Category: Executive & Enforcement

  • Watch this video with Austin Kocker (Syracuse University) and Zain Lakhani (Women’s Refugee Commission) talking about a new report “What About My Children” which interviewed deported Honduran parents many of whom were not, as the US policy requires, allowed to decide if they wanted to be deported with or without their children.

  • ProPublica published this article which states that 11.000 American children have been separated from their parents because of ICE arrests.

  • This article reports TRAC data that shows 71% of immigrant detainees have no criminal convictions and many of those with criminal convictions are for minor offenses including traffic violations.

  • While the DoJ tried to change immigration case appeals process through the Board of Immigration Appeals, a federal judge decided that most rules needed to remain the same. An explainer by the National Immigration Project can be found here.

  • Listen to the 1-hour podcast On With Kara Swisher called “Inside the ICE Detention Boom: Soaring Abuse Claims and Little Oversight” where she interviews Ximena Bustillo, Homeland Security Department and immigration policy correspondent for NPR; Austin Kocher, a political and legal geographer and a research assistant professor at the Syracuse University who tracks immigra-tion enforcement…

  • CATO Institute reports that the US now has (full or partial) visa bans on 93 countries

  • There have been 13 recent deaths of Mexicanswhile in ICE detention custody. There are over 13,700 Mexicans currently being held in US immigration detention. Read more here

  • Read here Here is the list of airports, which is subject to change: Chicago-O’Hare International Airport Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport Houston’s Bush intercontential John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York) LaGuardia Airport (New York) Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (San…

  • The Colorado Times Recorder has written this article and created this map to show where 170 “hold rooms” exist throughout the country. 130 of the 170 are in ICE field offices or suboffices. On average, the data show 4,700 hold-room detentions per month under Biden, climbing to more than 14,000 per month under Trump. Between…

  • This article , from Mother Jones, describes third country and other deportation flights that are being outsourced by ICE to OMNI Air International which was purchased in April, 2025 by Stonepeak. a private equity firm.