Category: Immigration & Customs Enforcement
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CBS News reports that ICE detained fewer non-criminals since Minnesota so detention numbers are down. Read here
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New Report (4/26) from Human Rights First and RAICES about Dilley Family Prison (near El Paso, Texas).
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A Nevada judge has ruled, in a class action suit, that “mandatory detention” for all unauthorized, despite their length of time in the US, is not legal nor practical. This after multiple courts, and appeals courts, have looked at the issue with varying decisions. Read “Detained migrants allege due process violations in class action lawsuit“
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This article explains the statistics around ICE detention of children during the Trump administration. Over 6200 children have been held. Despite regulations limiting the detention of children to 20 days, there have been over 1600 children who have been held for more than 20 days. In mid-March, 2026, there were fewer than 100 children in…
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This article describes the use of Graphite (from Israeli company Paragon Solutions) by ICE to surveil drug traffickers. This “zero click” technology allows the user to infiltrate a cell phone without the owner clicking on any link. There has been evidence of this technology being used on journalists and humanitarian air workers in Europe. There…
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This Dallas Express article indicates that the US Department of Labor has increased its investigations into H1B visa employers (called Project Firewall) to search out fraudulent applications and non-compliance with regulation. H1B regulation intends to prevent underpayment of foreign workers and to maintain US wages. Here is the Department of Labor website about Project Firewall…
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A judge in California has declared that recent ICE sweeps are made without reasonable suspicion. The story, in CalMatters, explains the details.
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This report, from the Migration Policy Institute, discusses a variety of federal immigration policies that are getting varying degrees of push-back from federal courts. Those policies include the following:
Immigration Insight 