ICE arrests Soleimani’s niece in Los Angeles
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A large gathering outside a PennDOT driver's license center led to federal immigration enforcement to arrest over a dozen people on Friday, April 3, officials said.Thirteen people were arrested during the incident outside the West Kittanning Driver License Center,
Federal immigration authorities have arrested the head of Wisconsin's largest Islamic organization, the Trump administration announced Thursday.
The niece and grandniece of Qassim Soleimani, the late Iranian general, have been arrested by federal immigration agents in Los Angeles.
The statement said that ICE arrested 13 “illegal aliens” from countries including Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. It alleged that one person resisted arrest and assaulted an officer.
Due to federal records requests filed by the Deportation Data Project, we now see ICE arrests in the L.A. area have plummeted this year after surging in 2025.
An investigation is underway after ICE agents arrested multiple people outside of a PennDOT drivers license center in Armstrong County, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday.
The pace of arrests is more than four times that in the last 15 months of the Biden administration. Under Trump arrests have swept up people from 100 countries, with the highest numbers coming from Brazil and Guatemala.
Overall, ICE has arrested more immigrants with no criminal record, compared with those with a conviction, since Trump took office again last year. Since January 2025, ICE has arrested more than 146,000 immigrants with no charges or convictions, compared with more than 127,000 immigrants with a criminal conviction.