California lawmakers tour private ICE facility via BorderReport — "Even though they know we know they clean up when we show up, just the fact that we show up, they know we’re watching, that’s why being here and asking questions is important," said Jacobs.

California lawmakers toured a private ICE facility to monitor conditions and hold the agency accountable. The visit aimed to ensure transpa...

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73-year-old grandmother detained by ICE returns home in fear via BorderReport — A 73-year-old woman is back home with her family after spending more than three weeks in federal immigration custody, but her legal fight is far from over.

A 73-year-old grandmother detained by ICE has returned home, though her legal battle continues after over three weeks in custody.

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Headshot of Efrat Arbel, Associate Professor of Law. UBC Centre for Migration Studies logo appears on a purple panel to the right.

We spoke to CMS affiliate Dr. Efrat Arbel, KC, (@allard.ubc.ca) about immigration detention in Canada and Detention Stories — her new project telling first-hand stories through research, a graphic novel, film, and VR.

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Two Thirds of People Arrested by ICE in Minnesota Surge Had No Criminal Records, New Data Reveals via The Intercept — The White House had said all the thousands of people arrested were “dangerous criminal” immigrants. The post Two Thirds of People Arrested by ICE in Minnesota Surge Had No Criminal Records, New Data Reveals appeared first on The Intercept .

New data shows two-thirds of people arrested by ICE in Minnesota during a recent surge had no prior criminal records, contradicting White House claims.

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Federal Judge Orders Improved Attorney Access at Florida Immigration Detention Center — Democracy Observer article

A federal judge mandated better attorney access at a Florida immigration detention center, ensuring due process and legal represe...

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Officials at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ must give attorneys access to clients, judge rules via US news | The Guardian — Authorities must also provide detainees access to free and private legal phone calls and allow lawyers to visit unannounced A federal judge ruled on Friday that officials at Florida’s state-run immigration jail, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, must give attorneys better access to their detained clients. The order by federal judge Sheri Polster Chappell, from the middle district of Florida, said facility officials must provide access to confidential, private, free and unmonitored outgoing legal tele

A federal judge ruled Florida's immigration jail must grant attorneys better access to clients, including private phone calls and unannounced visits.

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Appeals court lets Trump administration hold many immigration detainees without bond via Home - CBSNews.com — A panel of appeals court judges handed the Trump administration a major legal victory in its quest to detain large swaths of immigrants living in the country illegally without bond.

Appeals court ruled the Trump administration can detain many immigrants without bond, a legal win for the administration's immigration policies.

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Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ‘lie low’ whatever their legal status via US news | The Guardian — Tania Warner says she has documents showing she is in the US legally, but immigration agents were not swayed Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A Canadian woman who has been imprisoned with her seven-year-old daughter by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has cautioned other immigrants that they are at risk of detention, even if they follow the correct legal process – and warned them to keep out of sight for as long as Donald Trump is president.

A Canadian woman detained by ICE, despite legal documents, advises immigrants to avoid attention regardless of status while Trump is in office.

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NM Justice Department: Otero County violated open meeting law with ICE contract via BorderReport — EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- The New Mexico Department of Justice says it has determined that the Otero County Commission violated the state's Open Meetings Act (OMA) when it convened an emergency meeting on March 13, to renew a federal detention services contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As a result of this determination, the [...]

New Mexico's Justice Department found Otero County violated open meeting law by renewing its ICE detention contract in an emergency meeting.

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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids via ProPublica — The post Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids appeared first on ProPublica .

ProPublica reports over 11,000 parents of US citizen children were detained under Trump-era policies, separating families.

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US Ramps Up Deportation of Pregnant People via Human Rights Watch News — Click to expand Image A woman is detained by US federal agents after exiting a court hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K.Javits Federal Building in New York City, on September 3, 2025. © 2025 Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 363 pregnant, postpartum, or nursing women between January 1, 2025, and February 16, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in response to a request from US senators. These figures reveal

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 363 pregnant, postpartum, or nursing women between January 2025 and February 2026. Data was released by the Department of Homeland...

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Mexican teen dies while being held in US immigration custody via BBC News — Royer Perez-Jimenez died amid a surge of migrant deaths under Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

A Mexican teenager died while in US immigration custody, marking another death during a period of increased migrant fatalities.

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New York high school student released after 10 months in ICE facility via US news | The Guardian — The detention of Dylan Lopez Contreras, 20, of Venezuela, a freshman in the Bronx, sparked national outrage A New York high school student who was detained at an immigration courthouse in May last year, sparking national outrage, was released on Wednesday. Dylan Lopez Contreras, 20, of Venezuela was a freshman at Ellis Prep academy, a Bronx public school dedicated exclusively to students who have recently arrived in the US. It was the first widely known instance of a public school student being

A New York high school student detained by ICE for 10 months was released Wednesday, following widespread national outrage. The 20-year-old Venezuelan is a freshman a...

