As deportations ramp up, immigrants increasingly fear Ice checkins: ‘All bets are off’
Apr 06, 2025
Data suggests as many as 1,400 people were arrested during or right after Ice check-ins in first four weeks of Trump’s administrationJorge, a 22-year-old asylum seeker from Venezuela, reported in February to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Portland, Oregon, for wha
t he figured would be a routine check-in. Instead, he was arrested and transferred to a detention center in another state.Alberto, a 42-year-old from Nicaragua who had been granted humanitarian parole, checked in with Ice using an electronic monitoring program that same month. Three days later, he was arrested. Continue reading... ...read more read less