Beginning March 9th, people facing deportation have less time to file an appeal if they disagree with the ruling of an immigration judge. It went from 30 days to 10 days. Also, cases that are appealed will no longer get an automatic review. Advocates call it a rapid loss of due process. It's just one of the rules immigration court observers say are changing.

“I don't know what I'm going to do if I don't go back to my family [in California],” Estrada Juarez said. “It's going be really hard for me.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested at least 5,000 people in the San Diego region last year, according to federal data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.

This equates to an average of roughly 20 people arrested each day in San Diego and Imperial counties. And the total tally for 2025 is certain to be significantly higher because the arrest numbers are only updated through mid October.

The City of Boise stands alongside all of our residents and, as mayor, I remain committed as ever to create a city where folks of all backgrounds feel safe and welcome." — Mayor Lauren McLean

I know my friends just assume my parents have papers. I don’t think it has affected my friendships since I don’t talk about it. But I know it would, if ICE were to come. We are waiting for their immigration hearing now and it is scary.

The Trump administration has dramatically changed the profile of who is being arrested by increasing the use of “at-large” arrests in American communities by 600%, leading to an unprecedented deployment of federal law enforcement.

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." ―Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (January 13, 1943)

“Yes, in fact, I like to talk about it, it feels validating. I feel like being open about it and telling his story increases awareness of the issue. And without that, nothing can change. So, if anything, I’m a little too open about it, talking to strangers about it or whatever. But yeah, I feel it’s been an important aspect of working for change.” -R.R., 23-year-old U.S. citizen whose husband was incarcerated and then deported, Texas

"We made it clear to ICE and DHS that they were violating federal law." -U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, Angie Craig

“People all across the country care about their country. I care about my country, and I want a democracy.” -Carol Spindel, American Civil Liberties Union

“I'm insanely angry, completely heartbroken and devastated, and then just like longing and hoping that things get better.” -Ellison M., protestor

Because that random woman put them in jail just because she didn’t like them and just called the cops on them and they went to jail so easily, I wouldn’t tell anyone freely. People are crazy and I wouldn’t want to put them at risk or anything

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 23rd, refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown, a significant defeat for the president’s efforts to send troops to U.S. cities.

The justices declined the Republican administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. An appeals court also had refused to step in. The Supreme Court took more than two months to act.

And then, not even wanting to share with your friends at school that your dad got detained by ICE, right? So not really being able to share that with people at school in fear that there would be judgment or retaliation. Or exposure or identification by the wrong groups or people

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old freshman at Babson College, was flown to Honduras two days after being detained at Boston’s airport on Nov. 20, despite a court order on Nov. 21 that she remain in Massachusetts.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Sauter filed a response Wednesday in the case, saying the Boston judge who issued the order lacked jurisdiction because by then, Lopez Belloza was already in Texas on her way out of the country.

Her attorney argues she never knew about the longstanding removal order let alone how to challenge it, and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement made it nearly impossible to locate her as she was being deported

I don’t talk about any of this. I really hesitate, but I guess I am very cognizant of what information I share. So, yea, if I am applying to something and they ask me questions about my dad and they’re a little bit more personal I probably wouldn’t go through with it.” -M.A., 24-year-old, New Jersey. She was born in Mexico and able to qualify and benefit from DACA, her parents were not. When she was seven years old, her father was deported.

D.M., a 38-year-old, Illinois. Her sons were both deported and D.M. is someone who thinks of disclosure as a means of desahogarse. One of her sons was able to return to the United States post-deportation. Her other son, however, has been missing ever since he was deported.

So, then I had a period where I would cry a lot. Now, I still get a little shaky, but it’s become a lot easier for me to speak about it and more because I feel it’s become more important so that something could be done hopefully.” - J.H., a 28-year-old U.S.-born citizen who has multiple family members who have been deported, New Mexico

On October 22, 2025, Kim Erwin, a school counselor in Idaho’s public education system for nearly 30 years, opinion piece, Idaho children shouldn’t fear being detained by ICE while at school, was published in the Idaho Statesman. In her guest opinion, Erwin shared: “…I am absolutely horrified at the kinds of conversations I have had to have with Hispanic families lately who are panicking about ICE enforcement, whether they are U.S. citizens or not” and goes on to asks: “Who have we become?”

But I think other than that, to be quite honest, probably no one... My husband knows certain things, but I also am a very proud person like my father. I’ve learned not to share all of these things. I haven’t cried about that experience since I saw my dad, and I probably won’t cry about it ever again. So, no. I try to keep the more deep things to myself, which is not healthy, but I do ... How do I think it affects me? Firstly, through depression and anxiety. I don’t allow myself. I don’t allow people to see the most vulnerable parts of me. I don’t want to, and I am sure that affects me in many ways. I guess it manifests more through my anxiety and depression the most. And my ability to form strong relationships with people. I feel like I have issues with that

“I wouldn’t want to talk to a therapist like nah ‘cause sometimes they have to report things, sometimes by law they have to report things, whether it’s a child abuser and I’m not sure if immigration is in that category but yeah. That’s one thing I’m careful of.” -L.P, a 23-year-old U.S.-born citizen, New Jersey

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker continues to fight back against Trump, ICE, and the National Guard deployment in Chicago and Illinois. Pritzker spoke with MSNBC Senior Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff in Chicago, where he responded to the president's call for him to be jailed, saying Trump is "breaching the Constitution."