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Utah erupts after uncovering ICE’s secret detention center deal via The Hill News — It’s no surprise the Trump administration tried its best to keep its latest Utah detention center plan a secret; six in 10 Americans say ICE has gone too far.

Utah is facing backlash after the discovery of a secret ICE detention center deal, as public concern over the agency's actions grows.

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Last protester in detention after Trump's campus crackdown has been released via NPR Topics: News — Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March.

Following campus protests, the last detained protester, Leqaa Kordia, has been released from U.S. immigration custody in Texas after nearly a year.

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Seitz calls mass detention, deportations a 'grave moral evil' via BorderReport — EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz says the "current campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity." Seitz issued a pastoral letter on mass detentions and mass deportations after Mass on Sunday, March 12. [...]

Bishop Seitz condemns mass detention and deportations as a grave moral evil, urging opposition through prayer, peaceful action, and solidarity.

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The Artificial Incarceration-Immigration Funding Divide Two funding leaders make a forceful case that siloed grantmaking is holding advocates back from confronting Trump-era immigrant detention and solitary confinement.

Two funding leaders make a forceful case that siloed grantmaking is holding advocates back from confronting Trump-era immigrant detention and solitary confinement.

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Enforcement is not punishment: ICE must stop treating immigrants like criminals via The Hill News — Trump’s expansion of immigration detention violates basic human rights and turns release and legal review into a pay-to-play system for due process.

ICE's expanded detention practices under Trump violate human rights, turning legal review into a pay-to-play system for immigrants.

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Afghan asylum seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says via US news | The Guardian — Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, died on Saturday in Texas less than 24 hours after being detained An Afghan immigrant who previously worked with the United States military in Afghanistan and later sought asylum in the US died over the weekend in Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) custody less than 24 hours after being detained in Texas, an advocacy group said on Sunday. Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, who was living in a Dallas suburb with his wife and six children while his asylum case remai

Afghan asylum seeker Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in ICE custody in Texas, an advocacy group reports. He was detained less than 24 hours prior.

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Wave of US court rulings frees Indian migrants from detention - Yes Punjab News US federal courts order release or bond hearings for 15 Indian migrants, citing due process violations in immigration detention.

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ICE has released Cambodian Genocide survivor Sithy Yi from immigration detention following an order by a federal judge. Yi, who fled the genocide and came to the U.S. with her family in 1981, was detained by ICE at a routine immigration check-in in Santa Ana on Jan. 8 and held at the Adelanto Detention Facility for almost two months. Follow her Yi's story at the link in the comments. ✍️ Jordan Rynning and Nick Gerda 📸 Courtesy Sithea San

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A large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors amid measles outbreak A lawmaker says a large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak. U.S. Rep.

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A large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors amid measles outbreak A lawmaker says a large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak. U.S. Rep.

Large immigrant detention camp at Fort Bliss is closed to visitors due to measles outbreak.
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An array of colored boxes, each with the name of a detention facility, colored by type of contract with ICE and with bolded names for those recently opened/reactivated.

ICE detention facilities in FY 2026.

Colors are by type of contract, though many of the "jails" are themselves state facilities operated by private prison corporations, Bolded names indicate facilities opened or reactivated since October 1, 2024.

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...In January, ICE bought a warehouse in Upper Bern Township, Pennsylvania, not far outside of Philadelphia, for $87.4m. In Williamsport, Maryland, outside Hagerstown, the cost of a facility on a nearly 54-acre plot was $102m."

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...Another building, along the southern border in San Antonio, Texas, was valued at $37m; it’s 640,000 sq ft...

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ICE holds people in disgusting conditions. Now it’s turning warehouses into camps | Moira Donegan The Trump administration has bought warehouses across the US that could hold thousands. But resistance is growing

"There is a vast building, reportedly the size of seven football fields, in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix; ICE bought it for $70m...

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...one of whom is a legal permanent resident, have agreed to leave the United States immediately. Their case raises questions about why the government is continuing to hold him at all."

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Gay man says ICE is keeping his husband jailed even though they’ve agreed to leave the U.S. “We applied for asylum, we got married ... every legal step that needs to be done, we have done that. But ICE now is lying,” Samir Gadirov says.

"A married couple from Azerbaijan says the Trump administration is keeping one husband locked in an immigration detention center in Georgia even though both men...

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Little-used ICE agreements with local police have exploded under Trump Partnerships between ICE and local law enforcement agencies have expanded widely under the second Trump administration, data analyzed by NPR shows.

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