Across the country, ICE officers accustomed to operating below the radar have been thrust into the spotlight by Trump's aggressive deportation orders.

Secretary Noem faced direct contradiction when Rep. Magaziner introduced Army veteran Sae Joon Park, who self-deported to South Korea in June following ICE threats.

The Department of Homeland Security has instructed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to give the names of every passenger to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in an effort to cross-reference the lists to find people who are subject to deportation.

The email from a U.S. immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation to their native Colombia or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their 6-year-old daughter.

Trump administration officials are quietly floating replacements for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as rumors about her alleged romance with her top adviser spiral out of control. Publicly, the White House has brushed off speculation that Noem’s job is in jeopardy,

What this all shows is a sprawling, fast-growing web of local agreements built for speed. The human outcomes, rightly or wrongly, flow from that structure. As of November 16, 73.6 percent of people in ICE detention had no criminal conviction; 41,641 were booked in October alone, according to TRAC Reports.

Video shows protesters being pepper-sprayed during a confrontation in Minneapolis while Trump ramped up his anti-immigration rhetoric about Somalis in a speech Tuesday night to supporters in Pennsylvania.