Some links to recent-ish accounts of Indigenous people from Abya Yala being impacted by ICE in the US, particularly Maya, Zapotec, and Mixtec people in California

In-depth articles

Invisible in the data: A Maya family struggles to rebuild in Guatemala after being deported (December 2025)

I’m a 17-Year-Old Zapoteca in L.A., Choosing to Help My Community Over Fearing ICE (August 2025)

Indigenous Communities From Southern Mexico Refuse to Bow to ICE in California (August 2025)

‘If You Speak an Indigenous Language, You Are Treated as Less’: Migrant Indigenous Farmworkers Feel Deportation Threat (March 2025)

Hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children can stay in the U.S. for now, judge says (August 2025) - on the Trump administration’s attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children, most of them Indigenous

L.A. kidnapping of 14 Zapotec men

Fourteen garment workers ‘kidnapped’ in ICE raids (June 2025) - the workers were Zapotec living in L.A.

Demand release of Zapotec workers who say they were kidnapped by ICE (June 2025) - from the families of the Zapotec garment workers

Lucha Zapoteca - instagram page of community members working to return the garment workers to their families (as of January 2026, three have been deported, eleven have returned to their families, but they are facing court hearings yet)

Urgent Aid for LA Families of 14 Detained by ICE - where you can donate to support the families