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    "parsed_content": "U.S. Immigration CrackdownICE Shooting in AustinD.H.S. LeaderNew Green Card PolicyFederal Agent in CourtICE\u2019s Rush for RecruitsAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTA Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded \u2018Everywhere All at Once\u2019 This SummerA review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.Listen \u00b7 12:42 min Share full articleVideoCreditCredit...By Jazmine UlloaMiriam JordanLuis Ferr\u00e9-Sadurn\u00ed and David OvalleThe reporters reviewed more than 50 incidents and interviewed more than two dozen lawyers, business owners, residents and detained immigrants and their family members for this story.Sept. 25, 2026Updated 7:40 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google The most effective escalation of President Trump\u2019s mass deportation campaign happened quietly.Unlike earlier high-profile raids that drew thousands of protesters into the streets of Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, the surge in arrests in June, July and August was captured mostly by grainy security camera footage, through cracked blinds and from behind closed doors.Arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this summer soared to record highs since the start of this Trump administration \u2014 with 43,000 in June, more than 49,000 in July and nearly 51,000 in August \u2014 as officials cut or narrowed the pathways to legal residency in the United States and expanded the pool of people eligible for deportation.Federal agents appeared in nearly every corner of daily life, carrying out operations at hospitals and airports, outside suburban schools and along rural construction sites and truck stops. They fanned out from coastal cities in Maine to desert towns in Arizona, across the open plains of Wyoming and down through the southern borderlands.In Republican-led states like Texas and Florida, where the swell was strongest, they amplified their reach through partnerships with sheriffs and state highway patrol officers. In Democratic strongholds, they intensified their activities despite laws meant to restrict them.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTDavid Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said the local partnerships, an infusion of federal dollars and new technology had made the dragnet so decentralized that it had attracted less attention.\u201cThis gradual rise everywhere all at once, through a lot of means, is enabling the operation to fly under the radar,\u201d he said.The spike in arrests, to little public backlash, reflects a turning point in the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to carry out large-scale expulsions of noncitizens. Those arrested were accused of violating civil immigration laws, but most had not been charged with or convicted of a crime. In a statement, ICE defended the expansion of immigration enforcement.\u201cThis is promises made and promises kept in action,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThe results speak for themselves.\u201dTo understand how the operations have unfolded around the country, The New York Times reviewed arrest videos, photographs and court records from more than 50 incidents. What follows is a sampling of those interactions.A Presence in Routine PlacesFederal agents appeared as people carried out their everyday routines. People were detained en route to a soccer match. Leaving Sunday Mass. Having a drink at a nightclub. At national forests and outside polling locations.Roger Hansen, 83, owner of the Little Big Load Laundromat in Madison, Wis., said federal immigration agents took five people from two of his locations in June. Statewide sweeps the same day resulted in the arrests of roughly 40 people, many of whom Department of Homeland Security officials said had criminal charges for sexual assault, driving while intoxicated and other crimes.Security footage from one of Mr. Hansen\u2019s laundromats shows two agents slamming a young customer to the ground near a soap dispenser. All the while, people continue to do laundry.VideoCreditCredit...Outside, bystanders recorded the man being walked out in handcuffs and loaded into an S.U.V. with dark-tinted windows.Mr. Hansen said he was disturbed by the violence. \u201cThey were having a heyday beating up on a kid,\u201d he said, adding that business had dropped roughly 50 percent the next day and had not recovered. He said he believed many of his Latino and immigrant clientele may be too afraid to return.In a statement, ICE said the arrests at the laundromat had been part of \u201ctargeted operations\u201d in Wisconsin at the end of June. The five people from Nicaragua and Mexico were in the country illegally, ICE said. The agency did not respond to a question about their criminal records.On July 7 in Salt Lake City, Elizabeth Garcia recorded three ICE agents forcing their way into her home without showing a warrant after following her father, Raul Moreno Meza, 52, from a gas station.In the video, agents handcuff Mr. Moreno and his 15-year-old son, a U.S. citizen. Ms. Garcia howls and pleads as agents carry her father outside to their vehicles. Her 2-year-old can be heard crying in the background.VideoBefore departing, an agent removed the shackles from Mr. Moreno\u2019s son, who chased the S.U.V.s as they drove away. Mr. Moreno was later released on a bond, his daughter said, but her brother has become withdrawn and is attending therapy.\u201cHe had lots of goals and intentions,\u201d she said. \u201cNow he is so negative.\u201dIn a statement, ICE said officers arrested Mr. Moreno after he did not yield to officers at a traffic stop and then fled on foot. The agency alleged in the statement that \u201ca juvenile occupant of Moreno\u2019s vehicle\u201d had assaulted an officer and was \u201cdetained in handcuffs for safety.\u201dMr. Moreno, an undocumented Mexican man, crossed the border unlawfully about two decades ago, after his green card petition languished in delays and as his father, a naturalized U.S. citizen, fell ill, his family said. His father later died. Because Mr. Moreno\u2019s green card petition was tied to his father\u2019s citizenship, the application did not advance after the death, the family said.