Photos this week: May 22-29, 2025
Zsa Zsa Floyd, George Floyd's eldest sister, sheds a tear during a memorial service in Pearland, Texas, marking the fifth anniversary of his death on Sunday, May 25. Floyd's death sparked massive protests across the nation over police brutality. The four former police officers involved in his death were later convicted on both state and federal crimes. Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters
A woman says goodbye to her 17-year-old grandson, Roman Martyniuk, during a funeral in Korostyshiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 28. Martyniuk and his younger siblings Tamara and Stanislav were among those killed in Russian aerial attacks over the weekend.Emergency personnel work at the scene where a driver plowed a car into a parade in Liverpool, England, on Monday, May 26. Dozens were injured in the incident, which came as fans crammed the streets to celebrate the Liverpool Football Club's latest Premier League title. A 53-year-old man, believed to be the driver, was arrested and charged. Danny Lawson/Actress Nadia Melliti, left, receives the Best Actress award from actor Daniel Auteuil during the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival in France on Saturday, May 24. Melliti won for her part in the film "La Petite dernière" ("The Little Sister'). Antonin Thuillier/AFP/Getty Images
Ximena Arias-Cristobal returns home to her family on Thursday, May 22, after spending two weeks in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Stewart County, Georgia. The 19-year-old college student was wrongfully pulled over for a traffic violation, and charges against her were dropped. But she was detained by ICE after it was found that she was an undocumented immigrant. She was released on bond, but she still faces possible deportation, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP
Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, carry boxes and bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed organization approved by Israel, on Thursday, May 29. Aid distribution efforts in Gaza devolved into chaos during the first days of a controversial new mechanism backed by the United States and Israel. According to the Palestinian health ministry, 11 people have been killed and dozens injured as crowds of desperate people arrived at distribution sites in southern Gaza since they opened earlier this week. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said on Thursday that no one was killed or injured during the distribution of aid. Mariam Dagga/AP
Tennis legend Rafael Nadal waves to the crowd as he is honored at the French Open in Paris on Sunday, May 25. The Spaniard, who won a record 14 French Open titles, retired from tennis last year. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
Rosie Weaver leans against the headstone of her husband, US Army Spc. Michael Weaver, after a Memorial Day ceremony in Holly Township, Michigan, on Sunday, May 25. Ayrton Breckenridge/The Flint Journal/AP
People compete in the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake competition near Brockworth, England, on Monday, May 26. It's been described as the world's most dangerous race, and it's certainly one of the most ridiculous — a 200-yard dash after a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. Isabel Infantes/Reuters
A team of rangers from the Upemba National Park travel along the Lufira River in Kasenga, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday, May 22. Upemba is one of Africa's oldest national parks and home to many vulnerable species. HughUS President Donald Trump arrives at the Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on Friday, May 23. The next day, he gave the commencement speech at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York. Nathan Howard/Reuters
A huge chunk of a glacier in the Alps broke off on Wednesday, May 28, burying part of the mountain village of Blatten, Switzerland. The village was evacuated earlier this month, authorities said. Alexandre Agrusti/AFP/Getty Images
This wide-field composite image shows a newly discovered cosmic object called ASKAP J1832-0911 in X-ray, radio and infrared light. Astronomers say the astonishing celestial object, about 15,000 light-years from Earth, is emitting bright flashes of radio waves and X-rays that last for two minutes and repeat every 44 minutes. NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk/Handout/Reuters
Volunteer divers from the environmental group Aegean Rebreath gather waste from the bottom of the seabed at the port of Votsi, on the Greek island of Alonissos, on Saturday, May 24. Stelios Misinas/Reuters
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has the lid of the Premier League trophy put on his head as he and his teammates celebrate their title in Liverpool, England, on Sunday, May 25.Emily Birger wipes away tears during a vigil for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky in Overland Park, Kansas, on Thursday, May 22. Milgrim and Lischinsky, two Israeli Embassy staff members, were fatally shot last week after leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC. Charlie Riedel/AP
A man holds a Polish flag during a march in Warsaw, Poland, showing support for presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski on Sunday, May 25. Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki will face off in a second round of the election on June 1. Volha Shukaila/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
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ICE arrests under Trump top 100,000 as officials expand aggressive efforts to detain migrants
Arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during President Trump's second term topped 100,000 this week, as federal agents intensified efforts to detain unauthorized immigrants in courthouses, worksites and communities across the U.S., internal government data obtained by CBS News shows. On Tuesday and Wednesday, ICE recorded more than 2,000 arrests each day, a dramatic increase from the daily average of 660 arrests reported by the agency during Mr. Trump's first 100 days back at the White House, the federal statistics show. During President Biden last year in office, ICE averaged roughly 300 daily arrests, according to agency data. The latest numbers show ICE is getting closer to meeting the far-reaching demands of top administration officials like White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner who has forcefully pushed the agency to conduct "a minimum" of 3,000 arrests each day. On Wednesday morning, ICE was holding around 54,000 immigrant detainees in detention facilities across the country, according to the data. The Trump administration is asking Congress to give ICE billions of dollars in extra funds to hire thousands of additional deportation officers and expand detention capacity to hold 100,000 individuals at any given point. Officials are also looking at converting facilities inside military bases into immigration detention centers. The marked increase in ICE arrests across the country — especially in major Democratic-led cities that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials — comes after the Trump administration replaced two of the agency's top leaders amid internal frustrations that arrests numbers were not high enough. CBS News reached out to the representatives for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for comment. Trump administration officials have framed the aggressive expansion of immigration operations as necessary to fulfill the president's signature campaign promises of cracking down on illegal immigration, expelling immigrants with criminal histories and overseeing the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history. But to boost arrest numbers, ICE