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US immigration

  • people block a car

    ‘It’s not justice, but it is a win’
    The spectacular collapse of a case against ICE protesters

    Though the federal government’s prosecution fell apart, the Broadview Six of Illinois say their lives have been upended

News

  • Donald Trump, with his then personal attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to the media during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on 16 May 2024.

    Adam Schiff calls for Senate to ‘vigorously oppose’ Trump’s effort to make Todd Blanche his permanent attorney general – as it happened

  • a man signs a document while seated at a desk

    Federal judge rules Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas unlawful

  • a man in tactical gear holds a taser as other men in tactical gear stand in a crowd of people on a street

    Trump’s border czar threatens to send ‘more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen’ to New York City

  • Scott PelleyFILE - Scott Pelley, anchor of "CBS Evening News," at the CBS Upfront in New York, May 15, 2013. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

    Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted 60 Minutes to say Renee Good was ‘driving toward officer’

  • a man has his arm around another men's neck as they walk away from a detention facility

    ‘It’s like they’re kidnapped there’: families tell of distress over ‘inhumane’ ICE jail

  • a young man looking left

    ICE deported his dad. Now he’s graduating high school without him

  • two people are silhouetted pressing their hands against windows in a detention facility

    Memo orders ICE to stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees

  • people sit in an airport

    US judge rules against Trump policies targeting immigrants from 39 travel-ban countries

In depth

  • a young man looking left

    A bittersweet diploma
    ICE deported his dad. Now he’s graduating high school without him

  • A group of people wearing masks embrace and shield their faces on a street

    ‘We won’t stop until they’re free
    Protesters outside a New Jersey ICE facility in their own words

  • Collage of a US map with scribbles, arrows, and images of ICE agents, barbed wire fencing, and handcuffed hands

    Shackled, transferred, mocked
    Woman, 23, says she gave in to deportation after ‘humiliating’ ICE detention

Explainers and analysis

  • people stand outside

    Georgia
    Why a town’s novel strategy to fight an ICE jail has legal experts impressed

  • Collage of a torn photo of a mother and son, with an immigration document in the background

    Data analysis
    We sued the Trump administration for these immigration records - now we're releasing them

  • Graphic showing police and ICE on backs of uniforms

    Investigation
    Police across the US worry officers are being misidentified as ICE, records show

  • three officers overlaid over three badges

    Visualization
    The federal agents deployed in Trump’s immigration crackdown

Immigration crackdown tracker

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Opinion

  • Moira Donegan

    double quotation markLife inside the Delaney Hall ICE detention camp is a travesty

    Moira Donegan
    The immigrants’ courage is matched only by the severity of their limited options. Ultimately, the pressure for change will have to come from the outside

  • double quotation markThe US has deported thousands to third countries. This must stop

    James A Goldston and Natasha Arnpriester
    Monitors estimate 17,500 people have been sent to countries they may never have visited – and where they could face further danger
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markStephen Miller delivers for Trump: 145,000 US kids separated from their parents

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Judith Levine

    double quotation markThe anti-ICE resistance is working

    Judith Levine

  • double quotation markWhy were these two US immigration judges fired?

    Seth Stern

  • double quotation markI’m fighting Trump’s birthright citizenship order at the supreme court. Will we adhere to the best of our history?

    Cody Wofsy

Video

  • A man poses at a front door step with two children sitting in white chairs next to the porch

    Investigation
    ICE violently arrested a US citizen and filmed it ‘like a documentary’, videos reveal

  • In June 2025 Christian Cerna was arrested by ICE after being accused of punching an officer at a protest. The violent arrest was filmed and later posted to social media

    Stateside with Kai and Carter
    How ICE turned its violent arrest of a US citizen into content

    Video42:36
  • Abel hugs a family member at his leaving party, he is preparing to leave LA after 38 years living as an undocumented migrant

    Documentary
    Abel leaves LA: self-deportation from Trump’s America

  • Donald Trump has fired his controversial US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, the public face of an immigration crackdown that prompted nationwide protests. Nosheen Iqbal speaks to Guardian US live news editor Chris Michael

    Video analysis
    Trump fires Kristi Noem: what does it mean for ICE?

    Video10:02

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