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ICE operated a large, dispersed network of detention facilities in and before 2024, ranging from dedicated ICE processing centers to county jails holding immigration detainees; reporting and advocacy ...
2025 was described by multiple outlets as the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in two decades, with reporting placing the toll at roughly 31–32 death...
Reporting shows that the federal government and ICE are actively expanding detention capacity: new facilities have opened, ICE is converting or contracting to use warehouses and other sites, and draft...
Available reporting indicates that Geraldo Lunas Campos — a 55-year-old detainee at Camp East Montana in El Paso — died on Jan. 3 while in ICE custody and that at least one fellow detainee alleges he ...
Independent and local reporting from September 2025 documents multiple, distinct allegations that migrants and guest workers in the United States have been detained in facilities with , ranging from t...
US immigration detention and employer-run work camps are described in recent reporting and legal documents as expansive and often abusive: ICE operated in roughly 389 facilities as of February 2025 wh...
Texas is a focal point for ICE enforcement: available reporting shows the state accounts for a disproportionately large share of recent arrests and detention capacity, a reality tied to explicit state...
Detained individuals’ rights are framed by federal detention standards, but recent reporting shows repeated and systemic failures in practice, particularly around . Media inspections and internal ICE ...
Local enforcement patterns in places like Utah and El Paso show concentrated, aggressive arrest activity that feeds into — and in some places strains — a national detention apparatus that swelled to r...
There is no verified, public count in the reporting provided that establishes how many incidents ICE lied about being physically threatened by people they had assaulted or arrested; independent invest...
Federal and independent audits and reporting in 2025 reveal widespread problems in ICE detention operations — from data gaps in ICE’s own releases to leaked inspections finding dozens of standards vio...
DOJ and DHS watchdog reporting and Congressional probes have documented recurring patterns of misconduct tied to ICE operations: failures in detention oversight and standards, sexual and physical abus...
Reporting shows multiple allegations and policy plans tied to the Trump administration about building large detention facilities for migrants, including proposals to use military bases and other large...
Available reporting from September 2025 documents multiple high-profile incidents in which U.S. citizens were , but no single source in the provided material offers a comprehensive tally of all wrongf...
The materials supplied do not show direct evidence that the Obama administration specifically addressed allegations of abuse in immigrant detention centers; instead, the documents focus on incidents a...
custody has surged to record levels since the start of fiscal year 2026, with single‑day counts reported around 68,990–69,000 detainees and national tallies cited as high as roughly 73,000 in mid‑Janu...
Medical examiners have publicly classified one death of a person in ICE custody as a homicide in the 2025–2026 timeframe: the January 3, 2026 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana in El P...
Congressional and independent probes into the surge of ICE detainee deaths in 2025 have converged on a series of troubling patterns — 32 deaths were reported that year, the most in two decades, and in...
BORTAC (Border Patrol Tactical Unit) is the U.S. Border Patrol’s elite tactical arm, organized to respond to "emergent and high‑risk incidents" with specialized tactics and training and headquartered ...
Authorities and multiple reporting outlets document cases where people in U.S. immigration custody have become effectively untraceable — removed from public ICE locators, transferred without notice, o...