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  • El Cajon business, hiring manager plead guilty after fed raid over undocumented workers

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    San Diego Powder & Protective Coatings in El Cajon. (Photo courtesy of Google Street View)

    An El Cajon-area business that was raided by federal agents earlier this year pleaded guilty Wednesday along with its hiring manager to federal charges related to employing undocumented workers.

    In March, federal agents swarmed San Diego Powder & Protective Coatings’ warehouse on Magnolia Avenue and detained numerous individuals at the business, which specializes in paint and coatings, including for military and government vessels.

    Prosecutors said the company’s general manager, John Washburn, employed undocumented workers and let them live inside the company’s warehouse. Washburn pleaded guilty earlier this year to engaging in a pattern or practice of employing aliens, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service.

    On Wednesday, the company pleaded guilty and as part of its plea agreement, admitted Washburn and others hired people who did not have authorization to work in the United States.

    The company also agreed to forfeit $230,000 it gained as a result and agreed to take part in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers (IMAGE) program. The program involves an agreement by participating companies to audits verifying that only people authorized to work in the U.S. are employed and training on topics like fraudulent documents and forced labor.

    The company’s hiring manager, Karli Buxton, 41, also pleaded guilty and admitted she was aware some employees presented fraudulent documents indicating they were authorized to work in the country.

    According to a criminal complaint filed in Washburn’s case, the investigation into the business involved an undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent who obtained a job there with a fraudulent Permanent Resident card and Social Security number.

    The agent secured the job with the help of a “confidential source” who worked there and told Washburn he was looking to get his “friend” a job.

    The complaint alleges that during the conversation, it was clear Washburn was aware the “friend” was purportedly undocumented and that multiple other employees at the business were also undocumented.

    Washburn’s plea agreement includes admissions that he knew at least 10 of the company’s workers were undocumented immigrants and that he had discussed with other managers that some employees weren’t legally authorized to work in the United States. Those discussions led to only assigning employees with “good paperwork” to work at military bases due to the extensive screening procedures on-base.

    San Diego Powder & Protective Coatings admitted in its plea agreement that it knowingly avoided sending undocumented workers to military bases or ports of entry due to stricter screening procedures at those locations.


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  • Young mother deported from Minnesota to Honduras without her infant

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    After being deported from Minnesota last week, a young mother says she’s back in Honduras without her 8-month-old child. 

    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar, 22, lived in St. Cloud with her partner. They moved to South Dakota shortly before having a child in March.

    In a Zoom conversation translated from Spanish to English from her parents’ house in Honduras, Menjivar Aguilar told WCCO about the moment she was detained by federal agents at a September fingerprinting appointment for an approved work permit. 

    “‘Is this your baby?’ I said yes. And soon after they asked if I was breastfeeding. I said no,” said Menjivar Aguilar through a translator. “They arrested me in handcuffs behind my back.”  

    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar with her child

    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar


    Kelly Clark is Menjivar Aguilar’s immigration lawyer.

    “She signed something that they told her was, ‘If you are removed you can take your baby with you,’ and she signed that document, but at the end she was removed without her baby,” Clark said.

    Menjivar Aguilar explains her two-week journey to the U.S. when she was 17, crossing the Rio Grande with her younger brother, all to escape a gang who was trying to recruit them, and to be with their dad in the U.S. He’s since been deported, too.

    The assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released this statement: “On September 29, ICE arrested Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar, an illegal alien from Honduras. She illegally entered the U.S. on April 13, 2021, near Eagle Pass, Texas, and was RELEASED into this country by the Biden administration. She received full due process and was ordered removed by an immigration judge on October 12, 2022. This administration is not going to ignore the rule of law.”

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    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar with her child.

    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar


    Her lawyer confirms she had the outstanding order of removal from 2022 after missing a court date, which Menjivar Aquilar says she didn’t know about as her father handled her documents and mail.

    “After that removal order happened, she was given deferred action, which is literally a ‘we’re not going to deport you,’” Clark said. “It is discretionary. It can be revoked, but it wasn’t revoked”

    “All I want is to be with my family, my baby and my partner,” Menjivar Aguilar said.

    When Menjivar Aguilar was detained in September, she was approved for a special immigrant juvenile visa. Her attorney is now working with the family to see if they can get her and her baby back together.

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  • Young mother deported from Minnesota to Honduras without her infant

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    After being deported from Minnesota last week, a young mother says she’s back in Honduras without her 8-month-old child. 

    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar, 22, lived in St. Cloud with her partner. They moved to South Dakota shortly before having a child in March.

    In a Zoom conversation translated from Spanish to English from her parents’ house in Honduras, Menjivar Aguilar told WCCO about the moment she was detained by federal agents at a September fingerprinting appointment for an approved work permit. 

    “‘Is this your baby?’ I said yes. And soon after they asked if I was breastfeeding. I said no,” said Menjivar Aguilar through a translator. “They arrested me in handcuffs behind my back.”  

    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar with her child

    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar


    Kelly Clark is Menjivar Aguilar’s immigration lawyer.

    “She signed something that they told her was, ‘If you are removed you can take your baby with you,’ and she signed that document, but at the end she was removed without her baby,” Clark said.

