{"id":49004,"date":"2026-07-03T13:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=49004"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:12:29","slug":"armed-with-new-slush-fund-lawless-and-rogue-ice-arrests-10000-in-just-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/armed-with-new-slush-fund-lawless-and-rogue-ice-arrests-10000-in-just-five-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed With New Slush Fund, \u2018Lawless and Rogue\u2019 ICE Arrests 10,000+ in Just Five Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Protestors<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrive to confront protesters outside the Delaney Hall detention facility on June 11, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo by Andres Kudacki\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those arrested in the recent surge include a 56-year-old Catholic nun from Nigeria.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jake Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jul 02, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordered by the Trump White House<\/a> to aggressively increase arrest rates, federal immigration<\/a> officials have reportedly detained more than 10,000 people in just the last five days, intensifying fear in communities across the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times<\/a>, which was first to report<\/a> the new detention figures late Wednesday, noted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> (ICE) officials were \u201ctold that 2,000 arrests a day was the new standard for enforcement.\u201d The agency, flush with cash following President Donald Trump\u2019s signing of a reconciliation package containing another $70 billion for immigration enforcement<\/a>, has been instructed to assign 80% of its officers to \u201carrest operations,\u201d according to the Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Trump administration<\/a> claims to be targeting the \u201cworst of the worst,\u201d but available data shows that the percentage of people arrested by ICE despite having no criminal convictions has tended to rise<\/a> during the agency\u2019s mass detention efforts. On Sunday, ICE briefly detained<\/a> a 56-year-old nun from Nigeria<\/a> as she walked to church in McAllen, Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe geniuses at ICE just arrested a Catholic nun, who practices as a nurse, as she was walking to church,\u201d Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a> (D-RI) wrote<\/a> in response to Sister Leticia Ugboaja\u2019s detention. \u201cOur Republican colleagues think they need even more money. Had enough?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times reported that immigration attorneys across the US \u201chave been on alert\u201d as ICE arrests surge, though much more quietly than earlier blitzes in Minneapolis\u2014where federal immigration agents killed two US citizens\u2014and other major cities, where groups of armed and masked officers roamed the streets and menaced neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCindy Blandon, an immigration attorney in Miami, said that one of her clients, a Nicaraguan father of two children<\/a>, had an immigration court hearing set for 2027, but was arrested by ICE on Monday during a routine check-in,\u201d the Times reported. \u201cAnd in Utah<\/a>, Ysabel Lonazco, an immigration attorney, has noticed an uptick as well… One of her clients, Arturo, a 48-year-old Mexican man, was arrested in Salt Lake City on his way to a soccer game on Sunday, according to his wife, Veronica. She said the arrest had shattered their family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE also appears to be ignoring a federal judge\u2019s order last week<\/a> curtailing arrests at immigration courthouses. According to The Intercept:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested an Ecuadorian man at a court at 26 Federal Plaza and a man from the Dominican Republic<\/a> at another court at 290 Broadway, both in Lower Manhattan. The arrests continued on Monday, when ICE agents detained a third man, originally from Guatemala<\/a>, at 290 Broadway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In legal filings challenging the detentions of the men taken Thursday, advocates with the nonprofit Make the Road New York accused ICE of not only violating their clients\u2019 right to due process, but also of brazenly flouting a federal court order.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, told The Intercept that \u201cwe\u2019re witnessing ICE, yet again, operate in a lawless and rogue fashion and not following court orders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re supposedly a nation under the rule of law<\/a>, and our judicial branch has said that this agency must stop engaging in this lawless behavior, and they continue to do so,\u201d said Awawdeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE is currently headed by Acting Director David Venturella, a former private prison executive<\/a>. A record number of people have died in ICE custody under the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Trump announced<\/a> that he intends to nominate former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer to lead ICE in a permanent capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcos Charles, the head of ICE\u2019s deportation wing, cheered the recent arrest surge in an email to agency personnel earlier this week. On Saturday, ICE officers arrested 2,400 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to personally thank each of you for your extraordinary efforts this past weekend,\u201d Charles wrote, according to the Times. \u201cThrough your dedication, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to our mission, enforcement and removal operations achieved remarkable operational results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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