I left with a profound sense of urgency, concern, and moral responsibility. What we witnessed cannot be ignored, excused, or normalized, Khanna said in a Tuesday Facebook post. America can enforce its laws without abandoning its humanity. What we saw at the California City Detention Center is systemic neglect. A detention-industrial complex that operates without transparency or accountability does not put American values first; it puts profit first.
The parents of an Orange County man who died of sepsis in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody is suing the operator and medical provider of a Mojave Desert detention center that houses detainees facing possible deportation. Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, of Westminster died on Sept. 22 at Victor Valley Global Medical Center in Victorville, a day after he was transferred there from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center and 37 days in custody. He had complained for weeks of pain in his abdominal and buttocks areas and treated with pain medication, according to the lawsuit filed on Dec. 31 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
The Bureau of Prisons shut down FCI Dublin, a former minimum-security women's facility, in 2024 after news broke of the repeated sexual abuse of inmates, deteriorating and uninhabitable infrastructure, and cover-up and retaliation from the former prison's guards and staff. Felony charges were levied against the facility's warden, chaplain and several guards, who were suspected of running a rape club, resulting in nine convictions.
She went inside, while her husband remained outside, but an unexpected message informed him that he, too, had to enter the building. At that moment, the officers told them that one of them was going to be deported, but that the couple had to choose who it would be. She said she would leave because he was the one who worked and supported the household. In the end, it was the mother who remained in the United States.
Yanfeng Ge clung to a photograph of his beloved brother, 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge, in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday braving both the bitter wind and suffering the weight of an insurmountable loss at the hands of ICE. Chaofeng Ge, a Chinese native and Queens resident, perished inside the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, an ICE detention center in Pennsylvania, in August. Yet, three months later, his family says federal officials still have not communicated with them regarding the details of his death.
President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has led to an increase in raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in myriad human rights abuses - including the abuse and neglect of disabled immigrants in federal custody. In June, the largest disability rights group in the nation, Disability Rights California (DRC), conducted a monitoring visit at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California's San Bernardino County after receiving reports that disabled people were being held in unsafe conditions.
He explained that after being released from prison, in 2014, he spent time in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody while they tried and failed to deport him to Ukraine and Russia. Both countries, according to legal filings reviewed by NPR, could not provide or confirm Surovtsev's citizenship since he left before the fall of the Soviet Union. They couldn't give him the travel documents needed for deportation.
Cops led us into the street as the new protest zone' and then beat us repeatedly, Abughazaleh said in a social media post. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. She added: Stay safe out there.
Efrain Rodriguez showed up at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan on July 17 for his court-scheduled immigration check-in on his asylum application. It was supposed to be a routine hearing but then masked ICE agents pulled him away. Though he didn't expect to be detained that July afternoon, Rodriguez found himself in familiar territory. He had been detained once before in February 2020, during the start of a global pandemic and the last year of the first Trump administration.
This is not an isolated case, because like this marriage, in which one spouse is undocumented and the other is a U.S. citizen, there are 1.4 million mixed-nationality couples who live in fear of being separated. Separation, however, has become a lesser evil in many cases, given the treatment received by those who end up in ICE custody. Many couples prefer to continue their relationship long-distance rather than enter the uncertain process of detention and deportation.
A group of Catholic priests and hundreds of congregants marched about a mile to an ICE facility in Cook County, IL, to pray for the detainees and offer Holy Communion, but were barred from going inside the facility, Fox32 Chicago reported on Saturday. Nearly 200 people from Saint Eulalia Catholic Church in Maywood, IL, gathered outside the Broadview processing facility for the blessing as state troopers and other authorities looked on. A viral video captured the prayer.
These are the details of 316 South Korean nationals' experiences in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention that have flooded the country's media in the weeks after the September 4 raid on a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia. Zip ties. Helicopters. Crowded cells. Guns trained on bewildered workers. Foul water. Forced vaccinations. An unconscious detainee left on the floor by negligent guards.
Local News Burlington leaders say that ICE is violating local zoning bylaws and keeping migrants detained in poor conditions for long periods of time. Burlington's Town Meeting members overwhelmingly voted Monday to denounce actions being taken by ICE agents at a facility in town that the agency is using to detain migrants. In Burlington, residents elect 126 members to serve on the body. The vote came on the final night of Town Meeting sessions, which have been ongoing since last month.
District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder walked out of the elevator on the sixth floor at 630 Sansome St. on Thursday morning and through the security checkpoint to become the first city supervisor to visit the ICE detention facility since the Trump administration began its immigration crackdown this year. The inside of the ICE headquarters, where immigrants are taken for processing after being arrested outside of the courtrooms below, was nearly empty with the only visible ICE official sitting behind the front desk.