    Menjivar Aguilar explains her two-week journey to the U.S. when she was 17, crossing the Rio Grande with her younger brother, all to escape a gang who was trying to recruit them, and to be with their dad in the U.S. He’s since been deported, too.

    The assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released this statement: “On September 29, ICE arrested Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar, an illegal alien from Honduras. She illegally entered the U.S. on April 13, 2021, near Eagle Pass, Texas, and was RELEASED into this country by the Biden administration. She received full due process and was ordered removed by an immigration judge on October 12, 2022. This administration is not going to ignore the rule of law.”

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    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar with her child.

    Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar


    Her lawyer confirms she had the outstanding order of removal from 2022 after missing a court date, which Menjivar Aquilar says she didn’t know about as her father handled her documents and mail.

    “After that removal order happened, she was given deferred action, which is literally a ‘we’re not going to deport you,’” Clark said. “It is discretionary. It can be revoked, but it wasn’t revoked”

    “All I want is to be with my family, my baby and my partner,” Menjivar Aguilar said.

    When Menjivar Aguilar was detained in September, she was approved for a special immigrant juvenile visa. Her attorney is now working with the family to see if they can get her and her baby back together.

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  • The number of non-criminal detainees arrested by ICE has surged by 2,000% under Trump. These charts show who’s in detention.

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    The number of immigration detainees without criminal records who are held in federal detention centers after getting arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has increased by over 2,000% since the start of the second Trump administration in January, according to official government data.

    The statistics, published online by ICE as part of a transparency requirement mandated by Congress, illustrate the wide-ranging scope of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

    On Nov. 16, the government figures show, ICE was holding 65,135 people in detention facilities throughout the U.S., the highest level ever publicly reported by the agency, which was created in 2003 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. CBS News first reported the record detention levels earlier this month, citing internal data.

    The official figures indicate that 30,986 – or 48% — of the ICE detainees in custody as of Nov. 16 lacked any criminal charges or convictions in the U.S. and were being held solely because of civil violations of U.S. immigration law. ICE calls them “immigration violators.”

    Those with criminal convictions represented about 26%, or 17,171, of all ICE detainees on Nov. 16. The data show 16,978 individuals — another 26% of ICE’s detainee population — had criminal charges. 

    The statistics released by ICE do not specify the severity and nature of the charges or convictions for the detainees with criminal histories. They could range from violent or serious felonies, to misdemeanors and immigration-related crimes, such as illegal re-entry into the U.S.

    Illegal presence in the U.S., including after overstaying a visa, is not a crime by itself and is generally handled as a civil matter in immigration court. While illegal entry into the U.S. is a federal misdemeanor crime for a first-time offense with a 5-year statute of limitations, those accused of doing so typically have their cases treated as civil immigration violations, absent additional criminal activity.

    While all three categories of ICE detainees — immigration violators, those with criminal charges and those with criminal convictions — have grown under the second Trump administration, the statistics published by the agency indicate the non-criminal group has seen the most rapid and pronounced rise. 

    Number of people in ICE detention by criminality (Line chart)

    ICE’s detention population includes individuals arrested by that agency, typically in communities or jails inside of the U.S., as well as detainees transferred by Customs and Border Protection. Most detainees initially arrested by CBP, most commonly along the U.S.-Mexico border, historically have lacked criminal histories in the U.S. because many have not lived in the country for significant periods or at all. 

    As of Nov. 16, 52,510 of ICE’s detainees had been initially taken into custody by that agency, while 12,625 had been arrested by CBP.  

    When focusing solely on ICE detainees initially arrested by that agency — and not CBP — the figures show a 2,143% spike in non-criminal detainees from Jan. 26 (945) to Nov. 16 (21,194). The number of detainees initially arrested by ICE who have convictions or criminal charges increased by 73% and 226%, respectively, during that same time period, according to the ICE data.

    The latest figures also indicate that for the first time, non-criminal detainees arrested by ICE outnumber those with criminal convictions. From Sept. 21 to Nov. 16, non-criminal detainees increased by about a third, while the number of detained with criminal convictions remained nearly flat. 

    The numbers underscore that while the Trump administration has said its deportation effort would mainly focus on criminals deemed to be “the worst of the worst,” a growing share of those swept up under its crackdown are immigrants accused of living in the U.S. illegally but who otherwise lack any criminal history.  

    Total number of people in ICE detention since January (Line chart)

    At the same time, some senior Trump administration officials, including border czar Tom Homan and acting ICE director Todd Lyons, have said anyone encountered by immigration authorities and found to be in the U.S. illegally will be arrested, even if they’re not the intended target of an operation. Those so-called “collateral arrests” had been largely banned under Biden-era rules the Trump administration scrapped.

    The government has the legal authority to arrest, detain and process for deportation anyone suspected of violating U.S. immigration law, irrespective of any criminal activity. But some of those individuals may be eligible for forms of legal relief, such as asylum, that can stall or halt their deportation. 

    In a statement, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the administration is “targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens—including murderers, rapists, gang members, pedophiles, and terrorists.” She said 70% of those arrested by ICE had criminal charges or convictions, but did not specify a timeframe or offer a breakdown to support the percentage.

