Idaho probation officers compiled foreign-born list for ICE, emails show

Probation officer alerted ICE before probationer’s scheduled appointment

Canyon County, Idaho’s misdemeanor probation department compiled a list of foreign-born people on probation for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents between May and July 2026, according to more than 140 emails between the county’s probation staff and ICE’s Boise office obtained by InvestigateWest.

The heavily redacted correspondence documents routine coordination between the local probation office and federal immigration authorities. As part of that coordination, the probation department combed through its case files to compile a list for ICE of foreign-born people on probation, apparently without validating that those named were in the country illegally.

People born outside the U.S. include individuals with green cards, those with pending asylum applications, and naturalized U.S. citizens — categories distinct from people in the country without legal status. The InvestigateWest reporting does not state how many individuals were on the list or what criteria, beyond being foreign-born, were used to add a name.

The most concrete exchange captured in the emails involved Norma Naranjo, a senior probation officer for Canyon County’s misdemeanor probation department. On May 13, she wrote to six ICE agents about a man she was scheduled to meet the following morning for his regular check-in.

“His meeting has not changed and he is expected to be here tomorrow morning at 7:30 am,” Naranjo wrote.

The following day, the man arrived a few minutes early to his appointment. Naranjo sent another email to the agents.

“He is here are you guys on your way?” she wrote.

It is unclear from the emails, which are heavily redacted, whether ICE agents detained the man at his probation appointment.

Naranjo’s messages are among the more than 140 emails between Canyon County probation officers and ICE agents from May to July 2026. The redactions leave open basic questions about the operation: how the list was compiled beyond the foreign-born filter, how many names it contained, how ICE used it, and whether any probationer named in the correspondence was taken into custody.