Overview
- Local officials and videos confirmed ICE arrests near the Hoboken–Jersey City 9th Street Light Rail station by masked officers using unmarked vans, with no advance notice to local police.
- On Feb. 2, a federal judge temporarily blocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s policy requiring seven days’ notice for congressional inspections of immigration detention sites.
- Noem announced agents will begin using body cameras in Minneapolis with plans to expand the program nationwide when funding becomes available.
- The administration is pursuing an estimated $45 billion expansion of detention capacity and has increased the detained population to more than 70,000, prompting moratoria, legislation and protests from local and state officials.
- In Minneapolis on Feb. 3, federal agents detained activists who were following their vehicles and school leaders reported rising fear in communities, as Congress heard testimony from Renee Good’s family and passed a short-term DHS funding bill to negotiate enforcement limits.