    McLaughlin also said detainees listed as non-criminals could have warrants or criminal histories outside of the U.S., or otherwise pose a threat to national security. But DHS has not released data showing how many people fall into those categories.

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  • Protesters denounce private aviation services alleged to be used in ICE deportations

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    On Saturday, protesters took the streets outside of Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. Their concern was regarding deportation flights administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 

    The group was organized by local nonprofit 50501.

    “We’re here to protest Signature Aviation as their aiding ICE deportation flights,” said one of the protesters while chanting.

    Roughly 40 protesters were on-site and marched between Terminal 2 and Terminal 1 on 70th Street. 

    70th Street is also where Signature Aviation, who provides private services across the world, can be found. WCCO has not been able to confirm if Signature Aviation is involved with deportation flights.

    Community members said they’re attending the protest to support immigrant neighbors.

    “They have as many violations as somebody who didn’t renew their car registration. To see someone getting treated so inhumane sickens me,” said Kristin of Saint Paul.

    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed during her October visit to the Twin Cities that “our local authorities have boots-on-the-ground.”

    “Just since January, they have removed 4,300 individuals off of our streets,” said Noem during her October visit.

    “They’re using the private terminal here at Signature and straight-up using flights from Denver Air Connection,” said Drew Harmon, the Chair for Minnesota 5051.

    Key Lime Air, who’s the parent company of Denver Air Connection said:

    Key Lime Air respects the right of all individuals to peacefully protest and share their opinions. As a matter of policy, we are unable to discuss our charter operations. Our focus remains on conducting ALL Key Lime Air flights in accordance with the highest federally mandated safety standards

    The Minneapolis Republican Party told WCCO in a statement:

    Without evidence of the brutality spoken of, if federal immigration law is being enforced, that is what is important. We fully welcome immigrants who follow our legal process.

    “It’s good to be a part of a crowd who feel that same ‘shock-to-your-core passion’ like we need to go out and do something.” Kristin added.

    WCCO reached out to Signature Aviation and ICE for confirmation and comment but haven’t heard back. The Metropolitan Airports Commission says they don’t coordinate or get notice of general aviation or non-commercial flights at MSP. This includes government owned or operated aircraft.

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  • Family member of 2 arrested by ICE in St. Paul expresses concern for their well-being

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    On Tuesday, around 9 a.m., Erik Godinez missed a call from his mother. When he called back, her words made his heart sink.

    “She answered and said that ICE had raided Bro-Tex and that they are going to be taking my uncle and my cousin,” Godinez said. 

    He raced to Bro-Tex, Inc., the paper distribution company in St. Paul, Minnesota. By that time, a crowd had formed, with community activists and neighbors answering calls on social media to respond to what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security later said was an operation that resulted in 14 people being arrested on “immigration operations.” 

    The federal agency has declined to provide any additional information, including what charges the 14 people face.   

    As protesters and federal officers clashed, Godinez tried to work out what happened to his family members. 

    It wasn’t until Wednesday afternoon that he learned that they were both being held at the Sherburne County Jail, which is being used as an ICE detention facility due to an existing agreement between the sheriff’s office and the federal agency. Godinez said he’s barely slept or eaten for about two days.

    “What could I have really done? And I just keep playing that image back in my head,” Godinez said, wondering aloud if he could have done more to protect his family. 

    Federal officials took more than 48 hours to provide any details on the operation, where employees were detained and officers pepper-sprayed protesters outside.

    Godinez said that he is concerned for his uncle, Camilo, and his cousin, Jaime. While he said both are undocumented, he noted they were working towards legal citizenship. For Camilo, it’s a story of heartbreak. He had been dreaming of marrying his girlfriend, an American in St. Paul.

    “He was a selfless person. He would put the family before himself. He was very, very big on that,” Godinez said. “He left behind someone, a person deeply in love with him and the person that he is. She is completely distraught about that.” 

    Godinez said both his cousin and uncle are making the choice to self-deport, a process that makes him afraid for their safety. He said Camilo has not been back to Mexico in more than 15 years, and cartels are known to prey on those in vulnerable situations crossing the southern border.

    According to two GoFundMe posts, at least two of the 14 people detained are looking to legally fight to remain in the country. 

    Karla Alarcon Hernandez wrote in support of her father, Carlos Alberto Alcaron Avila’s GoFundMe page, which has raised $38,174 by Friday evening. She stated that they need help after unexpectedly losing their main provider. 

    “Our lives changed in one moment. My dad has lived in the Saint Paul area for many years, working long hours and doing everything he can to care for us. He has no criminal record, no history of harm, nothing but a life of hard work and love for his family,” Hernandez said. 

    Their goal is for Avila to come home. That’s also the goal for Alejandra Villagrana, who spoke to WCCO about losing her father, Leonel Villagrana Flores, and uncle, Isaias Villagrana Flores, in Tuesday’s operation.

    “It hurts that this is happening right now and they’re being treated this way when all they’ve done is work hard for their families here and in Mexico,” Villagrana said. “It’s inhumane and I don’t think this is right.”

    A Bro-Tex spokesperson on Thursday declined to answer questions about the operation or any potential charges business owners face for allegedly employing undocumented workers. On Friday, the business was still in operation with multiple employees going in and out of the facility.

