Then in January, immigration officers killed two US citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, in a matter of three weeks. View image in fullscreen Gregory Bovino and other federal immigration officers at a gas station in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, in January. Daily immigration arrests still stand roughly four times as high as they did in Joe Biden’s last year in office, the Times data shows. The Trump administration fired 100 immigration judges last year, then brought in military lawyers to temporarily fill gaps. Instead, Chan said, the Trump administration appears poised to use the looming threat of its growing detention capacity to intimidate more people into “self-deporting”.

Source: The Guardian March 28, 2026 15:31 UTC