“It’s estimated that more than 60,000 members of the Navajo Nation live in the Phoenix and surrounding areas. With the potential increase in ICE presence in Phoenix, we unfortunately anticipate that tribal members will be impacted through racial profiling and unnecessary encounters that place our people at risk."

Protests continue nationwide in the wake of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman. That includes Phoenix, where a crowd gathered for the second time in as many nights on Thursday to denounce the killing of a 37-year-old U.

Immigration enforcement is expected to ramp up in the metro Phoenix area, according to new reports on ICE activity going into 2026.

An immigration action at a Home Depot in Phoenix could mark an escalation in immigration arrests in a swing state as midterm elections near.

In the wake of a fatal ICE shooting Wednesday in Minnesota, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is concerned about reports that the Trump administration plans to ramp up immigration enforcement activities in Phoenix.

ICE said one of the individuals entered the United States illegally after being deported on at least four separate occasions.

Following L.A., Chicago, and Charlotte, DHS now intends to scale up arrests—and its network of detention facilities—in Maricopa County.

Four day laborers were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside a central Phoenix Home Depot on Sunday morning, according to several immigration activists. The raid comes after reports of increased ICE activity in the metro area.

Anti-ICE protesters gathered nationwide to decry the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis and the shooting of two protesters in Portland, Oregon.