Local authorities say a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, where anti-ICE protesters gathered for hours.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations Tampa has seized over 22,000 artifacts as part of an ongoing investigation into global antiquities smuggling, the agency reported late last month.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, saying officers would use them to control detainees and protesters who resist.

The U.S. has deported more than 160 people to Haiti for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident.

Two sons of a man shot by immigration officers in Houston have told members of Congress about the horror and confusion of learning their father had been killed.

Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell received a $1.24 million state immigration-enforcement reimbursement check Tuesday but has not yet finalized how the funds will be spent, with potential uses including jail technology, marine vessel repairs, aviation maintenance, and costs tied to a new agreement to house 120 ICE detainees in the Lake County Jail.

Dozens of Democratic U.S. senators and Maine's Independent senator are demanding more details from Immigration and Customs Enforcement about vetting practices for new agents.

Protesters gathered in Orlando on Saturday to call for accountability and transparency after two deadly encounters involving ICE agents, as federal officials review enforcement policies nationwide.

President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after two deadly shootings within a week, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them.

Trump administration officials have told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in little over a week, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The death of a man who was fleeing federal immigration agents in Florida is at least the 10th fatality linked to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a construction job Tuesday morning when he was killed.

President Donald Trump says he is nominating Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A poll worker says two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s party primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

An undocumented immigrant from Mexico has been arrested after getting into a “physical altercation” with an ICE agent in Orange County last week, according to the FLHSMV.

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees and continue refusing to pay wages for detainees’ “voluntary work."

Cleon Williams, also known as ‘Uncle Lou’, was arrested on May 19 during a sting operation and was held in the Orange County jail on an immigration hold before facing a second-degree misdemeanor charge.

Just months before he expected to graduate from the University of Central Florida, Alexander Vallejos said everything he had worked toward was finally within reach. The computer science student was on track to earn his degree in 2025 after years of balancing work, school and financial challenges. But the future he envisioned changed abruptly after he was detained by immigration authorities.

Cleon Williams, the Orlando music venue owner better known as “Uncle Lou,” is now in ICE custody and no longer in the Orange County Jail, according to his attorney. Williams, who ran Uncle Lou's Entertainment Hall for two decades, was held on an immigration detainer after a state agency raided his businesses earlier this month.

The Trump administration says a former executive at a private prison operator will serve as the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Now facing a misdemeanor charge related to an ABT operation, Cleon Williams, better known as "Uncle Lou," remains inside the Orange County Jail on an immigration detainer.

Democratic members of Congress from across the country gathered in Orlando on Monday to announce an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly referred to as ICE.

Known in Orlando's indie music scene as "Uncle Lou," Cleon Williams, 62, has been inside the Orange County Jail for two days on an immigration hold.

Could “Alligator Alcatraz,” the makeshift facility for ICE detainees in the Florida Everglades, soon be shut down? According to a report in The New York Times, Florida officials and the Trump administration are discussing just that. DeSantis confirmed there had been talks.

The Senate has taken the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections.

Orange County Commissioners will likely face renewed pressure from opponents on Tuesday over the county’s agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

A lawyer says guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees at a state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.

Environmental groups have asked a federal appellate court panel to lift its temporary halt on closing an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.

Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem.

More federal immigration officers are making their way to U.S. airports after President Donald Trump said he’d deploy them to supplement the Transportation Security Administration during a government shutdown that has caused long lines at security checkpoints across the country.

Armed federal immigration officers in tactical gear moved through terminals at some of the busiest U.S. airports Monday, standing near security lines and checkpoints after President Donald Trump ordered their deployment during a partial government shutdown that has disrupted air travel nationwide.

A federal judge admonished the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida for arguments made during a habeas corpus case made earlier this year.

There's a small sign of progress in efforts to end the Homeland Security shutdown.

Gov. Ron DeSantis rebuked some of Florida’s top law enforcement officials Thursday, criticizing their calls to Congress and President Donald Trump to work on a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants.

