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October 27, 2025

2 entries on this date.

JTF Southern Spear killed 14 aboard suspected narcotics vessels in eastern Pacific; 13th strike, ~[N] campaign deaths

U.S. Joint Task Force Southern Command conducted three separate strikes on Oct. 27, 2025 in the eastern Pacific, killing 14 people total. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced all three strikes in a single post, marking the first time multiple strikes were announced in a single day. No substantiating evidence was presented for alleged drug-trafficking. One survivor was spotted clinging to debris; Mexican Navy search operations ended October 31 with no survivor located.

ICE arrested a misidentified Durango asylum-seeker and his two children without a warrant en route to school

On October 27, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Fernando Jaramillo-Solano, a Colombian national with a pending asylum case, and his two children without a warrant as he drove them to school in Durango, Colorado. A senior ICE official later testified in federal court that Jaramillo-Solano had been mistaken for another person, but agents detained him anyway and transferred him to a Texas facility. The family was separated from the children's mother, and the arrest triggered days of protests outside the Durango ICE field office.