Trump ICE raids, deportation efforts: See the backlash and the administration's impact

National Guard members and a federal agent block people protesting an ICE immigration raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm on July 10, 2025 near Camarillo, California. Protestors stood off with federal agents for hours outside the farm in the farmworker community in Ventura County. A Los Angeles federal judge is set to rule Friday on a temporary restraining order which would restrict area immigration enforcement operations.

Los Angeles Sheriff Department officers arrive to help after the U.S. Border Patrol and protesters clash after a raid was conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement near a Home Depot on June 7, 2025 in Paramount, California. Around 30 agents wearing tactical gear were stationed near a Home Depot in Paramount and faced off against protesters, south of downtown Los Angeles.

A protester stands on a burned car holding a Mexican flag on June 7, 2025, in Paramount, California.

Fireworks explode in front of law enforcement as they face off with demonstrators during a protest following federal immigration operations, in the Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles, California early on June 8, 2025. US President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 troops on June 7 to handle escalating protests against immigration enforcement raids in the Los Angeles area, a move the state's governor termed "purposefully inflammatory." Federal agents clashed with angry crowds in a Los Angeles suburb as protests stretched into a second night Saturday, shooting flash-bang grenades and shutting part of a freeway amid raids on undocumented migrants, reports said.

Looters break into a gas station's market place as demonstrators and law enforcement clash with demonstrators during a protest following federal immigration operations, in the Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles, California early on June 8, 2025. US President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 troops on June 7 to handle escalating protests against immigration enforcement raids in the Los Angeles area, a move the state's governor termed "purposefully inflammatory." Federal agents clashed with angry crowds in a Los Angeles suburb as protests stretched into a second night Saturday, shooting flash-bang grenades and shutting part of a freeway amid raids on undocumented migrants, reports said.

A police officer uses stun grenades as they approach the protesters gathered around the Los Angeles Federal Building following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in downtown Los Angeles, California, June 6, 2025.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, April 28, 2025.

A demonstrator falls while getting detained by the police as protesters gather around the Los Angeles Federal Building following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in downtown Los Angeles, California, June 6, 2025.

Police detains a protester blocking the garage entrance of the Los Angeles Federal Building following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in downtown Los Angeles, California, June 6, 2025.

"Death to ICE" is written on a garbage cart following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in downtown Los Angeles, California, June 6, 2025.

Protesters hold placards as they gather around the Los Angeles Federal Building following multiple detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in downtown Los Angeles, California, June 6, 2025.

In this handout provided by Sen. Van Hollen's Office, U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) meets with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (L) at an undisclosed location on April 17, 2025 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Border Patrol agents work near a U.S. Air Force plane as migrants being expelled from the United States sit aboard, at the Fort Bliss military base, in El Paso, Texas, January 30, 2025.

Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, of Turkey, leaves a press conference at Boston Logan International Airport after she was released on a judge's order after spending over six weeks in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, in Boston, Massachusetts, May 10, 2025.

Öztürk's attorneys say she committed no crime and that she was targeted by ICE because she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian essay in the Tufts student newspaper. Öztürk was taken into custody by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as she walked on the sidewalk near her Boston-area home on March 25.

In an aerial view, inmates are seen in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Center displaying a banner saying "Help we want to be deported we are not terrorists, S.O.S.," on May 12, 2025 in Anson, Texas. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has begun transferring illegal immigrant detainees to the Bluebonnet Detention Center after U.S. District Judge Wesley Hendrix readily offered the facility to the Trump administration under the Alien Enemies Act.

A Salvadoran migrant who was deported from the United States embraces his daughter at the Attention Center for Returned Migrants, in San Salvador, El Salvador on Feb. 21, 2025.

Ethiopian migrants, deported as part of an agreement between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and Panama, hug each other in a hotel where they meet again after authorities took the group to a bus terminal, following a decision by Panama to issue temporary permits for some migrants recently sent from the U.S. allowing them to stay for up to 90 days, in Panama City, Panama, on March 11, 2025.

An Ethiopian migrant, deported as part of an agreement between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and Panama, speaks on her phone as she waits on a bus after authorities took the group to a bus terminal, following a decision by Panama to issue temporary permits for some migrants recently sent from the U.S. allowing them to stay for up to 90 days, in Panama City, Panama, on March 11, 2025.

Michael Bub speaks to his longtime partner Ma Yang, who was deported to Laos, outside of their home on March 13, 2025, in South Milwaukee.

A man signs a form as Venezuela collects signatures to back migrants deported from the U.S. to El Salvador to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, at the Simon Bolivar square, in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 19, 2025.

Members of the Caracas Municipal Police take part in a signature collection in support of Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S. to El Salvador to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, at the Simon Bolivar square, in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 19, 2025.

A group of migrants deported as part of an agreement between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and Panama arrive at a shelter center after authorities took the group to a bus terminal, following a decision by Panama to issue temporary permits for some migrants recently sent from the U.S. allowing them to stay for up to 90 days, in Panama City, Panama. March 11, 2025.

A group of migrants deported as part of an agreement between the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and Panama, line up before heading to a hotel where they will stay tonight, following a decision by Panama to issue temporary permits for some migrants recently sent from the U.S. allowing them to stay for up to 90 days, in Panama City, Panama, on March 9, 2025.

A migrant, who arrived on the first deportation flight from the U.S., sits at the Center for Temporary Assistance for Migrants (CATEM) in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, on Feb. 26, 2025.

