ICE arrests about 10,000 immigrants in five days
🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
Expect to hear more about this in the coming days, if they keep up this pace.
So, is this planned over our national 250th birthday weekend? If so, it is more than heinous and makes even more of a mockery of our principles (which teeter on a trapeze wire).
If you think this ends when "all the illegals are gone", it doesn't. They move on to "disloyal" citizens. You can count on that.
The irony of MAGA people who are opposed to racial quotas now themselves seeking to fill daily quotas for deportation using racial profiling is just too perfectly MAGA.🙄
Arrest quotas shouldn't be legal.
A massive federal terroristic kidnapping human trafficking operation filling for-profit concentration camps in the USA
Fascism is here. “ICE officials were told that the WH wanted an increase in arrests, according to three officials... One of the officials said that it was unclear how long the pace could continue, but that ICE officials had been told that 2,000 arrests a day was the new standard for enforcement.”
These are not arrests. These are kidnappings. No warrants. No due process. Half your bill of rights is in the toilet. Stop helping to normalize this.
The ICE Nazis haven't stopped abducting, raping, robbing, torturing and Murdering civilians...they've increased. #AbolishICE #Nuremberg2
Please don't ask anyone to travel to the US. The conservatives are still kidnapping a lot of people. Keep in mind that ICE has the power to kidnap American citizens as well, because alleged aliens do not have the right to see a lawyer or judge as far as I know.
Desperation...in hoping they can deport enough American citizens to get them the midterms.
Earlier this week, Intelligencer ran a piece called "ICE Won." We definitely don't agree with the title, but its gist—that the normalization of federal police violence is accelerating—is proving accurate. ICE arrests roughly doubled in Chicagoland in June over May. Some more thoughts on that:
Here's a link to that piece. We recommend reading beyond the headline & wrestling with all of it. Rapid responders are still in the streets bravely tracking ICE activity despite federal agents' track record of killing them. We only know this past month’s stats because of them.
It's going to increase exponentially. This criminal regime profits from this terrorism.
ICE didn’t win, the American people got bored and now accept corruption, violence and oppression as just the way things are. They don’t like it, but doing something about seems too much trouble.
WTF has the USA not held a national strike, shut the Country down, bring your Government to its knees, there are 300+Million of you & yet the vast majority are carrying on like theres nothing wrong, like concentration camps, masked thugs kidnapping people, pedophiles being protected, is normal.
we are ten years into a civil war and our side refuses to arm themselves or fight against the insane physical violence and harm
If ICE has won it's because the media has lost interest in covering it. The current admin is an outrage on their immigration policy, but the truth is most Americans of both parties want undocumented immigrants either deported or given refugee status, not put into camps.
Just can't share & emphasize this sentiment enough: ICE has been kidnapping our neighbors in greater & greater numbers. The narrative of mass deportation having suffered a decisive defeat in Minneapolis is flatly wrong; kidnappings, inhumane detention, & deportations continue & are increasing.
This is the Lib way. Rack up a symbolic victory (Noem/Bovino leaving) and fly the Mission Accomplished banner. They're doing it again with birthright citizenship. They did it with the "Muslim Ban" Trump's 1st term. They did it every time ACA was upheld (but individual provisions were struck down).
Every single lawless ICE kidnapping; every second of squalid, Kafkaesque detention; every court-defying & life-endangering deportation is palpable daily evidence of fascist rule in America.
As a Black woman, I knew this was gonna happen because white people didn't give a fuck about ICE before and they never gave a fuck about the police. And it's the same shit. They actually want ICE and they want police. So, here we are.
People are eager for ICE to be a singular problem on its own while denying that DHS fulfills the prospect of American policing to a T: excessive force as the norm, lack of institutional accountability for reforms, racial profiling, insane budgetary imbalances and militarizing every aspect of itself.
Protesters had Delaney Hall on the ropes then Democrats decided to brutalize protesters with state and local cops Also I reject the premise its happening "behind the scenes" I see new insane videos everyday, big name politicians just refuse to talk about it
An important topic for every community this summer.
Watch this. The key point: ICE is still active, but the sense of alarm & urgency about stopping them might be fading. "State violence relies on normalization. If we accept that it's happening then the house isn't on fire anymore and there is no emergency."
So when do we fight back? When do we say "enough?" What event will finally push us into action? Or do we just continue watching the destruction of our country like a TV reality show?
They saw the backlash against policing and created a new and worse police to rebrand with less training, less accountability instead of fixing anything.
NEW: Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last 5 days, a major surge that has stemmed from a push at ICE to increase arrests. The WH has wanted more arrests. The expectation inside ICE is 2K arrests a day. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
Gift link! Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down By Hamed Aleaziz The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year’s large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.
