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 data on his Substack; and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a lawyer and senior fellow at the American Immigration Council.”
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CATO Institute reports that the US now has (full or partial) visa bans on 93 countries
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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
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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 Juan, Puerto Rico)
- Newark Liberty International Airport
- Philadelphia International Airport
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
- Pittsburgh International Airport
- Southwest Florida International Airport (Fort Myers, Florida)
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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 January and October 2025, there were over 5000 cases that exceeded the 72-hour legal time-limit for staying in a hold room.
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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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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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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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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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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).
