#immigration-detention

#immigration-detention

Public records suggest the federal government plans to build a detention center in Santa Clara County, just 11 miles south of an ICE field office in Morgan Hill. The potential facility would be located at 7240 Holsclaw Road, an unincorporated area right outside Gilroy's boundaries. Federal procurement records show the General Services Administration, which handles contracts for federal agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), sought Santa Clara County properties in 2020 to build a detention center.

State officials told vendors at the facility on Tuesday to prepare for a breakdown of the tented camp beginning next month, the New York Times reported, citing its ongoing cost. It was revealed in March that Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican governor, spent $1.2m per day opening and operating the camp that quickly attracted headlines for the brutal treatment of detainees, and had essentially given up on a promised $608m rebate from the Trump administration.

The wailing at the Louisiana immigration detention facility began at night, Marie-Therese Ross-Mahe remembered, back at home in France. Children crying, and even babies. The 85-year-old's detention last month as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown made international headlines. Now, nearly a month after her release, she was ready to talk about it and the late-in-life love story that had brought her to the US.

Immigration judges issued more than 80,000 “voluntary departure” orders from January 2025 through March of this year, according to court data obtained by the Vera Institute of Justice and shared with The Washington Post. Such orders are granted to immigrants who request to leave on their own terms while giving up the opportunity to seek a new life in the U.S. They are not given a formal deportation order, which could make it easier for them to return legally in the future.

This has been the hardest thing my family and I have ever experienced. He condemned the fact that, after being detained and deported to a country I barely remembered, the authorities made him feel that I could go home, see my family, and hug my son, only to then take that hope away from me.

It's outrageous that it took the government this long to comply with an immigration judge's repeated orders to release her. Leqaa should never have had to fight this hard for her freedom. Her detention had been described as retaliatory and arbitrary by Sadaf Hasan, a staff attorney at Muslim Advocates.

I think when I found out about the seizure. I had gotten notice from my team, but also saw some information online. And for somebody to be in her early 30s and never had a seizure before to all of the sudden have a seizure, I immediately thought that maybe there was physical harm to her. Of course, I later found out, it was because she's malnourished and suffering from sleep deprivation.

On Ash Wednesday, 2026, two Roman Catholic priests and a religious sister entered an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, to celebrate Mass with detainees inside. It might seem like a simple, routine event: a religious service to mark the start of Lent. But the Mass represented a legal win for the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, based in Chicago.

Detention operates through speed, confusion, [and] isolation, and so the role of this map is to try to interrupt that by centralizing the information that people will need. The map builds on an earlier version developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor coronavirus outbreaks inside detention facilities.

Hill is one of nine people currently standing trial for events stemming from a small protest that took place on July 4, 2025, at the Prairieland Detention Center just outside of Dallas, in which a police officer was non-fatally shot. According to participants, the protest was meant to be a noisy but peaceful show of solidarity with ICE detainees held in the prison.

With his move to Dilley, Liam became part of an ongoing national experiment in detaining immigrant families. George W. Bush's administration briefly used the practice to provide respite to asylum seekers who had just crossed the border and had no plans for where to go next. But ICE officials soon argued that family detention should be used as a deterrent.

One year after, the government has not charged me with any crimes or presented any evidence that I committed wrongdoings whatsoever. I was absolutely targeted for what I represent, which is a student movement that erupted against the U.S. support for Israel.

That's a phrase that often companies hide behind to try to defer their responsibilities for the actions that they're taking. I certainly don't buy that. Goldman Sachs and its partner, Dalfen Industrial, sold the facility to the federal government last month for $129.3 million, more than double its official value listed on tax records.

At Dublin, she had been sexually harassed and verbally abused by an officer, physically assaulted by another, witnessed other officers sexually abusing women, and been subjected to retaliation. Before her arrest, Cristal had been a long-time permanent resident of the U.S. Her conviction for drugs invalidated her green card, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a final removal order based on her felony conviction.

A vulnerable man — nearly blind and unable to speak English — was left alone on a cold winter night with no known attempt to leave him in a safe, secure location. That decision from US Customs and Border Protection was unprofessional and inhumane, Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan said Wednesday, calling Shah Alam's death preventable, and insisting CBP answer for how and why this happened.

A nearly blind Burmese refugee who was abandoned by border patrol agents has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, city officials confirmed. Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, had been missing since 19 February, when he was dropped off by border patrol following his release from Erie county holding center, according to the Investigative Post.

The unexpected gravitas occurred in one of the thousands of habeas cases currently swamping trial courts. The Department of Homeland Security recently discovered that 8 USC § 1225(b)(1)(B)(iii)(IV) requires mandatory detention of asylum seekers, including those who were released in the country decades ago and given work permits. Hundreds of judges across the country - but not the Fifth Circuit! - have scoffed at this discovery and ordered DHS to either grant immigrants a bond hearing or release them.

Juan Nicolás has been detained at Dilley since January, where his mother said he's been consistently sick. According to reports compiled by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Univision's Lidia Terrezas, and Juan's mother, at about 3 a.m. on Sunday, Juan suffered a "medical episode" where he was "choking on his own vomit." He was rushed to a hospital on Monday night and diagnosed with bronchitis.

Yes, that's still the plan, that we are going back to Azerbaijan," he said.