NYT still sane-washing these fascists. It’s not “clamping down”. More like ramping up their ethnic cleansing terror campaign.
The children will be sex trafficked. The adults will be bounced around the country from one for profit prison to another, and eventually be deported to a country they don’t know. This is our America! Wanna change that? I do!
This is yet another disgrace.
They are practicing for post-midterm roundups of perceived "enemies of the state" during the "national emergency."
"Veronica said the family had not expected to be caught up in Mr. Trump’s deportation sweep. “We were worried, but it wasn’t like we were extremely worried. We figured — we don’t have any criminal record, we pay taxes every year,” she said.
Expect to hear more about this in the coming days, if they keep up this pace.
Following setbacks in Minneapolis, ICE has changed strategies. Now they are trying to inflict as much suffering as possible without attracting attention. They are escalating right now. We need strategies to confront and impede them—the way people did at Delaney Hall. crimethinc.com/DelaneyStrat...
If this becomes major news, I’d expect to see what you saw in Minneapolis and Chicago, which is major immigrant communities effectively going into hiding. Here, it was economically devastating. Nationwide, it could provoke an economic downturn
I can't imagine the soullessness necessary to transform the abduction of thousands of people by a masked secret police force, their disappearance into jails and private concentration camps, and the terrorizing and occupying of communities across the country, into "remarkable operational results."
Während weltweit der Fußball im Fokus der Berichterstattung steht, fährt die Trump-Regierung unbehelligt ihre Abschiebe-Razzien wieder hoch. Ist aber aus der EU auch schwer zu kritisieren, nachdem man selbst die Bedingungen für Migrant*innen massiv verschärft hat. #FußballWM #WM2026
Je me souviens très très très bien des appels au boycott par les chroniqueurs et donneurs d’opinion occidentaux pendant la Coupe du monde au Qatar en 2022. Le traitement réservé aux migrants, le non-respect des droits humains… ça les choquait beaucoup. Indignation à géométrie variable.
80% detained in Maine do not have a criminal record and have legal status in process for immigration. “Our message is clear: If you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we will arrest you and we will deport you,” a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said in a statement.
That vile little homunculus Nazi Miller demands it!
Speaking anecdotally, this feels very real here in Connecticut. #nutmegsky
I think most Americans have no idea of the scope and scale of this problem... All this passivity is infuriating and feels unbearable to watch. Like people are normalizing the unacceptable, as if it’s ok. #willfulblindness #quietcomplicity
Very disturbing report but also very illustrative. I keep hearing people say that with the revocation of special protected status for hundreds of thousands of people we're likely to see surges like we saw last year in Chicago, LA and Minneapolis. But this suggests ... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
2/ we won't. It's an important realization. Those "surges" in blue cities were very clearly never focused on maximizing arrests/detentions. They were intended to sow terror to try to overawe those cities themselves. The civilian populations made up overwhelmingly of citiznes. You couldn't look ...
We may not see additional surges to implement the deportation of people previously under TPS. But there is every reason to think we will see additional surges this fall with the purpose of instilling terror.
@joshtpm.bsky.social do you think real numbers are being given by DHS officials???
A quiet but huge surge. Have to think Supreme Court immigration decisions fed into this approach. Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
Yes including a nun in habit on way to mass! Oh but she was a person of color! These thugs need to be out of business…from Minneapolis! They are evil evil masked men!
I pray that one day, maybe when he’s either in bankruptcy court or prison, Markwayne wishes he had stayed in plumbing. And Stephen Miller, Tom Homan in prison. And unrepentant, in Hell with Dear Leader.
They do the shock and awe first, then ramp it up with the volume down and people are like, this isn't so bad. It's bad.
What’s the ‘American’ word for POGROM?
This is absolutely heartless and cruel. These are not “the worst of the worst”. Stephen Miller, Tom Homan belong in jail.
It’s disgusting that it’s happening on the 4th of July weekend. Completely unpatriotic.
America, the capital city is under military occupation. It’s not about the fountains. It’s not about the Fair. This task force has killed people. They are reinforcing ICE. They are making arrests without legal authority. WAKE UP
Send a letter to the governors supporting this occupation and tell them to get their Guard out of DC NOW
gee wonder why they couldn't take this on the mall and instead had to move into a dense residential area
"Send a letter to government" OI. These are traitors to the constitution and the the people must deal appropriately with traitors.
DC Safe & Beautiful Task Force is neither.
Do we know what state they are from?
Sure looks like they photoshopped the colors in that picture to make the algae problem less visible.
