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Census designated place in Texas, United States
As of late January 2026, publicly available reporting and government disclosures show that people have died while in custody in 2026, though earlier accounts counted four deaths in the first ten days ...
has documented and publicly reported and other serious mistreatment of immigrants detained at on Fort Bliss, gathering interviews and sworn declarations and urging to halt operations there and conduct...
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 ...
vary widely in size and management, but reporting shows many operate like prisons—secured facilities with strict controls, frequent overcrowding, and persistent problems in health care and oversight—w...
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...
The preponderance of recent reporting and advocacy investigations documents widespread, repeated allegations that detention facilities are operating in ways that meet established definitions of — incl...
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...
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...
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...
Official records do not establish that was killed by in 2026: ICE reported his death on Jan. 14 as a “presumed suicide” after staff found him unconscious at , and the agency says the cause remains und...
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...
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 ...
means shifting units from state control (typically under Title 32 or state active duty) into federal service under Title 10 so they answer to the president and Department of Defense rather than a gove...
operates a sprawling, decentralized detention system composed of federally run Service Processing Centers, hundreds of local jails and county lockups that house ICE detainees under contract, and priva...
Hundreds of recently resettled refugees have been arrested in and transported to as part of a federal re‑examination of refugee cases, with advocates saying many had no criminal records while the gove...
detention capacity after the 2025 bill has funneled new business not only to major primes but also to a cohort of smaller contractors and subcontractors — many of them regional logistics, disaster-rec...
and the support groups opposing through coordinated legal, organizing, and public‑education efforts: they produce toolkits and "know your rights" materials, mount litigation and FOIA campaigns to expo...
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...
The term “ 2025” refers to an array of complaints, investigations and public reporting this year that together allege hundreds of instances of physical, sexual and medical mistreatment of people in . ...