Category: Detention
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This article refers to a Washington Post article that describes the DHS/ICE plan to establish a new network of warehouses to hold and process people who will be deported during 2026 : 15 small processing center warehouses (holding 500-1500 persons) in these locations: 7 larger holding center warehouses (housing 5,000 – 10,000 persons) in
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This aricle, ICE is Opening Shuttered Prisons as Detention Centers, (written and podcast of Morning Edition from NPR) describes the nationwide effort to create more detention space (counted as “beds”) throughout the country. This is to hold more immigrant detainees who are unauthorized and/or under consideration for deportation.
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This report, After the Blitz – What our Chicago Neighbors are facing in ICE Detention, by the National Immigrant Justice Center, describes what has happened to those people who were detained in the Chicago area, where they are being detained, and what has happened to them since their arrest.
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This report, ICE Detention Expansion under Trump 2.0 – Military Bases, from Detention Watch Network, describes the increased use of military bases for immigrant detention during 2025.
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ProPublica reports that over 600 juveniles have been put in federal government custody during 2025 that have been apprehended during traffic stops, immigration court hearings, ICE check-ins, or home or business raids. These juveniles are kept in one of 170 Office of Refugee Resettlement (part of Health and Human Services) shelters. The average stay is…
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During his keynote address at a recent gala to raise money for Immigration Law and Justice of New York, Austin Kocher (a professor at Syracuse University) cites these 7 key statistics which tell the story of US immigration currently:
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This article, by the Vera Institute of Justice, shares information about the expansion of federal Immigrant Detention in the US – both the number of facilities and the number of immigrants. This includes:
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This report, The Truth Behind these Walls, outlines the deficiencies (Medical, Food, Guard Behavior, Living Conditions) that are present in the Aurora Detention Facility in Aurora, Colorado.
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This article explains why ICE is detaining a 13 year-old boy (whose family in Massachusetts has a pending asylum case) in Virginia’s Northwest Regional Juvenile Detention Facility in Winchester.
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Here you can listen to an hour-long discussion with Austin Kocher (Syracuse University) about the new book, “Immigration Detention, Inc” by Nancy Heimstra (Stonybrook University) and Deirdre Conlon (University of Leeds).
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