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July 26, 2026

3 entries on this date.

ICE launched targeted enforcement operation against Haitian migrants in Ohio as TPS expired, planning rapid deportation flights

On July 26, 2026, CBS News reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had developed and begun executing a targeted enforcement operation against Haitian migrants in Ohio, timed to expiration of Temporary Protected Status after the Supreme Court's certified judgment authorized TPS termination for Haitians and Syrians. Internal agency documents reviewed by CBS News and statements from ICE officials confirmed plans to concentrate operations on the Springfield, Ohio area and to rapidly deport Haitian migrants, with speed of removal designed to limit time available to seek legal counsel or contest removal orders.

ICE, Forest Service, and Caldwell County deputies arrested 13 people at a North Carolina national-forest recreation site

On July 26, 2026, ICE agents, U.S. Forest Service law enforcement, and Caldwell County, North Carolina sheriff's deputies arrested 13 people during an immigration operation at Wilson Creek, a popular swimming and recreation area in Pisgah National Forest -- the first time ICE has partnered with the Forest Service in North Carolina in recent memory. Those detained included a father taken into custody in front of his partner and their 4- and 10-year-old children. ICE said some of those arrested had criminal records but has not specified who or how many. Local Latino advocates, who had spent months volunteering to help the Hurricane Helene-damaged recreation area reopen, say the operation has left families in the area afraid to return.

Seattle Police Department withheld shooting information for five hours and gave reporter an altered version of chief's schedule

On July 26, 2026, the Seattle Police Department withheld public information for nearly five hours after a mass shooting at the Bite of Seattle festival in Seattle killed three people and injured several others, delaying its own scheduled press conference roughly an hour to accommodate arriving dignitaries. Police Chief Shon Barnes was out of town at a law-enforcement conference during the shooting, part of a pattern of weeks away from the city so far in 2026, and when a journalist requested his calendar records SPD supplied an altered version and did not produce the original or additional records requested.