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December 17, 2025

3 entries on this date.

Dominica signed third-country deportee agreement with United States after visa threat

Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced on January 5, 2026 that his government had signed an agreement, dated to diplomatic notes from December 17, 2025, to accept third-country nationals the U.S. cannot deport to their countries of origin. The deal followed a December 16, 2025 U.S. proclamation restricting entry for Dominican nationals, and Skerrit declined to disclose which countries the transferred individuals would come from.

JTF Southern Spear killed four aboard suspected narcotics vessel in eastern Pacific; 26th strike, ~99 campaign deaths

On December 17, 2025, at the direction of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people. U.S. Southern Command described the boat as operated by a designated terrorist organization along a known narco-trafficking route, but provided no charges, judicial process, or independent evidence. The same day, Senate war-powers resolutions intended to constrain the campaign failed to reach the floor.

ICE agents smashed car window to forcibly remove Salisbury, Maryland mother after school drop-off

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 24-year-old Vanessa Parrazal in Salisbury, Maryland on December 17, 2025, minutes after she dropped her daughter off at Pinehurst Elementary School. When Parrazal did not exit her vehicle, agents smashed the driver's-side window and forcibly removed her, an encounter witnesses captured on video and neighbors described as traumatizing. ICE said Parrazal resisted arrest and was extracted for officer safety, while Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said the agency had lawful authority to make the arrest.