#ice facilities

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ICE says relaxed detention standards 'reduce the burden' on contractors running its lockups

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate wit

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Trump/Immigration/Police State Round Up: Published 8/7/25 AM

The US immigration system is being militarized. Now is the time to stand up | Kica Matos

Trump’s budget bill is turbocharging an already brutal enforcement operation. We must meet the moment

National Guard Ordered to Do ICE Paperwork at Immigration Facilities in 20 States

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to immigration facilities further blurs the line between military and law enforcement.

Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'

Rachel Maddow points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the United States has changed profoundly in only

No justice left: Massive ICE recruitment blitz raises red flags

Jen Psaki looks at how the Department of Homeland Security, being both flush with taxpayer money but also struggling to find people willing

ICE arrests decline amid backlash to June immigration raids

The drope followed protests over the waves of raids by masked immigration agents in June — particularly in Southern California.

Stay Noisy! Keep Protesting!

Scarsdale High School grad released after being detained by ICE for several days

Yeonsoo Go, a 20-year-old woman who was taken into ICE custody after a routine visa hearing on Thursday, was released on Monday.

Protest at Lane County Fair over controversial Alcatraz shirts draws county response

Protestors gathered Saturday at the Lane County Fairgrounds to oppose the sale of a controversial shirt, drawing a response from Lane County

I am not surprised. It's Eugene!

Stanford student paper, noncitizen students sue Trump officials over speech-related visa policies

DHS called the lawsuit “baseless,” denying arrests are based on protected speech or political views

Trump bans trans women athletes from 'extraordinary ability’ visas

Transgender women athletes can no longer receive O-1A, E11, and E21 "extraordinary ability" visas.

State Department to charge some travelers $10,000 bond to get visas

The first Trump administration announced it would launch a six-month pilot of a similar program in 2020.

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Illegal Detention of Immigrants and Related Issues Round UP: Published 4/47/25

Venezuelan man disappears from ICE custody, where was he deported? | …

Abrego Garcia’s Wife Moved To Safe House After DHS Exposed Her Address On X

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, said she fears for her family's safety after verbal attacks from Donald Trump and g

Doxxing her is state terrorism.

Administration ordered to more fully respond to discovery requests from Abrego Garcia's lawyers

A federal judge paused discovery after ordering the government to more fully respond by Wednesday to requests from attorneys for wrongly dep

Mahmoud Khalil misses son's birth after ICE official denies his request to be there

Khalil has been held in Louisiana since ICE agents arrested him in New York over his pro-Palestinian activism. He instead experienced the bi

Lawmakers visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk at Louisiana ICE facilities

Sen. Ed Markey and U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jim McGovern meet with detained international students.

Palestinian student remains detained in Vermont with a hearing set for next week

A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested during an interview about fi

Detained Palestinian activist in Vermont prison says he's 'in good hands'

A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was recently arrested during an interview

Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations

DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.

Stay Noisy. It can work.

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer de

Activist who took sanctuary in a church during first Trump term detained

In 2017, Jeanette Vizguerra took shelter in a church for months during the first Trump administration. On Monday, she was detained by immigr

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Trump Creates Dozens of New ICE Facilities as Immigration War Expands

And ICE just got its hands on an influx of cash, thanks to Trump’s budget.

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Trump drives surge in Ice detentions of those with no criminal record despite stated priorities

Ice facilities across the US are holding significantly more people than normal capacity

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ICE enacts new policy on congressional visits to facilities

The new policy requires members of Congress to request visits to their facilities with 72 business hours' notice.

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Hundreds of migrants in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 at various ICE facilities

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has reached many detention facilities where Immigration and Customs Enforcement routinely sends migrants. Right now, according to an I.C.E. website almost 1,800 of its…

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Advocates urge Biden to include ICE facilities in executive order phasing out use of private prisons

President Joe Biden this week issued an executive order instructing his Department of Justice (DOJ) to phase out the federal government’s use of private prisons, returning to Obama-era policy that had been rescinded by the previous...