Category: Detention
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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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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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The CATO Institute reports that data from ICE/DHS shows that one in five ICE arrests are Latinos on the street with no criminal past and no removal order. This means, according to the article, that these people have likely been profiled and randomly picked up instead of their arrests being the result of careful research…
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The Tucson Sentinel reports that ICE is managing a little-known detention facility at the Phoenix-Mesa Gatway Airport which holds 157 detainees. The AROCC (Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center) is conveniently located to deportation flights. The Deportation Data Project continues to request government data with an on-going Freedom of Information Act request.
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This is Austin Kocker and Adam Sawyer’s blog post which is a good way to learn more about immigration detention centers. He reports that immigraton detention centers are reporting a recond number of 61,226 detainees. (This may be undercounted because of local holding facilities of various kinds.)
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The new report explains how the Trump administration is using a longstanding loophole to circumvent sanctuary policies and obscure the full scale of its immigration actions. July 30, 2025 This morning, the Prison Policy Initiative released Hiding in Plain Sight, a report revealing the crucial role that locally-run jails are playing in President Trump’s program of mass…
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Trump Administration Orders Massive Expansion of GPS Ankle Monitors for Immigrants by Austin Kocher Ankle monitors could double taxpayer costs to $500,000 per day despite nearly 100% compliance for people in ICE’s alternatives to detention program. Read on Substack https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js
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Farmville Herald June 10, 2025 The Farmville Detention Center has new ownership. That filing came Tuesday night, announcing that CoreCivic, based out of Brentwood, Tennessee, had acquired the Farmville facility for a total price of $67 million. The deal is expected to close as of July 1, with 100% of the membership interest transferring to…
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Richmond.com Riverside Regional Jail is now a contractor for federal immigration enforcement, which is paying the facility to provide detention services, according to a contract between the two obtained by The Times-Dispatch. The facility signed off on the agreement on May 8. The document itself is heavily redacted. “The purpose of this task order is…
