Week of June 4–10, 2025

ICE is launching "Operation At Large," a nationwide push to raise arrests that draws on more than 5,000 personnel from across federal law enforcement and up to 21,000 National Guard troops, according to an operation plan described to NBC News.

The plan uses 3,000 ICE agents, including 1,800 from Homeland Security Investigations, which normally works transnational crime; 2,000 employees from the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and Drug Enforcement Administration; 500 from Customs and Border Protection; and 250 IRS agents, some of whom would help locate people using tax information.

The push follows a mid-May meeting at which Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller pressed officials for 3,000 arrests a day. Officials in other agencies say the reassignments pull staff from national security work.

Source: NBC News

President Trump signed a proclamation banning entry by citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

People from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela who are outside the United States and do not hold a valid visa face heightened restrictions. The policy took effect the following Monday and has no end date.

Exemptions cover lawful permanent residents, dual nationals, some athletes traveling for major competitions, and Afghans who worked for the U.S. government. The order grew out of a January 20 directive for agencies to report on countries with "hostile attitudes" toward the United States. Trump linked it to an attack in Boulder, Colorado carried out by an Egyptian national who had overstayed a tourist visa; Egypt is not on the list.

Source: AP News

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 2,200 people in a single day, the most in the agency's history, an ICE spokesperson confirmed.

Hundreds of those arrested had been enrolled in the Alternative to Detention program, under which people considered no threat to public safety are released and monitored with ankle bracelets, phone apps and periodic check-ins. Attorneys said clients received mass text messages telling them to come in early for check-ins, then were arrested on arrival.

An NBC News reporter saw seven people led out of a New York City ICE office in handcuffs. One woman waiting outside said people were weighing whether to attend at all: missing an appointment can itself lead to a removal order.

Source: NBC News

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order blocking a proclamation President Trump signed on June 4 that would have barred noncitizens from entering the country to study at Harvard University for at least six months.

The proclamation, issued under the Immigration and Nationality Act, said Harvard is "no longer a trustworthy steward" of international students and directed the secretary of state to consider revoking visas held by Harvard students already in the country.

Harvard refiled its lawsuit the same week, arguing the order violates the First Amendment and misuses the statute. Burroughs had blocked a related attempt to strip the university's certification to enroll foreign students days earlier.

Source: ABC News

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a notice terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for Nepal, effective at 11:59 p.m. local time on August 5, 2025.

Nepal was designated for TPS in June 2015 after the earthquake that struck the country that April. A first termination in 2018 was reconsidered and rescinded in 2023, when the designation was also extended.

With the termination, Nepali TPS holders lose protection from removal and the work authorization tied to the designation once the effective date passes, unless they hold another immigration status or benefit.

Source: Federal Register

Lawmakers in Democratic-led states are strengthening laws that restrict state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

More than a dozen bills passed one chamber of the California Legislature in a single week, including a measure barring schools from letting federal immigration officers into nonpublic areas without a judicial warrant. In Connecticut, a bill before Governor Ned Lamont would let "any aggrieved person" sue municipalities over violations of the state's Trust Act. Days after it passed, the Department of Homeland Security listed Connecticut as a sanctuary jurisdiction.

ICE now lists 640 cooperative agreements with state and local agencies, close to a fivefold increase since January. The department later took its sanctuary list down after it wrongly included jurisdictions that support the administration.

Source: AP News

Foreign students told the Associated Press they feel targeted from several directions after months of policy changes, a shift from Trump's campaign promise to grant green cards to graduates of U.S. colleges.

Students described canceling trips home for fear of being denied reentry and scrubbing political content from their phones before flights. One freshman at Brigham Young University-Idaho said he deleted his social media apps on the flight back from Latvia.

The measures they cited include terminations of student records, the pause on new student visa interviews, the move to block foreign enrollment at Harvard, and the June 4 proclamation barring entry to attend Harvard, which a judge blocked the next day.

Source: AP News

Federal agents carried out immigration operations at several Los Angeles locations on June 6, including Ambiance Apparel in the garment district and a Home Depot in the Westlake district.

At Ambiance Apparel, agents detained workers inside the wholesaler and used flash-bang grenades and pepper spray on a crowd that gathered to protest around 1:30 p.m. A spokesperson for Homeland Security Investigations said 44 people were arrested administratively and one for obstruction, and that agents executed four search warrants.

Confrontations continued the next morning at a Home Depot in Paramount. The U.S. attorney for Los Angeles said more operations were planned and warned the public not to interfere.

Source: Los Angeles Times

ICE detained more than 2,200 people on Wednesday and more than 2,300 on Thursday, the two largest single-day arrest totals in the agency's history, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official.

Alongside the raw numbers, the agency has changed how it finds people, re-arresting immigrants already in removal proceedings but not detained, and making arrests at immigration court hearings and at scheduled check-ins. "Those two taken together are a complete sea change we have never seen in the history of immigration enforcement in the United States," said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council.

The push follows Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's call for at least 3,000 arrests a day, a target the agency has not reached.

Source: Politico

President Trump ordered 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles after two days of clashes between protesters and federal immigration agents, over the objection of Governor Gavin Newsom.

Thousands of people took to the streets on Sunday, blocking a major freeway and setting self-driving cars on fire. Law enforcement used tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bangs to disperse crowds. Troops were stationed along Alameda Street near City Hall.

Trump told reporters there were "violent people" in Los Angeles and "they're not gonna get away with it." Confrontations had begun on Friday in downtown Los Angeles and continued Saturday in Paramount, where agents used tear gas and pepper balls.

Source: AP News