Category: Dept of Homeland Security
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The American Immigration Council posted a summary of a new BIA (Board of Immigration Appeals) decision which requires people who crossed the border unlawfuly to be subject to mandatory detention and ineligible or bond release. Read their explanation here.
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Today, we are sharing ICE records on Palantir that show how the company has long been enmeshed in the day-to-day operations fueling ICE surveillance and deportations. These records were obtained via a FOIA lawsuit filed in 2019. The documents include emails, training guides and progress reports between Palantir and ICE spanning 2014-2022.The records show how…
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Here is a September, 2025 conversation between Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies and Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks about recent changes at the southern border.
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NBC News has published this article and video , Under Trump Administration, ICE scraps paperwork officers once had to do before immigration arrests. This signals a change in the background research that ICE agents had done in the past to conduct a raid and what is now being required. Targeted arrests might be the result…
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The FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests and litigation from the Deportation Data Project has provided more publicly available government data. There is now an Immigration Enforcement Dashboard which can provides a searchable database for arrests. Soon, the dashboard functionality will expand to include detainers, detention, encounters, and removals (deportations).
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According to ICE/DHS data and reported by TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) there are currently 181,000 people wearing Alternatives to Detention Monitors including SmartLINK (smart phone monitoring), Ankle Monitors, and Wrist Monitors. Alternatives to Detention (ATD) is used by ICE to monitor people who have been released from detention while they wait for their court…
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David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies at the CATO Institute, has written this post which lists the number of personnel that are now assisting ICE. They are from DHS (Customs and Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, USCIS) and DOJ (ATF, DEA, FBI, etc) along with state police, local law enforcement (both 287g and not 287g).…
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This blog post, from David Bier the Director of Immigration Studies at the CATO Institute in 2020, describes some erroneously-issued ICE detainers – some due to mistaken identity, some due to lack of change in immigration status in government databases.
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Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX) is the charter company that operates the majority of ICE deportations flights. From The Guardian, this article provides an overview of flights internal to the U.S. and deportation flights to countries of origin and third countries. In addition to the data, some individual testimonials illustrate the movement of detainees within the…
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With an analysis of government data, TRAC reporting shows that Mexicans detained by ICE are more likely to remain behind bars that people from other countries. Read about this here.
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