Any MN Dems here care that @governorwalz.mn.gov and the MN National Guard is teaming up with the Trump regime to illegally police the residents of Washington DC? Teaming up with insurrectionists, Pete Hegseth, and Stephen Miller this morning:
This is across the street from my condo. They shut down the street so our clown Secretary of Defense could talk a bunch of nonsense. Fair number of protestors showed up outside the park.
these thugs have been stalking the subway system for months and they need to get out
Perhaps they weren’t serious when they said it was about beautification of the park bsky.app/profile/free...
This is blocks from home. No occupation in DC! And NO OCCUPATION IN GAZA!
If the president of any other country had the military doing patrols and formations in the capital city, you wouldn’t be confused.
tfw you enlisted to aid hurricane survivors and floods, but suddenly…
“Without fanfare.” Ice raids are more sweeping. And quieter. To avoid protest. [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
And the error rate for the "professionals" making the arrests at this rate? The most accurate headline would be "ICE arrests of non-white residents" Accuracy in communication is more of a ... happy accident for corporate media, when it occurs
How are we letting this still happen?
These thugs are J6ers emboldened with masks, guns and bounty money
I'm curious how they're accomplishing these jumps. Have they spread out wider, geographically? Is it going after the new low-hanging fruit of TPS immigrants?
More data pointing to the selfishness & racism of the American Voter Recalls should be sweeping the country. Local cops should be hamstrung to prevent working with ICE. Neighbors should be shunned for mere vocal support of this But there's imperfect weather to discuss & pills to take
Thank you for the gift article. This is all so deplorable.
Posted because we CAN'T allow this to seem normal, just because it's quiet. We need to speak out. That's why it's quiet to begin with -- because ICE raids that were announced drew protest.
ICE learned that white people are generally fine with them harassing people as long as they are left out of it and don’t have to hear about it every day. Another reminder that white folks aren‘t fighting Trump for a better country. They just want to go back to sleep.
Stop watching the World Cup. Being able to do this whilst hosting the greatest show on earth ( well one of them) shames us all
Having learned that their activities are deeply unpopular, secret police have gone secret
We can’t let ICE deportations become a quiet background thing
What an enormous waste of resources, both in terms of the people doing the arresting and the people whose lives are upended and pulled out of their communities.
The big story is the headline: “ICE arrests 10,000 illegally in US…” Are they illegal? How many are legal residents? How many are US citizens? The headline shows how far due process has fallen and how much the media has surrendered. We don’t give fascists the benefit of the doubt. #RFA
The true headline is ICE "Illegally Arrests 10000 People"
Are you sure it wasn't "ICE arrests 10,000 illegally"?
Actually I think the arrests are illegal grammatically, just saying.
And how many are nuns?
Right … that’s what they report but not even have of what they claim are illegals but American citizens. We don’t believe their fake reports. Everything about this administration is a lie… everything.
We also don't know what the average was normally. We have no idea what good any of this has done.
#ICEout if any government agency is this out of control its operations need to be suspended until oversight can be reestablish or the agency brought into compliance with law by courts and Congress. This is how fascism in WWII Germany used Ghistapo to bring about Holocaust, stop this now. #NoKings
They could have just stopped it at “ICE arrests 10,000 illegally”…
ICE officers have arrested people at check-ins with immigration authorities, during traffic stops and on the street. The push has apparently yielded results, with recent arrest numbers roughly doubling from the 1,000 picked up each day earlier this year. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
This gives me great pause (as it should any brown or Black person in the USA). They are bolstering these quota numbers by detaining (and holding, BTW) folks like that Nigerian nun down in South Texas. As a brown man with long hair and known to speak Spanish in public, it does not give me comfort.
@nytimes.com has referred to Trump's immigration "policies" as "triumphant."
Gift link! Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down By Hamed Aleaziz The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year’s large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.
yeah, you guys are not imagining it. 😮💨 @unraveledpress.com @dreanyc123.bsky.social
It’s worse every day. 😡
Can confirm we’re seeing this where I am. (DC area) It’s awful.
Please don't let them hide behind the World Cup and the 4th of July. Markwayne is just as much of a fascist tyrant as Lil' Nazi was, he just has a more ridiculous name.
This is happening during The World Cup. I have seen far less coverage of this than I have previous upticks in ICE activity. Really missing @lataco.bsky.social and @eltragon.bsky.social Daily Memo right now :(
These 10,000 arrests are not enough for the White House which wants even more arrests. The new enforcement standard is now 2,000 people per day. That equals 14,000/week, +60,000/month and a whopping 730,000 people per year. They aren’t even bothering to pretend these are the worst of the worst. 🤨😠😡
Not really feeling ‘Murica if this is how our government celebrates the nation’s independence