This article explains the statistics around ICE detention of children during the Trump administration. Over 6200 children have been held. Despite regulations limiting the detention of children to 20 days, there have been over 1600 children who have been held for more than 20 days.
In mid-March, 2026, there were fewer than 100 children in detention.
Good charts of children in detention, adults in immigrant detention.
This TRAC report shows the mothly % of asylum cases granted and denied – showing that the current denial rate is 80%.
TRAC is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse which references government data (from Department of Homeland Security) for it’s reports and data summaries.
There are over 10,000 doctors with H1B (specialty) visas and 17,000 doctors with J1 (exchange visitor) currently practicing in the U.S. The visa freeze (and delays of renewal) by USCIS is causing havoc for these doctors many of whom work in rural areas of the U.S. Read here.
This article describes the use of Graphite (from Israeli company Paragon Solutions) by ICE to surveil drug traffickers. This “zero click” technology allows the user to infiltrate a cell phone without the owner clicking on any link. There has been evidence of this technology being used on journalists and humanitarian air workers in Europe. There is some questions about whether this technology is being used by DHS on U.S. protesters.
This Dallas Express article indicates that the US Department of Labor has increased its investigations into H1B visa employers (called Project Firewall) to search out fraudulent applications and non-compliance with regulation. H1B regulation intends to prevent underpayment of foreign workers and to maintain US wages.
Here is the Department of Labor website about Project Firewall with more resources and information.
The Migration Policy Institute has issued a short article about the various ways that this administration has reduced legal immigration and how that reduction will affect the total U.S. population and our economic growth and competitiveness.
A judge in California has declared that recent ICE sweeps are made without reasonable suspicion. The story, in CalMatters, explains the details.
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