Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested, detained, deported, and/or imprisoned many people that it has unilaterally determined to be undesirables.  At first, they claimed they would deport only criminals, but it has already gone beyond that.  We at the Free Press consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide.  It appears the government will revoke Visa's to get rid of undesirable students.  This article will be updated as long as is necessary.

RECENT VICTIMS:

Aditya Harsono,  who had been living in Marshall and working as a hospital supply chain manager, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on March 27, The 33-year-old had been legally residing in the United States until March 23, when his visa was unexpectedly revoked. He is currently being held at Kandiyohi County Jail.  story here

Kilmar Abrego Garcia:  a father of three and a protected resident who was deported and imprisoned in El Salvador while accused of being a gang member.  Attorneys for Abrego Garcia said there's no evidence of gang membership.  story here

Juan Francisco Méndez:  A Guatemalan immigrant (29) with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday in New Bedford after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive.   story here.  Federal agents smash car glass, detain Guatemalan immigrant in New Bedford

Merwil Gutiérrez: [a Venezuelan father's] 19-year-old son, Merwil Gutiérrez, and another 237 Venezuelans. He had no criminal record, neither in Venezuela nor the U.S., nor did he have any tattoos — one of the features that the U.S. police used to link them to the Tren de Aragua gang. But none of that stopped him from being arrested. “I feel like my son was kidnapped,” said [Wilmer] Gutiérrez in Spanish."  story here.    special mention for hearbreaking

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian man involved in protests at Columbia University, was taken into custody by federal agents Monday when he arrived at a citizenship interview in Vermont, his attorneys said in court filings.  Story here

Felipe Zapata Velázquez :  from Colombia, was a third-year undergraduate student with an F-1 student visa studying at the University in Gainesville, Florida, when he was apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.  Zapata Velázquez was transferred to the notorious ICE Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade on April 1, and as of late Monday, no one had heard from him.   story here

Noemi Berrios, 52:  Mother and daughter's car on a street in Westminster was suddenly surrounded by ICE agents, with at least one wearing a face covering. The agents didn’t present a warrant, according to Cruz Berrios. They shouted orders at the mother to get out of the car.  When they refused, an officer broke her car window, unlocked the door, and removed the mother from the vehicle.  story here.

Camila Munoz, 41 years old, married, living in Wisconsin.  Originally from Peru, overstay a work-study visa during Covid.  Imprisoned in Louisiana for 49 days.  Story here  

Alireza Doroudi, 32, a doctoral student majoring in mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama, was detained by officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement before 5 a.m. March 25 at his off-campus apartment in Tuscaloosa. Doroudi, originally from Iran, is now being held at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, Louisiana.  story here

Badar Khan Suri  A federal judge has blocked immigration officials from deporting a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar who was detained by the Trump administration earlier this week.  Locked in a room with no bed for 2 weeks, given used underwear.  (4/4) Story here

Rumeysa Ozturk:  The 30-year-old was arrested and physically restrained by immigration officers near her apartment, close to Tufts University’s Somerville campus where she was a PhD student, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai told CNN.  (4/4)  Six plainclothes officers surrounded Ozturk as she walked alone, neighborhood surveillance video appears to show. The officers did not show their badges until she was restrained, the video shows.   story here

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a doctor and assistant professor with a visa to work in Rhode Island, was deported to her native Lebanon over the weekend despite an ongoing dispute over her detention by federal agents and a court order intended to keep her in the United States. (4/4)  story here. Doğukan Günaydın 28, a Turkish citizen, says two plainclothes federal officers arrested him on the street outside his St. Paul home while he was on his way to class Thursday.  Story here Kilmar Abrego Garcia The Trump administration admitted in a court filing Monday that an "administrative error" and an "oversight" resulted in a Salvadoran man's deportation and imprisonment in a supermax prison in El Salvador, despite a legal order prohibiting his removal there. Story here.

Momodou Taal: U.K. and the Gambia, am a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell.
Returning from honeymoon in Puerto Rico. Story here

Jasmine Mooney: Detained Trying to Renew Visa 2/15. Canadian, sent to Louisiana. Story here

Kevenson & Sherlie Jean.  They have lived in the Florida Panhandle since being granted humanitarian parole by the U.S. government in July 2023. Their specific parole program was available to residents of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and it required them, in addition to passing rigorous background checks, to have a financial sponsor. Story here.

Franco Caraballo, CBS News has learned that a barber from Venezuela was among those on the list for the deportation flights even though documents show he has no criminal record. Married, sent to El Salvador. Story here

Andry Hernandez: A Venezuelan asylum seeker, gay man, no gang affiliation, deported to El Salvador. Story here.

Mahmoud Khalil : Columbia student, a Palestinian, green card holder, a pro-Palestinian activist. Story here

Yunseo Chung: legal permanent resident and junior who has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school Story here

Mother and 3 children (names not revealed). Taken from a dairy farm in New York to Texas, 1800 miles away. Governor of New York Hochul suspects ICE was looking for an actual criminal. 
Story here.

Bachir Atallah was not kidnapped or arrested, simply terrorized at the border.  An American citizen says he and his wife were detained for hours by US border agents when they returned to the United States after a short trip to Canada.

  story here. 

Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (The Bill of Rights)

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

 

Consortium News printed this article:  Inside US Detention-Center Brutality

Green card holders, travelers caught in Trump's immigration crackdown (Oregon Public Broadcasting)

Out of sight, Krome guards would beat men regularly and force women to trade sex for the promise of getting out. The Herald had started reporting on all of this, even as the immigration agency barred its reporters from the detention center.

Article updated on 4/4, 4/9, 4/11, 4/15