ICE arrests have surged in July, reaching a high under Trump ICE has averaged more than 1,400 arrests a day through the first half of July, on pace for the agency's busiest month of Trump's second term, following a record-setting June in which 39,500 people were arrested and sent to detention. Posted on Jul 17, 2026 | The Washington Post
Nevada leaders push back on White House claims of noncitizens on voter rolls A White House fact sheet released alongside Trump's election address claimed more than 250,000 noncitizens are illegally registered to vote across California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada, without disclosing its methodology. Nevada's Secretary of State called the figure "wildly speculative at best," saying DHS has not shared anything to back it up. Posted on Jul 17, 2026 | FOX5 Las Vegas
In primetime speech, Trump doesn't provide evidence for illegal voting Trump used a primetime address from the White House East Room to announce he was declassifying intelligence documents on "shocking vulnerabilities" in U.S. election infrastructure, including claims that China acquired 220 million voter files and that noncitizens are on state voter rolls. He offered no new evidence that any vote in any election was actually altered. Posted on Jul 16, 2026 | NPR
Mark Warner pushes back on Donald Trump's 2020 China meddling claims Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, called Trump's China election-interference claims "so completely false" within hours of the president's speech, noting that U.S. intelligence agencies unanimously agreed China never tried to change a single 2020 vote, and pointing out that CIA Director John Ratcliffe, now one of Trump's own appointees, oversaw the intelligence community that reached that conclusion in the first place. Posted on Jul 16, 2026 | The Hill
New ACLU Report Documents Widespread and Unchecked Civil Rights Abuses by Immigration Agents The ACLU's "Agents of Chaos and Cruelty" report examined more than 1,200 immigration enforcement incidents across eight states and found over 400 involved misconduct by agents, the first in a series of reports the organization plans to publish ahead of the 2026 midterms. Posted on Jul 16, 2026 | ACLU
Man killed in ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford An ICE officer fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine, during what the agency called an enforcement operation tied to a final removal order; immigrant rights groups say he was authorized to work in the U.S. and had a Social Security number, and the Maine Attorney General's office has not released evidence supporting ICE's claim that he drove toward the officer. It is the second fatal ICE shooting in less than a week, after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing in Houston on July 7. Posted on Jul 13, 2026 | WBUR
Detainees tell their lawyer an ICE officer shot a Houston driver through a passenger window The three men detained alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo say the officer was never in front of or near the van, that images show no damage to it, and that ICE has since been pressuring them to self-deport — removing them as witnesses before investigators can hear their account. Posted on Jul 10, 2026 | The Associated Press
Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers Three men arrested during the same operation, speaking from ICE detention through an attorney, directly contradict DHS's account of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's killing — saying ICE vehicles rammed into his van, not the reverse, that it was moving no more than 5 mph, and that no officer was ever in its path. Posted on Jul 10, 2026 | The Washington Post
Trump Pushes Out Last Federal Election Assistance Commission Members Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners on the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission by email and let the sole Republican commissioner resign, leaving the agency that helps states run elections with no sitting members months before the 2026 midterms. Posted on Jul 9, 2026 | ProPublica
Family of man shot dead by Ice agent in Texas demand answers Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son says his father — in the US nearly 35 years and in the process of obtaining legal work status — was on his way to pick up day laborers for his construction job when an ICE agent shot and killed him; his family and civil rights groups are demanding an independent investigation and release of video evidence. Posted on Jul 8, 2026 | The Guardian