    As of Friday night, the federal warrants filed on Tuesday remain sealed. 

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  • Maryland mother deported to Vietnam after being detained and released by ICE

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    A Maryland mother was deported to Vietnam, her attorney confirmed Wednesday, after she was detained and released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier in the year. 

    Melissa Tran was initially taken into ICE custody in May and was ordered to be released in October by a judge who found the government was unnecessarily holding her. Despite being reunited with her family, she still faced deportation. 

    During her initial detainment, Tran spent several days in custody in Baltimore before she was moved to Louisiana, Arizona, and Tacoma, Washington.

    The mother of four owns a nail salon in Hagerstown, Maryland. Her husband, Danny Hoang, told CBS News Baltimore Thursday he is now running the business alone while also raising their children. 

    “ICE arrested [Tran], a criminal illegal alien from Vietnam, [who] has a rap sheet including forgery, larceny, fraud, and writing fraudulent checks. An immigration judge issued her a final order of removal in 2004. She had over 20 years to leave and received full due process,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

    According to her attorney, Tran came to the U.S. from Vietnam legally in the 1990s as a refugee with a Green Card. 

    In 2001, she admitted to stealing checks from her employer while she was a teenager. She pleaded guilty and was ordered for removal in 2003. However, Vietnam would not accept her as they refused to take back immigrants who came to the U.S. before 1995. So, Tran was able to stay in the U.S. with the requirement that she complete regular immigration check-ins. 

    According to her attorney, Tran has completed those check-ins for more than 20 years. However, during a check-in in Baltimore in May, she was detained. 

    “I know what I did was wrong, and I take responsibility for that,” Tran told WJZ in October. “For my kids to have to go through it is horrible for me to comprehend. Why? We always say if you change, you deserve a second chance.”

    Tran’s attorney stated that she arrived in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, on Wednesday afternoon.

    “She’s so sad,” Hoang told CBS News Baltimore. “She only wants to take care of the kids. Now, she can’t do that. It’s unfair to Melissa, unfair to my family. She’s not a criminal. She’s not a murderer. She’s a good person.”  

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  • Federal agents clash with protesters outside St. Paul business

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    Federal authorities on Tuesday clashed with protesters outside of a business in St. Paul, Minnesota, leaving several people injured.

    It started around 10 a.m. outside Bro-Tex, Inc., located in an industrial park off Hampden Avenue, a couple of blocks north of University Avenue West.

    Convinced it was an immigration raid, residents responded to a call to action put out by a community network designed, according to protesters at the scene, to protect immigrants.

    “These people are not criminals,” said a woman named Angelica. “They are working here, clearly.”  

    Angelica said her friend’s dad, who is originally from Mexico and now lives in St. Paul, works at Bro-Tex. She said she couldn’t get a hold of him after the dust settled.

    “Her dad texted her that ICE was here taking them. They stayed in communication for a little bit, but he lost his phone and I don’t know what else happened,” Angelica said.

    After about an hour, many in the crowd walked through the police tape and attempted to stop federal law enforcement from leaving with people they believed were detained inside.

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    WCCO cameras captured a physical confrontation between federal agents, some of them wearing FBI and DEA regalia, and protesters. Agents deployed a chemical irritant on the crowd, and physically removed some community members who were blocking four federal vehicles from leaving.

    Fellow protesters helped Angela Deeb after an agent sprayed an irritant at her in front of WCCO cameras.

    “Physically, my body hurt, but then of course our hearts hurt today,” Deeb said.

    Alejandra Villagrana says her dad was one of the people taken into custody by ICE agents.

    “I heard maybe it was 15 people. My uncle was also one of the ones that were taken,” she said. “It was super emotional. I was crying the whole time because I just couldn’t believe it.”

    Villagrana says her dad is originally from Mexico and was working with a lawyer to obtain legal status.

    “He works two jobs to be able to provide for me and my brother, my mom,” she said.

    Villagrana’s family is still trying to find out where her father and uncle are being held.



    Woman says her dad, uncle were detained by ICE in St. Paul

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    ICE released a statement regarding the operation on Tuesday afternoon: “Today in St. Paul, ICE, HSI and law enforcement partners conducted court authorized law enforcement activity and served a search warrant in furtherance of a federal criminal investigation. There is no threat to public safety, and the investigation remains ongoing at this time.”  

    The St. Paul Police Department told WCCO it was informed in the morning of a “search warrant that was going to be executed in relation to a criminal investigation into a business.”

    It’s unclear if anyone was detained in connection to immigration, but it’s notable that members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration were also involved in the ICE-led operation.

    St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said he was at the scene and was “in close communication” with the city’s attorney’s office and police department.

    “Though we don’t have many details right now, I share the concern and fear this raises for our workers, families, and entire community,” he wrote in a Facebook post. 

    Immigration advocates plan on holding a rally outside the business on Wednesday morning.

    On June 3, a similar situation unfolded on East Lake Street in Minneapolis when community members clashed with federal agents involved in a drug and money laundering bust at a business.

    In late October, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem came to Minneapolis to provide what she described as an update on ICE operations in the Twin Cities region. Noem claimed that federal agents had arrested more than 4,300 people in the metro area by that point in the year, claiming 3,316 had a criminal history. 

