Lizzie Kaboski

HAMMOND — Prosecutors in Indiana's Northern District have ramped up the number of criminal cases filed against individuals who were previously deported and reentered the United States illegally, as United States attorney's offices around the country continue to comply with directives by the Trump administration to strictly enforce immigration laws.

Since January, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Indiana has filed 21 charges of felony illegal reentry by a removed or deported alien, according to data from online federal court dockets. Ten of those cases were filed in Hammond, while the remaining were split between federal jurisdictions in South Bend and Fort Wayne. The defendants prosecuted in 2025 are from Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador, according t

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