has resorted to more aggressive — and controversial — tactics that have triggered outrage and even confrontations in some communities. Those efforts include arrests of migrants and asylum-seekers showing up to court hearings or check-in appointments that the government instructed them to attend. Immigration lawyers have strongly denounced those arrests, saying they deter migrants from complying with the legal process. Immigration roundups at some worksites have also been reported recently. Videos of some ICE arrests have depicted sobbing women and children being escorted into vehicles outside of immigration courts. Footage has also captured community members confronting federal agents — some of them masked — as they take migrants into custody. One video showed construction workers suspected of being in the U.S. illegally lined up after an ICE-led operation on their worksite in Florida. And while ICE has been arresting many immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally and also have criminal records, the agency is simultaneously detaining non-criminal migrants living in the U.S. without proper documents — including longstanding residents — amid the Trump administration's pressure to increase arrest levels. Among them is Marcelo Gomes, an 18-year-old Brazilian-born high school student in Milford, Massachusetts, who was arrested by ICE last week on his way to volleyball practice. While ICE has acknowledged that agents were looking for his father when they arrested Gomes, it has kept the teenager in detention, saying he's in the U.S. illegally. Gomes' lawyer said her client initially lived in the U.S. on a temporary visa that had since lapsed. Before Mr. Trump took office, someone like Gomes would likely not have been arrested by ICE, given his age, his lack of any criminal record and the fact that he came to the U.S. as a child over a decade ago. But the Trump administration has reversed Biden-era restrictions on ICE operations that directed the agency to largely focus on detaining serious criminals, recent arrivals and national security threats, like suspected terrorists. While ICE employees have spearheaded Mr. Trump's immigration crackdown, the agency is receiving support from other federal agencies as part of an unprecedented effort by the administration to muster manpower and resources from across the government for immigration enforcement. The federal agencies now helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants include Customs and Border Protection; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and the Internal Revenue Service. The Trump administration has also enlisted local and state law enforcement officials in friendly jurisdictions like Florida to support ICE operations.
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ICE details dangerous working conditions in Djibouti. But they don't have to be there.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are laboring under dangerous conditions while maintaining custody over migrants they're holding at a military base in Djibouti, according to a declaration from an ICE official Thursday. But the Trump administration is choosing to keep them there, so if the government's top priority is caring for its workers, it could move them elsewhere while the legal process plays out. The government had sought to deport a group of migrants to war-torn South Sudan, but U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy told the government to give them a chance to properly challenge their removals. The judge didn't say that they had to stay in Djibouti while their claims are processed; he just said the government had to maintain custody and control over them. The government could bring them back to the U.S. to continue the process here if that's what the government preferred. To underscore that the status quo is due at least partly to the government's preference, Murphy emphasized in a recent ruling that, even though he found the government had violated a prior order in attempting the premature deportations, he didn't grant the migrants' request to be returned to the U.S. 'Instead, the Court accepted [the government] Defendants' own suggestion that they be allowed to keep the individuals out of the country and finish their process abroad,' he wrote, using italics to press the point. The Biden appointee in Boston had told the government, while ordering officials to maintain custody and control of the migrants, that while he 'leaves the practicalities of compliance to [government] Defendants' discretion, Defendants have ensured, and the Court expects, that class members will be treated humanely.' Thursday's ICE declaration filed to Murphy suggests that it's ICE officers themselves who are facing inhumane conditions. It says they're showing symptoms of respiratory infections but can't get proper testing for diagnoses, and that they're at risk of rocket attacks from Yemeni terrorists but lack body armor or other protective gear. A Trump official said Thursday that the judge was 'literally putting ICE agents' lives in danger.' But that's not quite true. The judge never said they had to stay there. As Murphy put it in his recent ruling, officials are 'manufacturing the very chaos they decry.' Subscribe to the Deadline: Legal Newsletter for expert analysis on the top legal stories of the week, including updates from the Supreme Court and developments in Donald Trump's legal cases. This article was originally published on
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Private prison operator blocked from housing ICE detainees at shuttered facility
A judge in Kansas issued a Wednesday ruling determining that a private prison operator could not use its shuttered facility to house detainees from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Leavenworth County Judge John Bryant granted a temporary restraining order blocking CoreCivic from housing individuals in the custody of ICE. The order was issued after a March lawsuit was thrown out in May on technical grounds, according to The Associated Press. CoreCivic did not immediately reply to The Hill's request for comment on the ruling. Earlier this year, executives applied to use their 1,033-bed facility to help the Trump administration facilitate removals in its crackdown on illegal immigration. CoreCivic said it would lose $4.2 million each month it wasn't open, according to legal files reviewed by AP. The company applied for a permit to use the grounds for ICE operations but withdrew its application in May alleging it didn't need permission from the city to determine which detainees to house. 'It became clear to CoreCivic that there was not a cooperative relationship,' said Taylor Concannon Hausmann, an attorney for the private prison operator, speaking in court, as reported by the AP. However, city attorney Joe Hatley urged the company to 'follow the rules' and obtain the proper permit for operations. The CoreCivic property is located 10 miles away from Kansas City International Airport and has previously worked with federal officials to house pretrial detainees, according to the AP. In 2021, the Tennessee-based company stopped working for the U.S. Marshals Service after former President Biden urged the Justice Department to cease contracts with private prison operators. Multiple inmate violations were flagged in addition to reported suicides and killings. The Trump administration has been working with the private sector to undertake deportation efforts, including the GEO Group, which is planning to reopen New Jersey's Delaney Hall to hold individuals awaiting removal. Democrats have protested the use of the facility for federal purposes, citing concerns about federal operations within Newark, a designated sanctuary city. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
