Arlington County, Virginia, governed by a Democrat-led board just outside Washington, D.C., is taking aggressive steps to block local police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. The board is now considering eliminating Section 7 of its Trust Policy, which currently allows officers to alert U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when illegal aliens are arrested.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested a suspected Saudi terrorist in Colorado on May 6 after he was released from the Arapahoe County Jail, despite having an active immigration removal order. The arrest has sparked renewed concerns over sanctuary policies that prevent local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities.
Three Democratic lawmakers from New Jersey—Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez—alleged they were "roughed up" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during an attempted oversight visit to the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark on Friday.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on May 9, 2025, during a confrontation at the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark, New Jersey.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student recently released from ICE detention, defended the ongoing campus protests during a Friday appearance on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live.” Mahdawi claimed the university administration has “pushed students too far” by refusing to meet their demands regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict and called on the school to “divest from war and invest in peace.”
An illegal Honduran national, Hyrum Baquedano-Rodriguez, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on May 2 in Fairfax, Virginia, after local authorities dropped serious charges against him, including child abduction and home invasion.
The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill to expand the state's protection for immigrants and limit law enforcement's immigration activities.