    Just last week, a teenager in Northfield, Minnesota, captured video of ICE agents detaining his father. In a statement, the agency told WCCO there was an active warrant for the man and that he “endangered the lives of officers, passengers, and bystanders” during the arrest, but the man’s legal representation disputed that.

    In a recent 60 Minutes interview with Nora O’Donnell, President Trump said he believed ICE raids “haven’t gone far enough” when asked about footage of ICE detaining legal American citizens, teargassing a Chicago residential neighborhood and smashing a car window.

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  • ICE detains dozens in Charlotte, including some who say they have legal status

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    In the latest round of the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration raids, federal agents arrested 81 people in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday alone. In videos posted online, some who were detained said they do have legal status. Skyler Henry has more.

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  • Only 16 of over 600 detained by ICE in Chicago area have criminal histories, records show

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    The Trump administration has released the names of 608 people detained by immigration agents, and whose arrests might have violated a court order, and only 16 of them have been identified by the federal government as a “high public safety risk” because of their alleged criminal histories, according to court documents.

    The list includes names, country of citizenship and whether they’ve been deported, remain in custody or voluntarily deported. 

    The list is topped by 16 people deemed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a “high public safety risk” because of their alleged criminal histories. Charges include aggravated assault, aggravated DUI, domestic battery and kidnapping. One person was deemed a national security risk, and another was identified as a “foreign criminal,” but no details were given.

    The government was required to provide the list in court as a judge prepares to potentially release most of those people by next Friday, because their arrests potentially violated the terms of a court order restricting warrantless arrests.

    Eric Balliet, a retired special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, worked for the department until last year after 25 years on the job, said the data regarding the ICE arrests erodes trust in the federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, in particular the Trump administration’s repeated claims that they are targeting the “worst of the worst.”

    “It confuses the public. It certainly instills a sense of fear,” he said. “To go after violent criminals, that’s a lot of work. That’s a lot of effort. That’s a lot of time, and candidly, from the people I’ve talked to, the department and the agency doesn’t want to expense that time, that strategic and operational planning to actually get the worst of the worst.”

    The government’s own data shows that 78% of the 608 people detained by federal immigration agents between June 12 and mid-October pose a low risk to public safety, while a total of 7% are considered high risk – though not all of those considered high risk have criminal histories.

    Only 16 people on the list – or 2.6% – have criminal histories that the federal government deemed make them high risks to public safety.

    “That’s not a good percentage, to say the least. I think it runs contradictory to what has been perpetuated over the last several months where this is a targeted enforcement operation designed to go after kind of the worst of the worst,” Balliet said.

    The list of arrests that might have violated a court order comes as sources said U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino left Chicago on Thursday, following two months of controversial enhanced immigration enforcement efforts under Operation Midway Blitz.

    Sources said Bovino could be on his way to Charlotte, North Carolina.

    “I’m actually in West Virginia now, undergoing training with several hundred Border Patrol agents, and you’re going to see us redeploy to … it could be a New York, it could be a Chicago, it could be a Charlotte,” Bovino said in an interview on FOX News.

    Bovino mentioned Chicago as a possible Border Patrol target, referencing the 614 people a federal judge ordered be released on bond from ICE detention by next Friday, while the court determines if federal agents violated a court order by arresting them. That court order prohibits warrantless arrests without probable cause.

    The judge who ordered those people’s release conceded there might be some people on that list who are a flight risk or public safety threat, and has asked the government to identify those people.

    “We’re going to go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we’re going to apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago,” Bovino said on FOX News.

    Meanwhile, 13 other people detained by ICE have been ordered released from custody on Friday, after a federal judge affirmed their rights had been violated when they were arrested.

    Sources said those people have been scattered across detention facilities around the country.

    The Department of Homeland Security has said more than 3,300 people have been arrested during the ongoing immigration enforcement effort in the Chicago area, Operation Midway Blitz. 

    Meantime, it has been two weeks since Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she could provide a full list of names of people detained during Operation Midway Blitz.

    A federal judge is also waiting on the same list, but Homeland Security has yet to make that list public.

    U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who has issued a preliminary injunction limiting immigration agents’ use of force in Chicago, is planning to hold a hearing in March on whether to make that injunction permanent, ahead of when more Border Patrol agents might return to the area.

    If you know somebody on this list and have additional facts or details to share about their experience, we’d like to talk to you. You can email CBS News Chicago at cbschicagotips@cbs.com.

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  • Video of ICE detaining a Northfield, Minnesota man causes trauma for community

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    Video shows traumatic moments for a teenager in Northfield, MN as ICE agents detain his father Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses claim that ICE provided no explanation during as they restrained the 41-year-old man from Mexico, and at time of publishing, ICE was not able to tell WCCO why this man is now separated from his family. 

    While WCCO has not been able to independently verify what happened before, the video shot by the man’s son begins with several masked ICE agents apparently trying to grab the man in the passenger seat of a car stopped on Washington Street in Northfield. It’s a quiet residential neighborhood left shaken by the incident, with witnesses saying an ICE agent shattered the car window while others drew firearms. 

