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    Third Country Deportations via OMNI Air Int’l

    March 21, 2026

    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.

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    Top architects question contracts with ICE

    March 21, 2026

    This article, from Mother Jones, describes the recent internal turmoil at DLR Group (a top architectural firm) about whether or not they should take new contracts with CoreCivic and other firms that operate ICE detention facilties.

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    ICE Expanding Office Space

    March 21, 2026

    This request, from Sam.gov, shows ICE requests for office space and work stations in almost 100 cities across the country.

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    Immigrant Detention

    March 20, 2026

    This hour-long podcast, by the Zolberg Institute, is about immigration detention including the legal arguments being used to prevent people from bonding out of detention, the use of third country deportations, and the expansion of detention facilities nation-wide.

    During this administration, the number of people in immigrant detention increased from around 40,000 to around 70,000.  The warehouses that are currently being purchased around the country will increase the number of detention beds in the system to about 92,000,

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    ICE: daily quotas, surveillance

    March 20, 2026

    The Guardian describes ICE agent testimony which reveals daily arrest quotas (8 per day) and surveillance systems (including Mobile Fortify facial recognition technology that taps into other collected demographic and location).

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    Mapping Detention Deaths

    March 19, 2026

    Austin Kocker substack explains where 41 deaths have occurred since January 2025

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    Augusta Virginia warehouse sale

    March 18, 2026

    This article , in the Virginia Mercury, describes the aborted sale of the Augusta Correctional Center in Craigsville, Virginia which may have been leased or resold to ICE for an immigrant detention facility.

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    41 Immigrant Detention Deaths

    March 17, 2026

    This substack, by Austin Kocher and Adam Sawyer, maps recent immigrant detention deaths.

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    Medical Impact of ICE Activities

    March 16, 2026

    MS NOW showed this 10-minute news piece that describes the impact of ICE activities on the health of the general public as well as the health of those targeted community members. People are avoiding health care not only because of their immigration status but because of their ethnicity. Also, some mention of poor immigrant detention conditions, deaths, etc.

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    U.S. Immigration Statistics

    March 12, 2026

    This report, published by the Migration Policy Institute, provides a basic overview of U.S. immigration statistics.

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