{"id":683051,"date":"2026-01-08T21:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683051\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:20:13","slug":"what-is-ice-and-what-powers-do-its-agents-have-to-use-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683051\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ICE and what powers do its agents have to use force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scale of Trump-era deportations have been significant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The administration said it had deported 605,000 people between 20 January and 10 December 2025. It also said 1.9 million immigrants had &#8220;voluntarily self-deported&#8221;, following an aggressive public awareness campaign encouraging people to leave the country on their own to avoid arrest or detention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An immigrant who encounters ICE can face a variety of outcomes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sometimes an individual is temporarily held, then released after questioning. In other circumstances, ICE will detain and transfer that person to a larger detention facility, of which there are several throughout the US. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While many immigrants continue to fight for legal status while detained, if they are unsuccessful, they may ultimately be deported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 65,000 people were in ICE detention as of 30 November 2025, according to data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse&#8217;s immigration project, a compendium of government data from Syracuse University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Immigration lawyers have told the BBC that, once ICE detains an individual, it can sometimes take days for families or lawyers to find out where they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scale of Trump-era deportations have been significant. The administration said it had deported 605,000 people between 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-683051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115861574413753149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}