Category: Detention
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Immigrants being held in detention are not given any option to provide biometric data but some cases require biometric data be submitted. This catch 22 is being heard in a recent court case. Read here.
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Read this article, at Slate.com, where a lawyer laments the lack of consistency across Immigration Judges’ decisions regarding habeas.
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The Deportation Data Project provides this report from the first year of the Trump administration based on data published by the federal government
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Read the Dallas Express article here
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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…
Immigration Insight 