ICE Raids and Illegal Detentions
Summary
Actionable information on ICE raids, unidentified and militarized squads on US streets, illegal detentions and illegal deportations.
The Trump regime bas deployed a masked and militarized force into US communities, often without request or permission from local governments. Their actions have too often resulted in illegal detainment and deportation, destruction of personal property, as well as physical injury and murder. Those who nonviolently expose the illegal tactics are often targeted as well.
The Rapid Response Network provides a way for people to respond to fear and anxiety in our community as a result of the increase in immigration enforcement, ICE raids and other attacks against our communities.
Sonoma County is committed to all who are in need and are eligible for services, regardless of immigration status. All County immigrant residents, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, undocumented residents, refugees, or residents with any other immigration status, are valued and are integral members of our social, cultural, and economic fabric.
See where and when people were shot or injured in ICE raids related to Trump’s reckless deployment of poorly-trained, masked people into U.S. cities.
Monitoring immigration enforcement, deportations, and ICE activities across the United States to keep communities informed and protected.
Working with and educating immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to help build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
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Jan
23
2025
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Detainee DeathGenry Ruiz Guillén, 29, of Honduras, dies in detention. |
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Jan
29
2025
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Detainee DeathSerawit Gezahegn Dejene, 45, of Ethiopia, dies in detention. |
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Feb
20
2025
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Detainee DeathMaksym Chernyak, a Ukrainian citizen, dies in detention. |
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Feb
23
2025
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Detainee DeathJuan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, 44, of the Dominican Republic, dies in detention. |
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Apr
8
2025
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Detainee DeathBrayan Garzón-Rayo, 27, of Colombia, dies in detention. |
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Apr
16
2025
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Detainee DeathNhon Ngoc Nguyen, 55, dies in detention. |
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Apr
25
2025
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Detainee DeathMarie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old citizen of Haiti, dies in detention. |
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May
5
2025
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Detainee DeathAbelardo Avellaneda Delgado, 68, dies in detention. |
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Jun
7
2025
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Detainee DeathJesus Molina-Veya, a 45-year-old citizen of Mexico, dies in detention. |
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Jun
23
2025
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Detainee DeathJohnny Noviello, 49, a lawful US resident, dies in detention. |
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Jun
26
2025
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Detainee DeathIsidro Pérez, 75, of Cuba, dies in detention. |
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Jul
19
2025
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Detainee DeathTien Xuan Phan, 55, dies in detention. |
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Aug
5
2025
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Detainee DeathChaofeng Ge, 32, of China, dies in detention. |
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Aug
31
2025
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Detainee DeathLorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, dies in detention. |
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Sep
8
2025
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Detainee DeathOscar Rascon Duarte, 58, of Mexico, dies in detention. |
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Sep
18
2025
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Detainee DeathSantos Banegas Reyes, 42, dies in detention. |
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Sep
22
2025
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Detainee DeathIsmael Ayala-Uribe, 39, a US resident since the age of 5, dies in detention. |
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Sep
24
2025
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Detainee DeathNorlan Guzman-Fuentes, 37, of El Salvador, dies in detention. |
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Sep
29
2025
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Detainee DeathMiguel Ángel García Medina, 31, of Mexico, dies in detention. |
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Sep
29
2025
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Detainee DeathHuabing Xie, of China, dies in detention. |
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Oct
4
2025
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Detainee DeathLeo Cruz-Silva, of Mexico, dies in detention. |
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Oct
11
2025
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Detainee DeathHasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, 67, if Jordan, dies in detention. |
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Oct
23
2025
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Detainee DeathJosué Castro Rivera, 25, of Honduras, dies in detention. |
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Oct
23
2025
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Detainee DeathGabriel Garcia Aviles, 54, of Mexico, dies in detention. |
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Oct
25
2025
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Detainee DeathKai Yin Wong, 63, of China, dies in detention. |
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Dec
5
2025
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Detainee DeathFrancisco Gaspar-Andrés, 48, of Guatemala, dies in detention. |
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Dec
6
2025
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Detainee DeathPete Sumalo Montejo, 72, a lawful permanent resident, dies in detention. |
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Sep
8
2025
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Detainee DeathShiraz Fatehali Sachwani, 48, of Pakistan, dies in detention. |
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Dec
12
2025
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Detainee DeathJean Wilson Brutus, 41, of Haiti, dies in detention. |
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Dec
14
2025
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Detainee DeathFouad Saeed Abdulkadir, 46, of Eritrea, dies in detention. |
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Dec
14
2025
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Detainee DeathDelvin Francisco Rodriguez, 39, of Nicaragua, dies in detention. |
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Dec
15
2025
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Detainee DeathNenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, of Bulgaria, dies in detention. |
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Jan
7
2025
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Detainee DeathJean Wilson Brutus, 41, of Haiti, dies in detention. |
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Dec
12
2025
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Murder of Renée Nicole Macklin GoodRenée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old citizen of the US, is fatally shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. Video footage from multiple angles disproves the lie that Good was driving agressively toward the agent. |
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Jan
10
2026
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Congress Members Blocked by ICEThree Minnesota congress members, Angie Craig, Kelly Morrison, and Ilhan Omar, are blocked from overseeing an ICE facility near Minneapolis. |
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- Immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and their allies are no longer safe, evidenced by the tragic killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and CBP officers.
