Category: Detention
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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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The Prison Policy Initiative published this article which includes a chart showing state-specific data (for April 2025) with % of immigrant detainees held by local jails, federal detention facilities, and private prisons.
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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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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 ProPublica article explains that parents of 11,000 American citizen children have been detained.
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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 