Arizona
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Arizona (AZ) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Arizona counts here.
This is not the same set as Arizona's jurisdiction page, which records the 19 entries where Arizona's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
9 entries · 6 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Phoenix city 3 entries
Phoenix police officers used unreported force, including a taser, on a stopped couple and filed no report
On August 5, 2026, Phoenix police officers Luis Vasquez Jr. and Antonio Felix stopped a Dodge Charger near 19th Avenue and Broadway Road in south Phoenix and used force -- including a stun gun, an arm bar, and repeated punches -- against the man and woman inside, without activating their body-worn cameras or filing a required use-of-force report. The stop surfaced only after one victim escaped and reached Tempe police, whose officers found the account so extreme they initially suspected the assailants were impersonating police rather than being real officers. Phoenix's own investigation later confirmed both were on-duty officers.
Homeland Security Investigations agents pepper-sprayed bystanders during Phoenix-area Zipps raids that arrested 39 workers
On January 26, 2026, Homeland Security Investigations agents served search warrants at 15 Zipps Sports Grill locations across the Phoenix metro area, arresting 39 workers, including a married couple who had worked at the chain for 18 years. As agents left several locations, they pepper-sprayed bystanders and protesters who had gathered to watch or object, including a woman in Tempe who was hospitalized; a police-procedures expert who reviewed video of one incident found no use-of-force justification for it.
ICE secretly deported eight shackled Palestinians from Phoenix to the occupied West Bank
On January 20, 2026, ICE flew eight Palestinian men - shackled at the wrists and ankles for the entire journey - out of a Phoenix deportation hub on a private jet bearing the emblem of Dezer Development, the company run by Trump donor Gil Dezer, with refueling stops in New Jersey, Ireland, and Bulgaria. The men landed at Ben Gurion Airport and were released by Israeli authorities at a military checkpoint near Ni'lin in the occupied West Bank, in an operation coordinated with Israel and approved by the Shin Bet. A joint +972 Magazine and Guardian investigation found the flight was one of at least two such secret removals in early 2026, carried out with little or no due process.
Tucson city 2 entries
ICE agents enter Tucson home without judicial warrant and arrest DACA recipient Karla Toledo
On the morning of May 18, 2026, federal immigration agents arrested Karla Toledo, a 31-year-old longtime Tucson, Arizona resident and DACA recipient, at her home. Video shared by her family shows occupants repeatedly asking agents to produce a warrant, and her family and attorney say no judicial warrant was presented before agents entered. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Toledo was taken in a "targeted immigration enforcement operation" and, with the Department of Homeland Security, asserted that DACA confers no legal status, that she entered the country unlawfully in October 2024, and that she assaulted an agent — claims her attorney disputes, citing surveillance footage. Toledo was moved to ICE detention in Eloy, Arizona, where her bond was set at $1,500 and her attorney expected her release within days.
ICE agents arrested asylum seeker Isa Maluenga Avila without explanation, detained her 18 days at Eloy
On January 26, 2026, masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Isa Maluenga Avila, a 41-year-old Tucson asylum seeker lawfully admitted at the Nogales port of entry in 2023, without explanation as she left a bank, and sent her to Eloy Detention Center. ICE gave no reason for the arrest, and Maluenga Avila had no criminal record and no active removal case or final removal order against her. She was held 18 days in conditions she described as inhumane before an immigration judge ordered her release on February 13, 2026, after DHS moved to dismiss its case rather than respond to a federal habeas corpus petition her attorney had filed.
Apache Junction city 1 entry
Apache Junction, Ariz. officer misused Flock license-plate cameras to track his wife, resigned before termination
Apache Junction, Arizona police officer Joshua McDaniel misused the department's Flock automated license-plate-reader system on April 19, 2026, to try to locate his wife, Police Chief Michael Pooley said. McDaniel asked Apache Junction dispatchers to run his wife's plate and separately used the ALPR network to track her car to Casa Grande, a misuse he disclosed to Casa Grande police during an unrelated welfare-check call, prompting Casa Grande to alert Apache Junction. McDaniel resigned shortly after Apache Junction's internal investigation concluded in late July 2026; Pooley said he would have been fired had he not resigned.
Chandler city 1 entry
Chandler, Ariz. police officer misused Flock license-plate cameras to locate family member, resigned before investigation completed
A Chandler, Arizona police officer resigned on August 13, 2026, after admitting to department investigators that they used the city's Flock automated license-plate-reader system to locate an older family member with prior health concerns. Chandler Police said in a written statement that a routine scheduled audit flagged unusual account activity on August 6, the officer was questioned and admitted the misuse, was placed on administrative leave, and resigned before a formal investigation could be completed. The city had already announced on August 7 that it would end its use of all 40 Flock cameras following the internal investigation.
Eloy city 1 entry
ICE denied humanitarian parole to 79-year-old dementia patient, holding her at Eloy nine months
An Arizona Daily Star investigation published February 15, 2026 found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has largely stopped exercising discretion to release medically vulnerable detainees on humanitarian parole, instead issuing what immigration attorneys describe as blanket denials. The investigation centered on Julia Benitez, a 79-year-old Cuban asylum seeker with dementia who uses a wheelchair, whom ICE held at Eloy Detention Center in Arizona for nine months despite her family's repeated parole requests and her rapidly deteriorating mental condition. Detentions of people 65 and older rose 150% in the first five months of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024, according to a Lee Enterprises analysis of ICE detention data.
Surprise city 1 entry
DHS retained unqualified contractor GardaWorld for court-ordered environmental review of Surprise, AZ ICE facility
On September 4, 2026, DHS attorneys disclosed in a federal court filing that ICE had retained GardaWorld -- the same contractor already paid $313.4 million to build and operate the planned Surprise, Arizona ICE detention facility -- to conduct the environmental review DHS agreed to complete before housing anyone there. The disclosure came in a status update required under a July 2026 agreement with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes that paused her lawsuit alleging DHS fast-tracked the facility in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act. Federal procurement records show GardaWorld's roughly 70 prior federal contracts are almost entirely for security, food service and transportation work, and neither DHS nor GardaWorld would answer questions about the company's environmental-review qualifications.