- There has been an unusually large proportion of shootings by ICE involving moving vehicles. At least 5 of the people shot in this way were US citizens.
- The Trump regime has repeatedly attempted to justify shooting at moving vehicles by claiming that the drivers were weaponizing their vehicles. However, in many cases, video evidence shows drivers attempting to maneuver away from agents at the time the shots were fired.
- Many US police agencies, including the federal Department of Justice, have trained officers not to fire into moving vehicles or have banned the practice outside of rare circumstances, such as a driver shooting at people or already attempting to run them over.
- The increased activity from ICE and CBP nationwide stems from an inhumane quota directive from Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to arrest up to 3,000 immigrants each day.
- The raids have created a climate of fear and anxiety for immigrant communities across the country as ICE and CBP do not target immigrants with criminal convictions as they promised they would.
- In 2025, Congress gave DHS an unprecedented $170 billion for immigration enforcement to dramatically increase their capacity to target, detain, and deport immigrants across the country.
- The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the primary agency responsible for the apprehension, detention, and deportation of immigrants. ICE deportation officers conduct the majority of apprehensions of immigrants in the interior of the country.
- ICE employs more than 22,000 personnel and operates over 200 detainment facilities, many through private contracts. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last year has significantly increased the number of ICE deportation officers and detention facilities, turbocharging the agency to conduct raids across the country.
- The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is responsible for border security. CBP officers have broad authority to stop, question, and search individuals and their property at all US ports of entry, often without a warrant or probable cause.
- Historically, CBP officers limited their operations to within 100 miles of a border or port of entry. However, both the CBP and ICE have the authority to interrogate any person they believe may be an immigrant and make warrantless arrests anywhere in the US, not just near a border.
- The Trump regime has increasingly used CBP officers in roving patrols throughout the country. It was long-time CBP officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a US citizen who nonviolently came to the aid of another protester.
- As of 2026, there are approximately 73,000 immigrants held in ICE detention. This is the highest number ever recorded and is an 84% increase from January 2025.
- Over 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal record, and 95% have never been convicted of a violent crime.
- 32 people died in ICE detention during 2025--the agency's deadliest year in more than two decades.
- Although previous presidents were also aggressive in deporting immigrants, in particular Obama and Biden, Trump's efforts to increase the number of detentions has gone beyond previous norms. ICE has targeted people at workplaces, farms, university campuses, private homes, as well as during random traffic stops. The administration rescinded a bipartisan policy that once limited raids in schools, places of worship, hospitals, and other sensitive areas.
- Although Trump has acknowledged that his imigration policies are damaging the US economy, he has persisted.
- Thre Trump regime has sought to penalize sanctuary jurisdictions--cities and states that legally limit cooperation with ICE--through slapsuits and the illegal withholding of federal funds.
- The Trump regime's increase in deportations often comes at the expense of due process rights. They prioritize speed and political gain over the individual legal protections.
- The Trump regime's divisive raids distract from more realistic and practical solutions that would better address the significant and legitimate need to reform the US immigration system.
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Arendt also theorized that, owing to its peculiar ideology, “totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within”
She further contends that Jewry was not the operative factor in the Holocaust, but merely a convenient proxy, and that totalitarianism in Germany was, in the end, about terror and consistency, not eradicating Jews only. This is consistent with recent research indicating that Hitler greatly admired and emulated US methods for the extermination of Native Americans and the subjugation of enslaved Africans. A key concept is the application of Kant’s phrase “Radical Evil”, which she applied to the people who created and carried out such tyranny and their depiction of their victims as “Superfluous People”.
The book is regularly listed as one of the best non-fiction books of the 20th century, however due to her couragious recognition that similar forces were at work in Zionist Israel and Capitalist America, her ideas are often ignored or misquoted in corporate media and mainstream academic research.
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I, and then traces the emergence of racism as an ideology, and its modern application as an “ideological weapon for imperialism”, by the Boers during the Great Trek (1830s–40s) in the early 19th century.
Arendt argues that totalitarianism was a “novel form of government,” that “differs essentially from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that it applied terror to subjugate mass populations rather than just political adversaries.
Arendt also theorized that, owing to its peculiar ideology, “totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within”
She further contends that Jewry was not the operative factor in the Holocaust, but merely a convenient proxy, and that totalitarianism in Germany was, in the end, about terror and consistency, not eradicating Jews only. This is consistent with recent research indicating that Hitler greatly admired and emulated US methods for the extermination of Native Americans and the subjugation of enslaved Africans. A key concept is the application of Kant’s phrase “Radical Evil”, which she applied to the people who created and carried out such tyranny and their depiction of their victims as “Superfluous People”.
The book is regularly listed as one of the best non-fiction books of the 20th century, however due to her couragious recognition that similar forces were at work in Zionist Israel and Capitalist America, her ideas are often ignored or misquoted in corporate media and mainstream academic research.
Published: May 6, 2026|
Updated: Jun 10, 2026