📍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐄 ICE is refusing to reunite a mom and her child even though the mom's charges were dismissed. Esther Lopez-Sanchez, who is currently at a South Louisiana processing center is pleading immigration authorities to return her child to her family members. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃: A Maryland woman was detained and moved to Louisiana, despite her attorneys giving ICE documentation to prove that she was born in the U.S., including a birth certificate. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: More than 117,000 immigrants now face potential deportation after the Trump administration moved to reopen cases that immigration judges had previously paused, many involving people who have lived in the U.S. for a decade or more. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: The Trump administration is moving to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans, directing USCIS offices to generate up to 200 denaturalization cases per month, an unprecedented escalation. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍, 𝐌𝐀: Four people, including ministers and a university professor, were arrested while attempting to deliver care packages with food, warm clothing, and menstrual products to people being held at the Burlington facility. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃, 𝐎𝐑: Mayor Keith Wilson and multiple city leaders called ICE’s actions during an arrest, “unnecessary, unjustified, and potentially unconstitutional,” warning that the use of chemical munitions in neighborhoods undermines public trust in government. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐒, 𝐌𝐍: New video shows ICE agents shattering a car window and violently detaining an Ecuadorian couple during a chaotic traffic stop. "Agents deployed chemical irritants, and at one point an agent used a taser before yelling to the crowd, 'Who wants more?'" #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐒, 𝐓𝐍 @samanthamichaels.bsky.social goes into detail on how immigrant families are surviving the ICE-occupied Memphis. #AbuseofPowerWatch "Some Memphians critical of the surge liken the city to a war zone...Immigrant citizens carry their US passports, lest they be detained."

📍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒 Dozens of detainees at Camp East Montana in Fort Bliss Army Base are reporting of physical abuse and neglect. The detainees statements showed officers using excessive force, not getting the medical care they need, and use of expired food. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐒, 𝐌𝐍: A tense situation occurred when dozens of residents prevented ICE agents from operating on their streets to protect their neighbors. '"It's unbelievable what I see right now, our city, our neighborhood, it's kind of like a war right now," said Goth Ali, an observer on site.'

📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊, 𝐍𝐘: Report shows that federal Immigration officers entered NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants in multiple instances, violating NYC laws that bars staffers from letting officers to enter private areas of city property. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐀: Rep. Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled over her son this weekend and asked him to prove his citizenship. “Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by ICE agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go” #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐒, 𝐅𝐋: A South Florida family says 21-year-old Miguel Alejandro Tapia was detained without warning during a routine immigration check-in. Despite full compliance with ISAP, an alternative-to-detention program. Tapia is now being held at “Alligator Alcatraz.” #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍, 𝐃𝐂: Rep. @magaziner.house.gov challenged DHS Secretary Noem after she claimed no U.S. veterans had been deported. Magaziner then introduced Sgt. Sae Joon Park, a Purple Heart recipient deported to South Korea earlier this year, appearing via zoom. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄, 𝐌𝐃: A federal judge had to issue an emergency order this morning to stop ICE from locking up Kilmar Ábrego García again, despite his unlawful deportation and ongoing danger. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓 𝐋𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘, 𝐔𝐓: A father of a 4-year-old was taken by ICE mid-interview, the first time his attorney has ever seen a client arrested inside a USCIS appointment. Jair Celis is a longtime Utah resident with no criminal record and is married to a U.S. citizen. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈, 𝐎𝐇: ICE agent Samuel Saxon, once awarded a DHS “exceptional leadership” medal, is in court today after a witness reported he put a household member in a chokehold. Police have been called to his home 22 times in 18 months. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐒, 𝐌𝐍: Mubashir was tackled, put in a chokehold & arrested by federal immigration officers while on his way to get food. “Mubashir said he told officers multiple times that he is a U.S. citizen... Officers ignored him, dragged him in the snow & pushed him into a car” #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐒, 𝐌𝐍: Omar Abdulle, a father of two, was arrested by ICE outside his home Tuesday morning. His detention is one of several reported this week amid a federal crackdown targeting Minnesota’s Somali community. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐃.𝐂.: A new Senate investigation led by @blumenthal.senate.gov finds that federal immigration agents unlawfully detained and brutalized at least 22 American citizens, contradicting Sec. Noem’s claim that “no American citizens have been arrested or detained.” #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒, 𝐋𝐀: A 23-year-old U.S. citizen was filmed running inside her home after masked ICE agents chased her down a suburban street in Marrero — she says she was targeted simply because “I’m brown.” #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: Arrests by ICE at U.S. airports have surged — up 94% in 2025 compared with 2024 — with a steep rise in detentions of people without criminal convictions or charges. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐀: 65-year-old veteran Godfrey Wade — who served in the U.S. Army and spent decades living and working in the U.S. — was detained by ICE after a traffic stop for driving without a license, and now faces deportation despite a lifetime of service and family in the States. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐁𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍, 𝐌𝐀: Immigrants who had completed all the steps to become U.S. citizens were pulled out of line just moments before their oath-of-citizenship ceremony at USCIS because of their country of origin — despite approval. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: The USCIS is rolling back work-permit rules: the maximum validity for refugees, asylees, and other immigrants is being cut from 5 years to just 18 months, and automatic renewals are ending. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍, 𝐃.𝐂.: A new ICE crackdown under the 2025 federal “crime emergency” in D.C. has resulted in over 1,100 arrests — and more than 80% of those detained had no criminal record. Many arrests reportedly occurred without warrants or probable cause. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐀: Amnesty International says people held at Alligator Alcatraz — a detention facility used by ICE — endured conditions amounting to torture: cramped “box”-cages outdoors, 24-hour lights, overcrowding, lack of water/sanitation, medical neglect, and enforced disappearances. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒, 𝐋𝐀: U.S. Border Patrol agents detained multiple people with work permits and American citizenship in the agency's "Catahoula Crunch" immigration sweeps so far, according to immigrant rights groups and attorneys representing one detainee. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐋𝐎𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒, 𝐂𝐀: A 39-year-old man was detained by ICE during a green-card interview in downtown L.A.— even though he said he came to the U.S. as an infant and has no criminal record. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐀: The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries — normally a wildlife/hunting agency — has signed a 287(g) deal and is now detaining people and handing them over to ICE, including at least six individuals with no criminal charges at the time of arrest. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊, 𝐍𝐘: The Trump administration fired eight immigration judges in Manhattan — one of the busiest immigration courts where ICE conducts many deportation hearings — replacing them with temporary appointees lacking immigration-law experience. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: The USDA, under the Trump administration, is threatening to withhold funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Democratic-led states — unless they hand over detailed data on recipients’ immigration status and personal info. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: DHS has expanded its SAVE database to include millions of U.S. citizens, giving agencies — including ICE — access to voter and ID data far beyond its original purpose. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊, 𝐍𝐘: ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐊𝐈, 𝐕𝐓: A 7-year-old second-grader from the Winooski School District and his mother were detained by ICE while traveling for Thanksgiving; the boy was absent from school on Monday and the family remains in a Texas detention center. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐒𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐆𝐎, 𝐂𝐀: Two women were detained by ICE during what they believed to be routine green-card interviews at the USCIS office, just days before Thanksgiving. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐃, 𝐖𝐀: Elaine Miles, a Native American actor, says she was stopped by ICE while walking to a bus stop — agents dismissed her legally issued tribal ID as “fake,” refused to verify it, tried to take her phone, and only released her after she was detained. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐁𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍, 𝐌𝐀: A 19-year-old college student flying home for Thanksgiving was detained by ICE at the airport — then deported to Honduras despite a federal judge’s order halting her removal. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: ICE has already placed roughly 600 immigrant children into federal shelters this year — the highest number on record — and many of these cases resulted from routine stops rather than border crossings. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: The Trump administration is launching a sweeping review of approximately 233,000 refugees admitted under the Biden presidency — halting green-card processing and ordering re-interviews on the claim that “expediency” overtook vetting. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐌𝐂𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄, 𝐎𝐑: A 17-year-old McMinnville High School senior and U.S. citizen was stopped by ICE during his lunch break, had his car window smashed, and was held for hours despite repeatedly asserting his citizenship. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐒𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐆𝐎, 𝐂𝐀: A Norwegian woman with type-1 diabetes was detained by ICE during what was supposed to be a routine green card interview in San Diego, highlighting a new detention tactic that immigration attorneys say is becoming more common. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: The federal government is ramping up recruitment of what are being referred to as “deportation judges” — immigration judges whose primary focus appears to be facilitating fast-track removals rather than adjudicating fair hearings. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄, 𝐑𝐈: A high-school student and intern at the Rhode Island Superior Court was mistakenly detained by ICE outside the courthouse. He was only released after a Superior Court judge intervened and confirmed he was not the target of the operation. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: A report reveals that U.S. Border Patrol is covertly monitoring drivers across the country using hidden cameras and license-plate readers to flag “suspicious” travel patterns — then funneling those cases to local police for stops, searches or detentions. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊, 𝐍𝐘: A member of the New York National Guard is fighting to have his step-father released after ICE detained him, raising questions about jurisdiction and the rights of long‐time residents. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒, 𝐋𝐀: The upcoming operation dubbed “Swamp Sweep” is set to bring up to 250 federal agents into New Orleans to launch a sweeping immigration enforcement effort in a city long defined by cultural diversity and immigrant ties. #AbuseofPowerWatch

📍 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐎, 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐈𝐒: Greg Bovino, head of the U.S. Border Patrol, was filmed approaching a man at a bus stop, asking “You speak English?” while visibly targeting him, then switching to Spanish and later posting that the interaction “ended with the arrest of this illegal alien.” #AbuseOfPowerWatch

📍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄, 𝐍𝐂: Nearly 21,000 students in the Charlotte‑Mecklenburg Schools district were absent on Monday amid heightened fear linked to deportation operations in the city. #AbuseofPowerWatch