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAll Corners of the CountryImmigration arrests climbed to near record highs in almost every state. Some of the sharpest percentage increases in daily arrests occurred in Oregon, Montana, Hawaii, New Mexico, Vermont and New Jersey.In June, the dragnet came to Harrison, N.J., where Asian and Hispanic residents account for about 65 percent of the population.Tugrul Ozkarsli, 33, of Turkey, had just pulled up to his home with groceries when ICE agents in plain clothes boxed his vehicle in with their S.U.V.s, his wife, Kendra Ozkarsli, 46, said. He honked his horn and called her from his phone.Video\u201cAll I hear is him screaming,\u201d Ms. Ozkarsli recalled. She ran downstairs to find agents pulling him out of the vehicle.\u201cI\u2019m married!\u201d Mr. Ozkarsli yelled as agents handcuffed him.\u201cWhat are you doing? What are you doing?\u201d Ms. Ozkarsli repeated, her hands shaking as she recorded with her phone. \u201cThis is my husband! Please stop!\u201dMr. Ozkarsli had entered the United States legally on a business visa in December 2024. Before it expired, he applied for a student visa, which is still pending, Ms. Ozkarsli said. ICE said the pending application did not give him legal status.The agency also said he had been arrested on burglary charges in New York last year. Ms. Ozkarsli said he was arrested after he entered the apartment of a woman he was dating at the time to retrieve his wallet and passport, prompting the woman to call the police. The charges were ultimately sealed and dismissed, she said.Mr. Ozkarsli and Ms. Ozkarsli had married this summer, and he had been preparing to apply for a green card, she said.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFrom Roads to AirportsTraffic stops were central to the summer surge. Some were deadly. In Houston and Biddeford, Maine, traffic stops ended in fatal shootings involving officers. An encounter between people in a vehicle and agents at a Florida gas station resulted in a fatal car crash. In Milwaukee, Frankely Quezada, 34, and Estenderly Marte Polanco, 31, of the Dominican Republic, were running errands with their 7-year-old son on a Saturday morning in June. Near home, Mr. Quezada said, he noticed an unmarked S.U.V. trailing his van. He turned into an alley and accelerated.The vehicle behind him flashed its lights, and as Mr. Quezada crossed the street, more S.U.V.s emerged to box him in. Federal agents jumped out, and one of them pointed a yellow stun gun at him and shattered his window, Mr. Quezada recalled. From a balcony, a neighbor filmed officers dragging Ms. Polanco out as her son cried.VideoMr. Quezada, who was not arrested, said Ms. Polanco bit a federal agent as they drove her away after he shoved her face into her lap so forcefully she believed she would suffocate. Ms. Polanco, who overstayed a visa and has no other criminal record, remains held without bond in Kansas.In response to questions about Ms. Polanco\u2019s arrest, ICE said in a statement that both Mr. Quezada and Ms. Polanco had been combative and refused to obey commands and that Ms. Polanco would remain in custody as her case moves through immigration proceedings.ICE also stepped up its arrests of foreign citizens at airports in July, in encounters that could be more surreptitious. Footage recorded by an airline manager on July 13 captured two ICE officers in plain clothes approaching a gate agent at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport before a flight to Portland, Ore. They identified themselves only as federal officers and instructed the employee to page a passenger.Flanking the woman, the men discreetly took her into custody, according to the manager, who asked not to be identified, citing concerns for her job. The worker followed them, recording as they escorted the passenger through the concourse, one of them wheeling her luggage.VideoIn the parking lot, the woman was handcuffed and put into an unmarked vehicle.ICE agents told the manager that the woman was being detained because she had overstayed her visa. U.S. authorities did not share her name with The Times or provide information about her whereabouts.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTNo More Protected AreasDuring the summer surge, displays of force were routine inside some courthouses, and federal agents have increasingly been spotted at and near hospitals and schools.ICE acknowledged operating in courthouses but said officers did not target schools.\u201cNothing in the Constitution prohibits arresting a lawbreaker where you find them,\u201d the agency said in a statement. \u201cThe ability of law enforcement to make arrests of criminal illegal aliens in courthouses is common sense. It conserves valuable law enforcement resources because they already know where a target will be.\u201dOn the morning of Aug. 20, Grace Calero, 39, and her daughter, Giulianna Carriel, 19, were rushed to a hospital after a car crash south of Orlando, Fla. As medical staff treated them for injuries, a federal agent entered the emergency ward and began questioning Grace\u2019s sister, Gia Calero, about the women\u2019s immigration status, the sister said.He remained in the room, joking with nurses.It wasn\u2019t until hours later, after Grace\u2019s neck brace was removed, that the officer announced he was with ICE, Gia said. In the dramatic scene, captured by Gia on her cellphone, five deputies with the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrived. They handcuffed Grace as Giulianna wailed on a bed, clinging to her mother and begging them not to take her.Video\u201cThey didn\u2019t even let them recover,\u201d Gia Calero said.In statements, ICE and Polk County sheriff\u2019s officials said the women had overstayed their visas. Gia said her sister and niece had pending asylum claims, stemming from attempted kidnappings in Ecuador. The two have since been deported to their native country.Caroline Kim contributed video editing and production. Kitty Bennett contributed research.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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