Category: Detention
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This OpEd by Congressperson Mike Lawler (R-NY) explains changes to US immigration for which he advocates.
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This article describes pushback about detention expansion in warehouses around the country in early 2026.
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This article explains why Senator Roger Wicker, R- Mississippi, has opposed the use of a warehouse for an ICE detention center – comparing the economics of two options.
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“So far this year, 3,800 children have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Enforcement officers, said Krystal Gomez, managing attorney with the nonprofit Texas Immigration Law Council.” This from an article in Border Report on Jan 21, 2026. Assume this means since the beginning of the government’s fiscal year, October 1, 2025, through some time in…
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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: Los Fresnos, Texas El Paso, Texas Hagerstown, Maryland Highland Park, Michigan Jefferson,…
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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: 325,000 – the number of pending immigration and asylum cases in NYC 15 – the number…
