Public backlash against ICE climaxed after the January 2026 fatal shootings of two US citizens in Minneapolis. Since then, stealthier arrest operations have fueled enforcement that is quieter but just as ruthless. The 24 hours between the mornings of July 13-14 stand out as exceptionally deadly. 🧵

This story was a big collaboration between graphics, data, photo, and immigration. A story with bylines across 4 desks, which I think shows the seriousness with which The Guardian takes covering this

The arrests often happen fast, said Gracie Willis of the @nipnlg.bsky.social. “The detentions are happening in a flash – we’re talking, like, 90 seconds from the time ICE shows up to that person being driven away,” Willis said. “And often they are moving very quietly, with very soft feet.”

Many are detained by local police working with ICE – so it's unclear what's a traffic stop, and what's an immigration arrest.

ICE arrests are at a record high. People have been arrested while pumping gas, leaving behind their empty cars. They are arrested on their way to work, or while taking out the trash.

“When you don’t track something of that magnitude, then you don’t have to be confronted with the reality of what your policies have yielded”, said Faisal Al-Juburi, the co-chief executive of Raíces, an immigration services non-profit. Read the full story here:

Meanwhile, detained pregnant women report struggling to access routine and emergency medical care. Anabell, an asylum seeker, started bleeding heavily – soaking through a menstrual pad every 30 minutes. A day later, chained to a hospital bed at a local ER, she was told she wasn’t pregnant anymore.

ICE recorded 18 miscarriages during the first nine months of the Trump administration, the documents show, but the agency has no data on miscarriages after 3 October 2025.

ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵

BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab

New: The Trump admin subjected at least one person on hunger strike in immigrant detention to forcible medical treatment. A document from the ICE Health Service Corps confirms the first case of forced treatment since Trump's second term. w/ José Olivares

Mario was arrested at work and spent weeks detained. Six nights sleeping on the floor of a holding cell - the “ice box”. Two months at the Adelanto detention center. He was released on bond, and is awaiting a decision on his immigration case. His time detention still loops in his mind.

Noémi's husband Jesús was arrested at work, and then deported to Mexico. Now he's living in Kini... and he still calls his wife and each of their four kids every morning to wake them up. “I wish somebody could tell me: ‘OK, he’s going to be there two years, or three years,’” she said.

What happens after ICE raids a city? Last year in LA, partners and primary breadwinners, grandparents and children, carwasheros and coffee shop regulars were arrested, detained and deported – disappearing from their neighborhoods... This is what came next.