Tag: Detention
-
CBS News reports that ICE detained fewer non-criminals since Minnesota so detention numbers are down. Read here
-
A Nevada judge has ruled, in a class action suit, that “mandatory detention” for all unauthorized, despite their length of time in the US, is not legal nor practical. This after multiple courts, and appeals courts, have looked at the issue with varying decisions. Read “Detained migrants allege due process violations in class action lawsuit“
-
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…
-
This ProPublica article explains that parents of 11,000 American citizen children have been detained.
-
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…
-
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
-
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. …
-
Austin Kocker substack explains where 41 deaths have occurred since January 2025
-
This substack, by Austin Kocher and Adam Sawyer, maps recent immigrant detention deaths.
Immigration Insight 