A group of sheriffs on a state immigration enforcement board sharply criticized the federal government’s mass deportation efforts Monday, a stark departure from hardline policies in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has spearheaded collaboration with federal officials to remove all undocumented immigrants.

A month after some high school students left campuses to protest ICE, Brevard County’s school board is considering harsher punishment for students who walk out of class that would extend to anyone affiliated with the district who encourages a disruption to school, not just the kids."

Court records show that ICE officials are preparing to facilitate the return of two girls who were mistakenly deported with their mother from Orlando under a "family unity" policy.

Orange County commissioners officially approved a resolution that opposes the establishment of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in the county. During a regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, commissioners unanimously approved the resolution as a part of their consent agenda.

Some Central Florida students continue protesting officers who work for the country’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A husband and wife who practice real estate in Central Florida were reunited Thursday for the first time since they were detained by federal immigration agents in early January.

Nearly a month has passed since News 6 spotted representatives with ICE touring the Beachline Logistics Center in east Orlando.

During Tuesday’s regularly scheduled Orange County Commission meeting, members of the public and at least three commissioners advocated for the county to pursue a lawsuit over its relationship with ICE, but Mayor Jerry Demings pumped the brakes on the idea.

A federal judge based in Orlando Monday expressed frustration over a recent social media post made by United States Attorney General Pam Bondi.

A school district didn’t back down from its warnings to punish students if they walked out of school to be part of the nationwide ICE protests.

Walkout protests over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity have spread to high schools across Central Florida, prompting warnings from state and local school officials that students who leave class during instructional time could face disciplinary consequences.

A Venezuelan national who has been held for nearly 30 days in the Orange County Jail is entitled to a bond hearing in immigration court, a federal judge ruled Thursday. He's the latest immigrant detainee to go before the court in a habeas corpus case.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats' demands for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic.”.

A group of Leesburg High School students could face suspension for engaging in a protest against federal immigration practices.

Officials with the district said that the current protests are not related to school operations, and the district is instead "focused on prioritizing learning."

On Tuesday, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings issued a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warning about new limits coming to ICE inmates at the county’s correctional facility.

Federal judges in two separate hearings in Orlando on Tuesday admonished U.S. attorneys over immigration cases and released the detainees. They're the latest defendants who have successfully argued that the government is unlawfully detaining them.

In a letter sent to families on Tuesday, School Board Chair Matt Susin said the district was made aware of a proposed student-led walkout that was promoted at three high schools.

Temperatures are already on the way down as the leading edge of our arctic airmass comes through. Several spots in Central Florida are feeling tropical storm force wind gusts just behind the cold front having swept through earlier today, and we're solely going downhill further from here.

An Orange County spokesperson confirmed Friday that the county is “following up on complaints” about conditions inside the Orange County Jail, as corrections staff continue to be pushed to the brink by the high volume of inmates with immigration detainers.

Protesters across the U.S. shut down schools and stores during a nationwide strike to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

The Senate has voted to fund most of the government through the end of September while carving out a temporary extension for Homeland Security funding, giving Congress two weeks to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country.

Mixed crowds, those in opposition and support, appeared at Congressman Mills' latest Town Hall in Oviedo.

Senate Democrats are threatening to block legislation Thursday to fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies, potentially bringing the government a step closer to a partial shutdown Friday if Republicans and the White House don't agree to restrict President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement.

Democrats and the White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they negotiate new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement.

When News 6 arrived to the Brannon Center for Congressman Cory Mills’ Town Hall, we saw at least two dozen officers outside. Inside, Mills took pre-submitted questions, but the topic of ICE quickly overtook the discussion.

The talk has been all things cold the last several days, but other significant weather impacts could come down this weekend besides the cold temps.

Senate Democrats are rejecting more money for Homeland Security after another fatal ICE shooting. Here's what could happen to federal workers, small businesses, consumers, vulnerable populations and more if the government shuts down as a result.

A partial government shutdown is looming at week’s end.

I-4 is seeing some hefty delays, not because of congestion -- because of ICE!

