#immigration-detention

#immigration-detention

"The harm that's being committed in these buildings when people are being taken from their families and then put into concentration camps far outweighs any concerns to any harm that may come from standing here today in solidarity with people who are just simply trying to live their lives in this country in freedom and dignity," said Rabbi Cat Zavis. "Our faith traditions and our spiritual traditions call us to disrupt injustice and stand with them."

Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves a check-in at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Office the day after a federal judge ordered his release from a detention, on December 12, 2025. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images A federal judge has issued an order forbidding immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was illegally deported to a super-prison in El Salvador earlier this year.

COATES: Tonight, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is out of ICE custody, and New York Attorney General Letitia James remains unindicted. Two headlines that will infuriate the president because of just how significant those losses or setbacks really are. Remember, Abrego Garcia was the Maryland migrant that was wrongfully deported to that notorious prison in El Salvador. The administration was forced to bring him back, then they detained him here in the United States. But today, a judge ordered him to be released after three months in custody because she says his detainment is illegal. The administration vows to appeal.

Officers at the large immigration detention camp located at the Fort Bliss army base in Texas are allegedly mistreating detainees, with accusations including beatings, sexual abuse and clandestine deportations of non-Mexican nationals into Mexico, according to a coalition of local and national US civil rights organizations. In a 19-page letter, addressed to senior government officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and Fort Bliss military command,

The centre was shut in 2018 after years of problems, including riots, escapes and complaints about conditions. Protesters who gathered as the first detainees arrived described the move as a "terrible step backwards" but the government said Campsfield would "speed up enforced removals of foreign national offenders and illegal migrants". The plan has also been opposed by MPs, residents and charities, as well as Oxford City Council. The Home Office said Campsfield had undergone a 70m refurbishment and was "redeveloped to high security standards".

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to abuse people with impunity, experts warn. Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures at the same time as the government pushes aggressive immigration enforcement operations.

Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy has said Majorie Taylor Greene's abrupt resignation is a sign of broader trouble for the GOP next year, given several House Republicans are leaving. She's almost like the canary in the coal mine, McCarthy told Fox News on Tuesday. And this is something inside Congress, they'd better wake up, because they are going to get a lot of people retiring, and they've got to focus.

After nearly a month in federal custody, a Bronx high school junior who was detained during a routine immigration check-in is set to be released, his lawyers announced Monday. Joel Camas, a 16-year-old junior at Gotham Collaborative High School, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Oct. 23 despite having approved Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and a pending pathway to permanent residency, according to court filings.

Officers sometimes will not let lawyers meet with people who want to work with lawyers - even though they are not supposed to. Individuals in B-18 do not get the free, confidential phone calls with their lawyers that even the government says they should have. And sometimes, individuals are moved from B-18 to another location which does not allow lawyer visits at all.

Joel's lawyers say he did exactly what the government required by appearing with counsel for a scheduled ICE check-in at 26 Federal Plaza on Oct. 23. Instead of being sent back to school to attend his second period U.S. history class, his lawyers said he was directed to The New York Varick Immigration Court, and detained without notice or individualized explanation before being transferred to Office of Refugee Resettlement custody in the Bronx that same day.

Eloy Detention Center lies nine miles east of Interstate 10 in Arizona, amid a patchwork of windswept mesquite scrub, solar farms, and alfalfa and cotton fields, with the jagged ridgeline of the Picacho Mountains visible to the southeast. Beyond the truckers chapel and the sign at the cornerCoreCivic: We're Hiringacres of ruddy, bare dirt surround a cluster of austere buildings linked by concrete walkways.

Out in the middle of the Mojave Desert and surrounded by Joshua trees, marijuana dispensaries and razor wire, the remote Adelanto ICE Processing Center is a difficult place to visit. The facility, roughly 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is on a road splintered with cracks and potholes. Once there, some wait for hours to see their loved ones. If a visitor happens to be wearing anything forbidden by the dress code say a crop top, or shorts that rise above the mid-thigh they won't get to see them at all.

U.K. journalist Sami Hamdi, a 35-year-old father of three and outspoken critic of Israel's genocide in Gaza, was residing in the U.S. on a travel visa when he was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at San Francisco International Airport on October 26. His wife, Soumaya Hamdi, only found out he was being detained after a friend sent her a text message about DHS bragging about the abduction on social media.

Soumaya Hamdi told the Guardian she first learned her husband, Sami Hamdi, was detained at San Francisco international airport when a friend asked her to confirm rumors he had been abducted by ICE. When he was finally able to briefly call her, Hamdi only had enough time to say he had been taken to an immigration detention center in McFarland, California, where he remains.

The detention by immigration authorities of a Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer is illegal, and he must be given a bond hearing by 31 October, a federal judge has ruled. Attorneys for Ruben Torres Maldonado, 40, who was detained on 18 October, have petitioned for his release as his deportation case goes through the system.

Family members greeted Emma De Paz with tears, hugs, signs and bouquets of flowers on Monday when federal immigration agents freed her after four months of detention. As she stepped out of the SUV that had ferried her to her home in East Hollywood from the Adelanto Detention Center, she already was holding her arms wide to hug loved ones welcoming her back.

We couldn't tell if it was day or night, said one former detainee who spent 10 months at the facility and whom the Guardian is not naming for fear of retaliation from US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and the Geo Group, the private company that operates the detention center. The lights were on 24/7. We maybe saw the sun twice a week. Windows were coated in dark paint, and people made eye masks with their socks, he recalled.