trump’s head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he wants to see the deportation process look like "[Amazon] Prime, but with human beings."

ICE's Acting Director Todd Lyons made the remarks during the 2025 Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center on April 8, 2025, according to the Arizona Mirror.

His vision would see squads of ICE agents in trucks rounding people up and shipping them to other countries in the same way that Amazon ships packages.

The deportation flight was in the air over Mexico when chaos erupted in the back of the plane, the flight attendant recalled. A little girl had collapsed. She had a high fever and was taking ragged, frantic breaths.

The flight attendant, a young woman who went by the nickname Lala, said she grabbed the plane’s emergency oxygen bottle and rushed past rows of migrants chained at the wrists and ankles to reach the girl and her parents.

One of the Venezuelan migrants who is believed to be among the latest group sent to El Salvador on Sunday night was in Guantanamo Bay and had a final order of removal, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Maiker Espinoza Escalona was the lead plaintiff in one of the Guantanamo cases brought by the ACLU against the Department of Homeland Security filed last month. His partner is currently detained in a detention center in Texas and his two-year-old daughter is in HHS custody, according to the ACLU.

In what should be a moment of clarity for anyone paying attention, ICE recently detained an international graduate student from the University of Minnesota. The student—whose name and alleged offenses have not been disclosed—was apprehended near the Twin Cities campus. It’s part of a broader sweep by federal authorities across multiple universities targeting individuals whose activities allegedly align with terrorist sympathies or radical activism.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are unable to effectively monitor more than 600,000 children who illegally crossed the southern border unaccompanied by a guardian since 2019, according to a new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General.

Abstract legal and procedural questions don’t move public sentiment. Stories of individuals do. 

What did more to turn American voters so sharply against the postpandemic wave of immigration, crime statistics or the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley? 

Following a Massachusetts law barring law enforcement cooperation with ICE, illegal child rapists and other serious criminal illegals charged with "horrific crimes" are being released on to the streets on bail as low as $500 and, in some cases, no bail at all.

Responding to these releases, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, said that Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healy and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, both Democrats, "should be ashamed" and that despite their actions, deporting criminal illegals "will be done...

There was no explanation, no warning. One minute, I was in an immigration office talking to an officer about my work visa, which had been approved months before and allowed me, a Canadian, to work in the US. The next, I was told to put my hands against the wall, and patted down like a criminal before being sent to an Ice detention center without the chance to talk to a lawyer.

The Trump administration has admitted in federal court documents that “many” Venezuelans it accused of being dangerous gang members and deported through presidential wartime powers have no criminal records in the United States, but argued it was only because they had only been in the U.S. briefly. President Donald Trump used a centuries-old law, the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, to deport the Venezuelans without due process in the U.S., saying they were members of the feared Tren de Aragua gang.

Nassau County has become the first county in the U.S. to strike an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help deport criminal and illegal immigrants, Republican county executive Bruce Blakeman announced Wednesday.

Unlike the rest of New York, the suburban Long Island county is not considered a sanctuary for illegal aliens. The state as a whole, including nearby New York City, saw a rapid increase of migrant arrivals since spring 2022.