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said Tuesday that the county attorney’s office is “exploring the legal issues” centered around U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s interest in opening a detention facility in Orlando.

If the U.S. Department of Homeland Security chooses to open an ICE detention facility in the city of Orlando, there is nothing city leaders can do to stop it. That’s according to the Orlando city attorney’s office, which issued a legal opinion to Mayor Buddy Dyer.

In an interview with News 6, Republican candidate for Florida governor, Rep. Byron Donalds, signaled his support for ICE's immigration crackdown, criticized ICE protesters, and pushed to repeal property taxes, and more.

During an anti-ICE demonstration outside ICE’s Orlando office, law enforcement officials arrested a protester, raising tensions Friday afternoon.

Orange County Democrats are opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operating in Central Florida and potentially opening a detention facility in Orlando.

As of Friday, Jan. 16, there were 831 bookings in the jail with immigration holds, according to a county spokesperson, who noted that “there has been a significant number of re-bookings.” Here's what else we know about their charges.

Immigrant advocates and Democratic lawmakers urged the public to speak out against the increasing reported presence of ICE agents in Central Florida on Monday, and to protest plans to open an ICE detainment center in Orange County.

News 6 was there as ICE representatives toured a building on Transport Drive as a possible new detainment center.

A U.S. citizen says in a statement that she was dragged from her car and detained by immigration officers in Minneapolis.

A New York City Council employee has been arrested in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Plaintiffs' attorneys are asking a federal judge to intervene after three Democratic members of Congress were blocked from visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Minnesota over the weekend.

The frustration surrounding the Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE officers this week has sparked thousands of protests nationwide, including here in Central Florida.

After a driver was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd came out to express his thoughts on the matter.

An ICE officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city, a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the mayor described as reckless and unnecessary.

Orange County is formally demanding the federal government reimburse hundreds of thousands of dollars for housing ICE immigration detainees in the county jail.

A spokesperson with the Orange County Corrections Department told News 6 that the federal government owes the county hundreds of thousands of dollars in reimbursement payments for housing ICE detainees inside the Orange County Jail.

A crackdown on illegal immigration is netting hundreds of arrests in Orange County, according to recent data obtained by News 6.

The Trump administration is pausing immigration applications, including green cards, for people from 19 countries previously banned from travel.

In the Loop: Theme Park Scoops gives you updates on Central Florida attractions.

Florida officials held a news conference at ICE-ERO Center Miramar.

A recent FBI-led raid at an Idaho race track shows how immigration is driving federal law enforcement under the Trump administration.

Officials say many federal officers involved in immigration enforcement in Chicago have body cameras, but expanding their use requires more funding from Congress.

Federal prosecutors say three activists opposed to President Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Los Angeles have been indicted on charges of illegally “doxing” a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

Immigration enforcement officials have arrested almost 550 people in the Chicago area as part of an operation that began less than two weeks ago.

Federal authorities say they've deliberately chosen a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people living illegally in the U.S. to self-deport.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is ramping up its hiring efforts to support President Donald Trump's mass deportation goals.

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Law enforcement activity led by U.S. Border Patrol caused Apopka High School to be placed on a temporary secure/hold, according to officials.

Homeowners are cashing in on years of home equity gains, even as mortgage rates remain stubbornly high.

One day after Orange County ratified a controversial addendum authorizing the transport of immigrants to ICE-approved facilities, one of the two commissioners who voted against it explained her decision and what she hopes the county will do next.

The Department of Homeland Security has removed age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement.

State auditors are scheduled to arrive at the Orange County Administration Building Tuesday to begin an on-site review of county financial records, particularly expenses related to diversity programs and a new multicultural center.

State auditors are scheduled to arrive at the Orange County Administration Building Tuesday to begin an on-site review of county financial records, particularly expenses related to diversity programs and a new multicultural center.

Law enforcement agencies across central Florida are facing a new challenge amid widespread understaffing. Federal immigration enforcement agency ICE has begun recruiting deputies and police officers from Florida departments to join its newly expanded force.