#ice prisons

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Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt

They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.

[gwydionmisha]

PETITION TO WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL - Support the Civil Detention and Enforcement Facility Prohibition Ordinance

Civil detention facilities cause serious harm to individuals and families, including prolonged detention without adequate due process, fami

If you live in Whatcom County Washington State, please sign.

[macwantspeace]

In Buenrostro-Mendez v. Bondi, at the Fifth Circuit, two extremist jurists Edith H. Jones and Kyle Duncan, ruled that the government may hold immigrants in ICE detention without ever providing a bond hearing. TX LA MS will be in the jail for hire business [$$$]. Painful details:

The ICE Prisons and Camps Are About To Get A Lot Worse

A head-spinning appellate decision just greenlit detentions without end, supercharging an already horrific human rights crisis.

In Buenrostro-Mendez, two members of a Fifth Circuit panel accepted the government’s argument that immigrants can be detained without any opportunity for a bond hearing, based solely on how they are classified under immigration law. Under their erroneous interpretation of the law, someone who crossed the border years ago, built a life here and was later arrested may be treated just like someone stopped at the border yesterday. That’s because both supposedly are “seeking admission” to the U.S., and therefore both can be held without bond.

That is a devastating conclusion. Bond hearings are one of the few remaining pressure points in an overburdened immigration system. Cases often take months or years to resolve. And while a bond hearing does not guarantee release, it requires the government to explain to a judge why continued detention is justified.

As Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck explained, the idea that the government may simply detain people indefinitely without bond is an “extreme minority view.” Indeed, as Kyle Cheney of Politico reported, “[A]t least 360 judges rejected the expanded detention strategy—in more than 3,000 cases—while just 27 backed it in about 130 cases.”

Other jurisdictions have encountered this very issue and soundly rejected the government’s flawed “seeking admission” argument. The advancement of that argument even caused a backlog of cases in Minneapolis, leading Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz to accuse ICE of violating nearly 100 court orders requiring the release of individuals the government was purporting to hold under this strained interpretation.

Judge Schiltz wrote, “This Court recently held that, because such aliens are not ‘seeking admission’ [as required under the mandatory detention law], that provision does not apply to them,” citing his own decision of November 25, 2025.

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Coronavirus Threatens Teenage Migrants in ICE Jails - The New York Times

Coronavirus Threatens Teenage Migrants in ICE Jails – The New York Times

Those initially detained by the government’s Office of Refugee Resettlement are being held until their 18th birthday, then transferred to ICE custody. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-teenage-migrants-ice.html

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