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ICE Steps Up Courtroom Arrests to Speed Deportations

Advocates warn detaining immigrants outside courtrooms is designed to intimidate asylum seekers by depriving them of due process.

Officials bundle a man into an umarked van out San Francisco's immigration court on Tuesday morning, May 27, 2025.
The Edward J. Schwartz Federal building sits along Front Street in San Diego, California, on January 17, 2010.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transfer an immigrant into the ICE Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, after an early morning raid, Monday, June 6, 2022.
In this 2019 file photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detain a man in Escondido, Calif. On Tuesday, immigrants who showed up to immigration court appointments in San Francisco and Concord were arrested by ICE officers.

Overview

  • Over the past week ICE agents detained at least four immigrants immediately after their court appearances in San Francisco and Concord, marking the first such arrests in the Bay Area.
  • DHS attorneys have requested custody redeterminations to shift immigrants into expedited removal proceedings that bypass immigration judges.
  • Immigrant advocates describe the operation as illegal and immoral, warning that fear of arrest may deter undocumented immigrants from attending hearings and risk deportations in their absence.
  • The operation has deployed plainclothes agents, unmarked vehicles and G4S security personnel outside courthouses in San Diego and San Francisco to carry out arrests.
  • The Department of Homeland Security says the arrests enforce expedited removal for those lacking valid credible-fear claims and that individuals with such claims will continue in immigration proceedings.