In December 2025, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights won a major victory in our case challenging ICE’s policy of warrantless immigration arrests, without probable cause, in Washington, D.C.

The court ordered ICE to halt warrantless arrests in D.C.

We won—and it worked.

This week, the Washington Post reported a dramatic drop in ICE arrests in D.C. since the court’s preliminary injunction in December.

We remain resolved to do all that we can to protect our immigrant neighbors, to defend D.C. autonomy, and to uphold the rule of law.Some highlights from the article:

• Immigration arrests in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have reached nearly 20,000 in President Trump’s second term.
• Nearly 60 percent of those arrested had no prior criminal record.
• From August to November 2025, ICE arrested more than 1,400 people in D.C.
• But from December 2025 to March 10, 2026, ICE made just over 100 arrests.
• Meanwhile, in Maryland and Virginia, the rate of immigration arrests is unchanged.

This preliminary injunction was the direct outcome of our lawsuit, brought on behalf of We Are CASA and several individuals, alongside co-counsel ACLU DC, ACLU, AMICA, National Immigration Project, and Covington & Burling.

We remain resolved to do all that we can to protect our immigrant neighbors, to defend D.C. autonomy, and to uphold the rule of law.