Migrants, who arrived on a deportation flight from the U.S., stand at the Center for Temporary Assistance for Migrants (CATEM), in Puntarenas, Costa Rica February 26, 2025. REUTERS/Maynor Valenzuela

Migrants, who arrived on the first deportation flight from the U.S., are seen at the Center for Temporary Assistance for Migrants (CATEM) in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, on Feb. 26, 2025.

A Mexican migrant deported from the United States calls by phone at the Migrant Assistance Center, a temporary shelter, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Feb. 22, 2025.

This aerial view shows the San Vicente migrant shelter in Meteti in the Darien jungle, Panama on Feb. 21, 2025. In a shelter in the jungle province of Darien, guarded by Panamanian sodiers, a hundred Asian migrants are waiting after being deported from the United States by the Donald Trump administration.

Migrants deported from the United States enter a shelter in Corredores, Costa Rica, on Feb. 21, 2025. The United States deported 135 migrants of various nationalities, including 65 minors, to Costa Rica, according to the Costa Rican government. The deportees, who will be repatriated to their countries of origin from Costa Rica, were taken by bus from the capital San Jose to a migrant facility about 224 miles away, near the border with Panama.

Migrants board a bus bound to Panama from a shelter in Corredores, near the Costa Rica-Panama border on Feb. 20, 2025. Around a hundred migrants deported from US to Panama, mostly Asians, were placed in a shelter in the inhospitable Darien jungle, where they will have to wait to be repatriated.

Deportees look out the airplane window upon the arrival of a repatriation flight with deported migrants on Feb. 20, 2025 in Alajuela, Costa Rica. Deportees from countries such as Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and India arrived to Costa Rica after being detained in the US.

A migrant is transported to a migrant shelter after leaving the Guatemalan Migrant Reception Center after their deportation flight from the U.S. on Feb. 19, 2025.

Gustavo Kakawax is hugged by family outside of the Guatemalan Migrant Reception Center after arriving on a deportation flight on Feb. 19, 2025.

Family and friends of deportees await the arrival of their loved ones on a U.S. deportation flight outside of the Guatemalan Migrant Reception Center on Feb. 19, 2025.

Guatemalan migrants sit at La Aurora Air Base upon arrival on a deportation flight from the United States, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Feb. 18, 2025.

Migrants deported from the U.S. gesture as they look out the window of the Decapolis Hotel where they are temporarily staying in Panama City, on Feb. 18, 2024.

A U.S.Air Force aircraft carrying Indian migrants deported from the United States, lands at the Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport in Amritsar in India on Feb. 5, 2025.

Honduran migrants arrive on a deportation flight at the Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport following U.S. President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration on immigration, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras Jan. 31, 2025.

Guatemalan migrants deported from the United States on a U.S. military plane walk down the runway at the Guatemalan Air Force Base in Guatemala City on Jan. 30, 2025.

Migrants from Guatemala in the United States illegally are loaded onto a C-17 military plane to be deported back to Guatemala on Jan. 30, 2025 at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The aircraft is designed to transport 134 passengers, but only carried 80 migrants.

Migrants deported from the U.S. are received by a Red Cross member at El Dorado International airport in Bogota on Jan. 28, 2025. Two Colombian military planes with some 200 nationals expelled from the U.S. arrived in Bogota after a blazing row with Donald Trump over migrant deportations, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said.

Migrants are escorted across the Hidalgo International border Bridge as they are deported under Title 8, a law that allows for immediate deportation after crossing into the U.S. without authorization, in McAllen, Texas, U.S., Jan. 27, 2025.

A man walks past an apartment entrance, where according to local media reports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conducted an immigration raid and arrested a man, in the Highbridge area of the Bronx borough of New York City, on Jan. 28, 2025. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Brazilians who were deported from the United States walk through the departure lounge at Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil on Jan. 25, 2025. Brazil condemned the "disregard for fundamental rights" of nearly 80 Brazilian illegal migrants deported from the U.S. who were handcuffed during the journey. The plane landed in Manaus due to technical problems.

Brazilians who were deported from the United States wait at the departure lounge at Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil on Jan. 25, 2025. Brazil condemned the "disregard for fundamental rights" of nearly 80 Brazilian illegal migrants deported from the U.S. who were handcuffed during the journey. The plane landed in Manaus due to technical problems.

Luis Antonio Rodrigues Santos is welcomed by Eliana Campos at Confins International Airport in Confins, Minas Gerais state, Brazil on Jan. 25, 2025, after being deported from the United States. Brazil condemned the "disregard for fundamental rights" of nearly 80 Brazilian illegal migrants deported from the U.S. who were handcuffed during the journey.

People deported from the United States arrive at Confins International Airport in Confins, Minas Gerais state, Brazil on Jan. 25, 2025. Brazil condemned the "disregard for fundamental rights" of nearly 80 Brazilian illegal migrants deported from the U.S. who were handcuffed during the journey.

Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, are transported aboard a bus from Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM) after being deported from the United States through the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa border crossing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Jan. 24, 2025.

Mexican nationals are pictured arriving in Mexico after being returned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the Santa Fe International Bridge last month.

In this aerial view, Mexican immigration officials and police escort deportees after they were sent back into Mexico on Jan. 22, 2025 as seen from Nogales, Arizona. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on his first day in office declaring a state of emergency at the U.S. southern border, halting asylum claims and launching a campaign of mass deportations.