Immigration and Customs Enforcement is playing a key role in the Trump administration’s plans to crack down on illegal immigration. Here’s a look at some key questions about the agency and its priorities.

ICE has made more than 4,500 arrests since Trump’s return to office and has conducted raids in major sanctuary including New York, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston, according to

Sources told NBC News that federal enforcement agencies will not conduct an operation in Aurora on Thursday as originally planned.

ICE agents arrested at least one person early Tuesday morning in New York City, according to multiple agencies.

Former ICE official John Fabbricatore told Newsweek: "We're serious about how we're going to treat these terrorist[s] and gangs."

ICE has take a spotlight role in the wake of plans in Trump's administration for mass deportations. Here's what you need to know about the agency.

What Trump's order says, how local law enforcement is involved, ICE's efforts so far and what to do if you encounter ICE.

TV host Phil McGraw, known professionally as Dr. Phil, accompanied Homan, ICE agents and officers with the DEA as they conducted raids in Chicago. During the operation, the 74-year-old TV personality questioned a migrant in handcuffs, who denied being a sex offender.

On Sunday, multiple federal law enforcement agencies participated in an operation related to “immigration enforcement efforts” in Savannah, Cartersville and Atlanta, according to a post on X by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Atlanta.

Authorities in Arapahoe County, Colo. had been on the hunt for Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco since September 2024, after doorbell surveillance footage linked him to a home invasion in Aurora, Colo.

The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.