Carol Guzy in New York City, Dave Decker in Minneapolis, Scott Mc Kiernan in Portland, and Jonathan Alcorn, Ringo Chiu, Jill Connelly, Mark Edward Harris, and Héctor Adolfo Quintanar Pérez in Los Angeles, documenting a year of actions by ICE agents and the resulting consequences of nationwide protests. A year ago following President Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025, the administration began on January 26, 2025, implementing what it promised would be ''the largest domestic deportation operation of illegals and criminals in American history''. Since then, immigration enforcement has intensified with federal authorities making an average of 500 arrests per day, a 78% increase over 2024, and fueling fear and loathing among many Americans. As global attention remains fixed on the shock and awe style of THE TRUMP SHOW, tensions have continued to escalate. Most recently 'Operation Metro Surge' in Minneapolis, another large-scale federal immigration enforcement effort, has stunned the world, when it was marred by two fatal encounters of two civilian protesters at the hands of ICE agents, sparking widespread protests and calls for accountability.
© The January 27, 2026 Issue 1025 of the zReportage.com online magazine, explores the last 365 days of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E. operations across America. Featuring powerful images from ZUMA Press award winning photojournalists: Carol Guzy in New York City, Dave Decker in Minneapolis, Scott Mc Kiernan in Portland, and Jonathan Alcorn, Ringo Chiu, Jill Connelly, Mark Edward Harris, and Héctor Adolfo Quintanar Pérez in Los Angeles, documenting a year of actions by ICE agents and the resulting consequences of nationwide protests. A year ago following President Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025, the administration began on January 26, 2025, implementing what it promised would be ''the largest domestic deportation operation of illegals and criminals in American history''. Since then, immigration enforcement has intensified with federal authorities making an average of 500 arrests per day, a 78% increase over 2024, and fueling fear and loathing among many Americans. As global attention remains fixed on the shock and awe style of THE TRUMP SHOW, tensions have continued to escalate. Most recently 'Operation Metro Surge' in Minneapolis, another large-scale federal immigration enforcement effort, has stunned the world, when it was marred by two fatal encounters of two civilian protesters at the hands of ICE agents, sparking widespread protests and calls for accountability.
Los Angeles police on horses beat protesters participating in the anti-Kingdom Day march in Los Angeles. During the dispersal, law enforcement used horses, non-lethal weapons, and excessive force to quell anti-Trump and anti-ICE protesters.
© Hector Adolfo Quintanar Perez/ZUMA Press Wire
An explosive device detonates behind US Customs agents who fire pepper gas rounds at protesters after an ICE raid in Paramount, California. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been carrying out operations in the Los Angeles area.
© Jonathan Alcorn/ZUMA Press Wire
agents for the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY take down a protestor then fire crowd disbursement munitions as the Broadview facility's role has changed dramatically with the start of immigration raids and 'Operation Midway Blitz'. The location is the central processing facility for the operation and is scheduled to operate for 7 days a week for 45 days.
© Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire
In the immediate wake of reports citing an ICE involved shooting on the North Side of Minneapolis heavily armed Federal agents secured a perimeter and fired multiple rounds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.
© Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire
In the immediate wake of reports citing an ICE involved shooting on the North Side of Minneapolis agents secured a perimeter and fired multiple rounds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.
© Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire
In the early morning hours a lone man with an umbrella, stands in a sea of tear gas. ICE agents just secured the perimeter in the immediate wake of reports citing an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), involved shooting on the North Side of Minneapolis. They fired multiple rounds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs in process Laye at night Wednesday into early hours of Thursday morning.
© Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire
A coalition of activist groups, including The Party for Socialism and Liberation, Students for a Democratic Society and 50501 Florida and immigrant rights groups rallied together at City Hall to protest the killing of 'Renee Nicole Good' by ICE agent in Minneapolis.
© Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire
Graffiti covered Waymo car that were set on fire in Downtown LA where hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest against ICE immigration sweeps.
© Jill Connelly/ZUMA Press Wire
An anti-ICE protester jumps over a burning car with his BMX bicycle in Los Angeles duirng mass demontrations against the current administration and ongoing ICE Immigration sweeps.
© Mark Edward Harris/ZUMA Press Wire
A man scrubbed his eyes with snow and screamed for help as agents in an unmarked Jeep sprayed an orange irritant and drove away. Federal officers dropped tear gas and sprayed eye irritant at anti-ICE activists during another day of confrontations in Minneapolis. Gas clouds filled a Minneapolis street near where Renee Good was fatally shot in the head by an immigration agent.
© Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire
Anti-ICE activist on pavement while being arrested by NYPD. Part of large group who were blocking ICE agents from leaving a garage where they were thought to be staging for a raid on Canal Street in New York. NYPD escorted their patrol vans and arrests were made.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire
A protester holds severed mannequin heads, one marked 'ICE', during a demonstration in Los Angeles calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations and U.S. attacks on Venezuela.
© Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press Wire
Masked ICE agents and federal officers detain people after they attend hearings at immigration court in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire
Young girls cling to their loved one, a migrant from Ecuador, as he is detained by ICE after his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire
A security guard breaks down in tears in a moment of tender humanity while witnessing the heartbreak of a distraught migrant woman and her children after her husband was detained by ICE as they left his immigration court hearing at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in New York. The family was inconsolable with despair. 'Please help me, please help me. Take me too.' she wept as he was led away. Security guards are tangled in the middle of ICE, migrants, observers, activists and press as courthouse dynamics play out in this new normal in America. Sometimes it's the quiet moments that reach most deeply into the collective conscience of a nation.
© Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire
Armed agents stand on ICE facility rooftop as protests against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland. The South Waterfront neighborhood, saw demonstrators demanding the closure of the facility. Activists pressured city officials to revoke the facility's permits, with federal agents later using pepper balls and tear gas on demonstrations.
© Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press Wire
Demonstrators dressed as dinosaurs as protests against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland's South Waterfront neighborhood, saw activists demanding the closure of the facility. Activists pressured city officials to revoke the facility's permits, with federal agents later using pepper balls and tear gas on demonstrations. Protesters utilized inflatable animal costumes, including frogs, dinosaurs, unicorns as a form of creative, nonviolent resistance.
© Scott Mc Kiernan/ZUMA Press Wire
