February 24, 2026
Still Happening: ICE Abuse and Overreach
Every day, the Trump administration is using its already unprecedented DHS funding to terrorize communities, tear-gas schools, and abduct and kill our neighbors. The harm being inflicted hasn't stopped. Below is a snapshot of how ICE and CBP continue to hurt our communities with the billions CBP and ICE have already provided, how deeply unpopular these actions are with the public, and how voters are demanding Congress not send additional funding to the agency.
DHS has already received $191 billion in reconciliation funding, including $75 billion for ICE, $64 billion for CBP and $22 billion in a slush fund to be used for immigration enforcement.
Here is a sampling of big stories from the last few days that continue to show the Trump Administration is pushing ahead on its wrong and deeply unpopular immigration actions:
ICE Activity Continues in Minnesota Despite Federal Claims of Withdrawal
Drawdown is much more limited than federal officials have portrayed.
CBS Minnesota reports that legal observers and community monitoring networks continue to cite ICE activity in their neighborhoods—including sightings of tactical agents, ICE vehicles, and arrests in suburban parking lots—even as federal officials have said that most of the agents deployed for Operation Metro Surge would be pulled out of the state.
ICE Detained 16-Year-Old…and Then Lost Track of Him
Federal immigration authorities misclassified the teenage asylum seeker as an unaccompanied minor.
The Minnesota Star Tribune shares the story of a 16-year-old asylum-seeker from Ecuador who was detained by ICE in north Minneapolis, wrongly labeled an "unaccompanied minor," and flown out of state where federal agencies temporarily lost track of him—forcing his parents and attorneys into a frantic search.
New Jersey First Grader Left Alone After Father Detained
Neighbors found the six-year-old wandering the streets alone crying before they brought her inside.
Annabella, a New Jersey first grader whose father was detained while stepping outside to pick up a food order, spoke exclusively with MSNOW, describing how she had been left alone in her family's apartment and went to ask strangers for help finding her father when he didn't return after many hours.
New Bill Would Limit Administration's Push for ICE Warehouses
Several Republican lawmakers have already expressed concerns over the administration's plans to set up detention centers and processing centers in their states and districts.
According to The Washington Post, New Hampshire Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan are planning to introduce a bill that would block the Department of Homeland Security from opening new federal detention centers without approval from state and local officials, reflecting the growing resistance to the Trump administration's efforts to place these facilities in local communities.
ICE Detains Nashville Father with Work Authorization
The man said in an interview while in detention that agents mocked him during his arrest.
ICE arrested Juan Martin Espindola Ramirez last week while he was driving to work—just two weeks after he welcomed a newborn baby with his partner who is a U.S. citizen—with agents reportedly smashing the windows of his work van and refusing to review his legal documents, even though he has valid work authorization.
Newly Disclosed ICE Blueprint Alarms Residents, Sparks Bipartisan Local Backlash
Internal DHS documents reveal plans to transform a massive Georgia warehouse into an 8,500-bed detention camp.
A column in The Philadelphia Inquirer argues that ICE's newly revealed plans to convert a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia into a detention center mirror some of history's worst concentration camps, with the facility capable of holding twice as many people as the nation's largest federal prison for 60 days or longer.
