Overview
- Over the last 15 months, Border Patrol agents operated far from the U.S.–Mexico border in a mobile deportation campaign not previously seen at this scale.
- CalMatters, Evident Media and Bellingcat documented the operations through extensive video, tracing a path from a January 2025 Bakersfield raid to Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis.
- An ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good in Minneapolis about a year after the Bakersfield raid, and weeks later a Border Patrol agent killed Alex Pretti.
- Federal courts in multiple cities found likely constitutional violations and imposed restraints on tactics, after which agents redeployed to new jurisdictions.
- Reporters focused on five identified agents, found no known disciplinary actions, and received no response from DHS, while video evidence indicates the tactics grew more brazen over time.