Trump Administration Intensifies ICE Actions, Agents Enter Homes Without Warrants

The Trump administration has intensified Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, including a reported increase in ICE staffing from 10,000 to 22,000 officers and a memorandum allowing agents to enter homes without a warrant.

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In Minneapolis, Minnesota, ICE agents shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good on January 7, and the BBC later described her death as part of the spotlight on Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol commander.

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The New York Times described the administration’s approach as a “methodically planned strategy” aimed at pressuring noncitizens, including those with legal status, to leave the United States by squeezing them financially.

NBC News reported that the Trump administration is looking into selling some of the large warehouses ICE purchased earlier this year for “mega-detention centers,” including facilities expected to hold as many as 8,000 immigrants.

Euronews said the administration’s early measures included the closure of the CBP One app and the reinstatement of “Remain in Mexico,” while France 24 said the year of siege included mass expulsions, immunity for forces in charge, and the detention of children.

CNN reported that a memo issued in May 2025 and revealed by a whistleblower complaint authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter homes using only administrative warrants, which CNN said bypasses neutral, independent magistrates.

CNN quoted constitutional law expert Mark Graber saying, “I suppose we now have only nine left,” in response to the directive’s effect on protections tied to the Fourth Amendment.

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The BBC said Bovino is seen as having inflamed the on-the-ground situation after the shooting deaths of two American citizens, including Alex Pretti, and it quoted Bovino’s “turn and burn” approach as: “We will turn and burn the next target, then the next, then the next, and we won’t stop.”

In Minneapolis, the BBC described how Trump is sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to supervise the operation, and it said White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said that a thorough investigation would be conducted.

France 24 said that after the January 24 shooting death of a 37-year-old man by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, the real ICE sweeps intensified in the first year of Trump’s second term, while RTVE.es said Democratic local authorities demanded anti-immigration agents leave the streets after the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

NBC News said DHS and ICE officials have identified several of the eleven previously purchased warehouses for potential sale, while also stating that the facilities have not yet been put on the market and no final decisions have been made.

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NBC News also reported that the DHS inspector general is examining ICE’s purchases of warehouses as part of an audit of whether DHS met the need for new detention space in a “cost-effective manner,” and it cited a lawsuit by Social Circle, Georgia alleging ICE paid more than five times the property’s previously assessed value.

The New York Times described the administration’s pressure campaign as squeezing immigrants from jobs, medical care, financial services, tax credits and even from enrolling their children in day care, framing the strategy as intended to pressure noncitizens to leave voluntarily.

Euronews said the administration’s border strategy also included a “state of emergency at the border” obliging the U.S. military to mobilize troops, aircraft, military vehicles, and drones toward southern states to safeguard the border and prevent illegal entry.

Franceinfo said the crackdown has targeted nearly 14 million people as priority targets and reported that arrests jumped from 8,500 to 30,000 per month from December 2024 to June 2025, before climbing again to nearly 33,000 arrests in September, according to data submitted by ICE to the Deportation Data Project.