    The teenage boy can be heard pleading with agents as they restrain his father and bring him to the ground. One of them tells the boy and other onlookers that they had waited “fifteen minutes” as the man and other unidentified occupants refused to open the window. According to a witness, the man’s family was waiting for a lawyer to arrive when agents smashed the window. 

    Northfield Police Chief Jeff Schroepfer put out a statement after WCCO contacted him. He confirmed that while officers responded to a 911 call related to the ICE detainment, they did not get involved in any capacity per department policy. 

    “We do not have the authority to interject ourselves into a federal investigation. I will not comment on the tactics or actions of ICE agents, as I do not have information regarding the background, circumstances, or history of the individual or investigation involved,” Schroepfer said in part. 

    While the family declined to be identified by name, loved ones said that the man is originally from Mexico. Krissa Anderson, who said she volunteers at local schools to assist with language learning, said that she worked with the man’s son in class last year. Anderson said that he is a hardworking man trying to provide for his family with two local jobs. 

    “Normally if somebody is arrested in our town there’s a public record of it and we can look it up and see what happened,” Anderson said, “in this situation there were unidentified men with no uniforms and no ID that came and took somebody and we didn’t know where he was going or what was happening.” 

    While a spokesperson for ICE confirmed they were working on WCCO’s inquiry, the agency did not provide any details about the arrest as of Wednesday evening. 

    In late October, Secretary of Homeland Scurity Kristi Noem came to Minneapolis to provide what they described as an update on ICE operations in the Twin Cities region. Noem claimed that federal agents had arrested more than 4,300 people in the metro area by that point in the year, claiming 3,316 had a criminal history. 

    In a recent 60 Minutes interview with Nora O’Donnell, President Donald Trump  said he believed ICE raids “haven’t gone far enough” when asked about footage of ICE detaining legal American citizens, tear gassing a Chicago residential neighborhood and smashing a car window. 

    Family said that they have received conflicting reports about where the man from Northfield is now held. This is a developing story.   

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  • Judge orders hundreds detained by ICE in Chicago area released over the next week, with hundreds more possible

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    A federal judge has ordered that hundreds of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement be released from federal facilities in the next week because their arrests by ICE were possibly unlawful and in violation of a federal court order.

    Attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center and ACLU of Illinois say federal agents have arrested thousands of people in Chicago and Illinois during Operation Midway Blitz without a warrant or probable cause.

    Immigration advocates argue federal agents violated a court order issued in 2022. The Castañon Nava Consent Decree limits ICE from making arrests simply out of fear that a suspect might escape before a warrant can be obtained.

    On Oct. 8, a federal court ruled to extend the consent decree until at least Feb. 2, 2026. In that ruling, the judge said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE have violated the decree repeatedly, and improperly told field offices over the summer the consent decree had been canceled when it had not.

    At a Wednesday hearing, the U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Cummings issued several orders that could possibly lead to the release of thousands of people in the comings weeks.

    First, Cummings ordered that 13 people identified by the plaintiffs as being unlawfully detained, and which the government conceded were in violation of the consent decree, be released from detention by Friday. Attorneys said after court they are hopeful these 13 will be released from custody within the next 48 hours, if not today. They will be released without bond.

    Second, Cummings ordered a group of 615 people detained by ICE between June 2 and Oct. 7 be released into the agency’s Alternatives to Detention programs by next Friday, Nov. 21, on $1,500 bond while their immigration cases are pending.

    Attorneys for the detainees said they are concerned that some of the people who are now subject to release have either self-deported or been deported by the government, and said that could comprise several hundred people. The exact number of people who have now been ordered released who are still in detention facilities is not yet known.

    Judge Cummings also ordered the government to produce a list of all people who have been detained both by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents — thought to be more than 3,000 people — through the present day by next Wednesday, Nov. 19. That list must include information, including names, countries of origin, arrest date and a risk assessment.

    Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they will then go through the list to identify more people wrongfully arrested without warrants and probable cause and argue for their release from custody as well. 

    “I think it will show that this whole operation, for the last two months, the terrorizing of our neighborhoods, the brutalizing of people here, has all been unlawful. That’s what it’s going to show,” said Mark Fleming, attorney for the National Immigration Justice Center. “It’s going to show that all of this — all of the tactics of Mr. Bovino, all of the tactics of ICE — have been unlawful in the vast, vast majority of arrests. That’s what it’s gonna show. So if they plan to come back, now they’ll have to abide by these court orders going forward and they cannot do their enforcement in this way.”

    The government will also identify people on the list who they believe are risks to public safety or flight risk, and argue for them remaining in detention. The judge said he will honor those requests as long as the list does not seem egregious. The government has already identified 12 people of the 615 ruled on today who they say are public safety or flight risks. 

    The judge also said that anyone released into ATD programs who is officially found to have been arrested in violation of the consent decree will have their bond refunded and will be considered completely released from immigration custody. Those in the ATD programs are still considered to be in custody, they are just not physically detained and must continue to appear for immigration check-ins and court hearings.

    “This court does not sit in a position of making any policy for the government,” Judge Cummings said as he ruled.

    Instead, he said, his position is to ensure the consent decree is enforced.

