It’s not just Ms. Rachel.

The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention.

Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

ICE detention deaths are on a record pace. One Texas facility bears the brunt ICE inspectors in February found 49 violations to detention standards at Camp East Montana, including failure from staff to"accurately document required checks to prevent significant self-harm and suicide."

ICE inspectors in February found 49 violations to detention standards at Camp East Montana, including failure from staff to"accurately document required checks to prevent significant self-harm and suicide." n.pr/4sa0F1S

DHS Pauses Warehouse Purchases as Internal Revolt, Legal Challenges, and Political Infighting Cloud the Program's Future Career officials call it unworkable. Communities are suing to stop it. Congress is investigating. And Stephen Miller is still pushing.

"'If it weren't for Miller pushing, this would be dead by now,' the source told me. A new DHS secretary may not be the obstacle many wish it were."

Read more to learn why now is the time to be making noise.

DHS pauses new immigrant warehouse purchases amid review of Noem-era contracts Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem.

Via AP: Warehouse purchases on pause while DHS reviews Noem-era contracts, policies, and proposals.

ANOTHER death in ICE custody. That makes 14 in 2026, and we’re not even done with March yet.

This is on track to be the deadliest year for immigration detention in the U.S. ever. Period.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled ICE must provide access to legal counsel for people detained at the Florida detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

The Trump administration cannot deny people their right to an attorney.

Litigating this case

I am so proud and grateful to all of the detained people, families, attorneys, law firms, and co-counsel, as well as the huge community of advocates and fighters who have been fighting on behalf of immigrants nationwide. Justice prevailed today!

This is an important victory for all immigrants who are held at the Alligator Alcatraz facility. The court recognized the critical importance of detainees' First Amendment right to communicate with their attorneys, despite ICE and Florida's attempts to deny constitutionally-required access. /5

3) post information about these protocols in detainee units in English, Spanish, and Creole; 4) maintain public postings about these protocols on its website. The court also required the defendants to maintain its new protocol of unscheduled in-person attorney visits, and granted class cert! /4

The court ordered ICE and the State of Florida to: 1) provide timely, free, confidential outgoing legal calls; 2) provide protocols for attorney-client communication to all detainees; /3

Thankful and grateful to the individual plaintiffs (H.C.R., H.P., and D.G.M.), and orgs Sanctuary of the South, Bilbao Law, and my co-counsel at @aclu.org @aclufl.bsky.social, and Americans for Immigrant Justice on this huge win. /2

Order on Motion for Leave to File Document AND Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction AND Order on Motion to Certify Class – #243 in C.M. v. Noem (M.D. Fla., 2:25-cv-00747) – CourtListener.com Order on Motion for Leave to File Document AND Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction AND Order on Motion to Certify Class

So proud to announce that detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz won their preliminary injunction and motion for class certification in challenging lack of access to counsel. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71155... /1

Choctaw Nation Buys Former Big Lots Warehouse, Closing Off Oklahoma ICE Detention Site The sale is the second time in months that a large Oklahoma warehouse pursued by ICE for detention use has instead gone to another buyer.

👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court.

DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses!

DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations."

DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

ICE considered 3 sites in Dauphin County, PA for detention centers
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Pregnant in ICE Detention: Handcuffs and Pleas for Medical Care

Thanks to @nytimes.com for this in-depth coverage of abuse faced by pregnant folks in ICE detention.
“It is alarming to hear how these women are being treated,” said Eunice Cho. “When people inform agents that they are pregnant, it’s not really being taken into consideration.”
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This is fascinating. Yes, we should investigate corruption and glad handing. But at the end of the day, we should ask why we are spending billions for anyone to profit from the detention of immigrants in the first place.

Breaking: Judge Extends Block on Maryland ICE Detention Facility, Setting Stage for April Showdown With construction frozen through mid-April and a hearing set, the fight over a $215 million federal detention facility in rural Maryland is heading toward its most consequential moment yet.

Breaking: A federal judge has extended a construction halt on a Maryland warehouse the Trump administration is converting into a $215 million immigration detention facility — keeping work stopped through at least mid-April and setting an April hearing that could freeze the project for months more.

ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many. 19thnews.org/2026/03/ice-... via @19thnews.org

This is really extraordinary. I've never seen anything like this from a government official.

No water for ICE: Utilities to planned Georgia detention center cut off Officials said water would remain off until ICE answers the city's requests.

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Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.

Kudos to these brave architects for refusing to be complicit in Trump’s mass detention of immigrants: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s Mass-Detention Campaign Even with Kristi Noem gone, the Administration’s immigration agenda shows no signs of flagging—in fact, it is leading toward a new humanitarian and legal crisis.

Thanks to @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social for shining the light on the continued crisis in ICE detention, even after Kristi Noem’s departure: Trump’s Mass-Detention Campaign share.google/pbWyBoIaVl7U...

Court order ordering work to cease at Williamsport ICE detention warehouse.

JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.

Excellent news!! Kudos to the MD AG’s office on winning this TRO to halt ICE’s detention warehouse in Hagerstown, MD.

ICYMI yesterday, check out this conversation about ICE's detention warehouses. We cover what is going on, who is profiting, and what the dangers are. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

Judge: Baltimore ICE hold rooms violated Fifth Amendment, orders immediate limits on detainees A federal judge ruled that Baltimore's ICE office must limit detainees at the George Fallon Building after court documents alleged unconstitutional overcrowding and poor conditions.

Great ruling limiting immigration detention in the Baltimore hold rooms! www.wmar2news.com/news/region/...