    “There will be nothing for me to do if arrests made during this Operation Midway Blitz are within the decree,” Cummings said. 

    All parties are due back in court on Nov. 21. 

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  • Indiana businesses: ICE raids, immigration enforcement make it harder to find workers

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    FORT BRANCH — Steve Obert felt deep concern in June watching reports of ICE agents raiding a New Mexico dairy farm. Officers arrested 11 immigrant workers who, authorities say, misused documents such as counterfeit green cards.

    With half its staff gone, the farm scrambled to milk and care for the cows, threatening the survival of both the operation and the animals.


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  • Indiana businesses: ICE raids, immigration enforcement make it harder to find workers

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    FORT BRANCH — Steve Obert felt deep concern in June watching reports of ICE agents raiding a New Mexico dairy farm. Officers arrested 11 immigrant workers who, authorities say, misused documents such as counterfeit green cards.

    With half its staff gone, the farm scrambled to milk and care for the cows, threatening the survival of both the operation and the animals.


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  • Indiana businesses: ICE raids, immigration enforcement make it harder to find workers

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    FORT BRANCH — Steve Obert felt deep concern in June watching reports of ICE agents raiding a New Mexico dairy farm. Officers arrested 11 immigrant workers who, authorities say, misused documents such as counterfeit green cards.

    With half its staff gone, the farm scrambled to milk and care for the cows, threatening the survival of both the operation and the animals.

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  • Video shows ICE drag pre-K teacher out of Chicago day care

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    There is outrage in Chicago following a federal immigration arrest at a day care. While witnesses say it was a chaotic scene, officials say the day care was not the primary target. Ash-har Quraishi has the story.

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  • Judge issues temporary restraining order dictating conditions inside Broadview ICE facility

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    A federal judge on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order requiring federal authorities to maintain certain sanitary conditions inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, while also guaranteeing detainees contact with their attorneys.

    The order requires ICE to provide detainees at Broadview with clean bedding and sufficient space to sleep if they are held overnight; a shower at least every other day; clean toilet facilities; three full meals per day; a bottle of water with each meal; adequate supplies of soap, toilet paper, and other hygiene products; and menstrual products and prescribed medications.

    Holding cells also must be cleaned at least twice a day, and detainees must be provided free and private phone calls with their attorneys. Detainees also must be given a list of pro bono attorneys in English and Spanish upon arrival at the facility, along with interpreter services if needed. Detainees also must be listed on ICE’s online detainee locator system as soon as they arrive at the Broadview facility.

    U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman listened to several hours of testimony on Tuesday about conditions inside the Broadview facility, and said he was convinced the building meant to hold detainees for a matter of hours has essentially become a prison.

    The temporary restraining order that he issued on Wednesday will remain in effect until Nov. 19, when he will hold another hearing in the case.

    The judge ordered Trump administration attorneys to provide him with a status report by noon on Friday on their efforts to comply with his order.

    The plaintiffs who brought the class-action lawsuit have argued conditions at the ICE facility are inhumane and require court intervention.

    At Tuesday’s hearing, five people who had been detained in Broadview testified that it was overcrowded; that there wasn’t adequate food, medical care, or sleeping conditions; and that they could not access showers, soap, or other hygiene items.

    They testified that people have had to sleep on the floor or in plastic chairs with only a plastic blanket. The plaintiffs further alleged, among other things, that toilets are overflowing with human waste, and that the waste has accumulated around toilets where people had to sleep.

    The facility is designed to hold detainees for up to 12 hours, but since the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area began, often has held some migrants for days. 

    Detainees also have said that they were coerced into signing documents that they did not understand, and their attorneys have said they were not allowed proper access to legal representation.

    The lawsuit claimed agents at the facility “cut off detainees from the outside world,” which the government has denied.

    Gettleman said he found the witnesses presented highly credible evidence, and that he tried to issue a temporary restraining order that recognizes what it’s like to run such a facility while also maintaining people’s constitutional rights. 

    The plaintiffs had urged Gettleman to issue an even more sweeping restraining order that would have gone even farther than Gettleman’s mandate – including specific limits on how many people could be kept in holding rooms or cells, and more frequent cleaning of holding areas. The plaintiffs’ attorneys also wanted Gettleman to allow them to conduct their own regular inspections of the facility, alongside an expert and photographer.

    If those conditions could not be met within three days, the plaintiffs wanted a restriction placed on holding any detainees in Broadview for more than 12 hours. But those limits were not included in Gettleman’s order.

    Government lawyers had argued that the sweeping restrictions the plaintiffs had sought would “halt the government’s ability to enforce immigration law in Illinois.”

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  • Federal agents detain teacher at Chicago preschool and daycare in North Center

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    A video taken by a bystander, and seen by CBS News Chicago, captured two federal agents detaining a woman inside a North Center daycare Wednesday morning.

    The video shows two masked federal agents in plainclothes and wearing vests labeled “POLICE” inside the Rayita del Sol Spanish Immersion school and daycare’s Roscoe Village location. A woman can be heard screaming through the glass doors as the agents physically wrestle her out the door, at one point picking her up. They slam her, face-first, into the outer door as they push her outside.

    Once outside, she’s pushed against a dark grey sedan parked outside the building as agents try to handcuff her with her hands behind her back. One agent briefly goes back inside as she’s seen pointing and speaking to the other agent.

    The video was quickly shared among local parents’ groups on WhatsApp and posted to social media.

    CBS News spoke with the director of the Rayita del Sol Roscoe Village location, who confirmed the woman is a pre-K teacher who had just been detained at the time of the phone call, but she didn’t have any further information.

    Ald. Matt Martin, who represents the 47th Ward where the school is located, said he has seen video from inside and outside the daycare center showing what he said was the teacher being violently detained while children were present.

    “It is some of the most chilling video footage I have ever seen, certainly in my time in office,” Martin said.

    Martin said the video shows that the teacher was followed into the building by what he said were ICE agents. He said the agents were not invited inside the building, and that they were armed with guns, walking around the facility with children and teachers present.

    Martin said he is demanding the teacher’s immediate release, and is working on all legal avenues to ensure that happens as soon as possible.

    “I saw dozens of parents and educators weeping,” he said. “You have an educator who is going inside to teach our children, and you have federal agents with guns going inside, without permission, to violently take her away.”

    “Our communities don’t need this right now,” Martin added. “This is not the sort of help that we need from the federal government, and I just hope that we have leaders in Washington who are seeing what’s happening and are making it stop. I can’t put into words what it was like to walk in and see all those families and educators distraught.”

    CBS News Chicago has reached out to the school and the Department of Homeland Security for more information and is waiting to hear back.

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  • Trump says ICE raids “haven’t gone far enough”

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    President Trump, who campaigned on immigration and closing the border, says Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids “haven’t gone far enough.”

    As part of his crackdown on immigration, ICE agents have raided neighborhoods throughout the U.S. One video shows a mother being tackled by an agent. Tear gas was used in a Chicago residential neighborhood. Car windows have been smashed to grab drivers.

    “I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama,” Mr. Trump said. 

    He said he’s OK with the tactics being used by ICE “because you have to get the people out.”

    This is Mr. Trump’s first interview with 60 Minutes in five years — and his first since he sued and then settled with CBS parent company Paramount over a 2024 interview with then Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The settlement did not include an apology.

    Mr. Trump’s wide-ranging conversation with Norah O’Donnell also covered China, Venezuela, the U.S. government shutdown and his thoughts on the 2028 presidential race.

    Tune in for the exclusive interview on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT, after NFL football, on the CBS Television Network and Paramount+.

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  • Bay Area Día de Los Muertos celebrations go on amid ICE concerns

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    While some Bay Area groups canceled their Día de los Muertos events amid concerns about immigration raids, other groups and community members carried on the tradition on Saturday.

    “It’s really scary,” said Jennifer Lomeli. “Every day, there’s new information.”

    Lomeli is Mexican-American. She grew up in the Bay Area and for the most part, she says she’s felt safe, until recently.

    “The fear they have instill in our communities right now, with the threats of bringing ICE and National Guard and a plethora of other things including cuts to a bunch of foundational services,” Lomeli explained about why she’s concerned about the current political climate.

    On Oct. 22, CBS News learned of a planned immigration crackdown by federal agents in the Bay Area. The crackdown, along with a so-called “surge” operation of federal agents in San Francisco was later called off, according to local officials.

    Despite that, it’s not stopping her from embracing her culture and celebrating Día de los Muertos at the Tenderloin Street Fair.

    It’s a Mexican holiday to honor and remember loved ones who have passed away. It combines indigenous traditions with Catholic influences. While the celebration was joyful, Lomeli said she was disappointed to see the crowds a little more sparse than she expected.

    “I can definitely tell that a lot of community members aren’t feeling safe to go outside,” Lomeli said as she looked around the street fair. “They’re not even trying to get groceries right now because of everything that is going on.”

    In the East Bay, R.I.S.E. Youth canceled their Día de los Muertos celebration at Berkeley High School.

    “This decision comes after hearing from many community members who shared that they do not feel safe attending at this time,” said the R.I.S.E. Youth Día de los Muertos Committee. “We want to honor those feelings and prioritize the wellbeing of our community above all else.”

    Meanwhile in Oakland, program director at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Deonte Noble said they never considered canceling their event.

    “We’re very resilient against what’s going on,” Noble said. “We’re still trying to keep good faith, good hope, positivity, happiness, joy.”

    Noble reassured the community that organizers are in constant communication and they are keeping an eye out for anything that looks suspicious.

    Back in San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie emphasized that people shouldn’t be afraid.

    Mayor Daniel Lurie (center) speaks to attendees of the Dia de los Muertos celebration at the Tenderloin Street Fair in San Francisco on Nov. 1, 2025.

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    “Today is about celebration and honoring those who came before us and honoring our ancestors.” said Lurie. “Today in the Tenderloin people are feeling safe. I’m heading out to the Mission and we’re going to take care of our community.”

    Lomeli agrees that it’s all about the community. She says ICE raids aren’t just an immigrant concern, but it’s a human concern.

    “I think it’s really important that we work in community amongst everyone, different groups and ethnic groups, we need to all come together,” Lomeli explained. “Because it’s not only affecting Mexicans it’s affecting everyone, I would argue.”

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