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Several major corporations and contractors have faced public backlash for providing funding, technology, logistics, or services that support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); frequently ...
The reporting and analyses conflict: some sources say the Trump administration’s 2025 budget and reconciliation actions directed toward immigration enforcement broadly, while other pieces specify smal...
Reporting since 2020 has identified a small number of named ICE-associated personnel whose ties to white‑supremacist or extremist networks were publicly alleged and—at least in some cases—triggered in...
The 2025 budget surge funneled tens of billions of dollars into ICE’s enforcement and detention missions, and the early spending went overwhelmingly to large private detention firms and a cluster of s...
Private prisons generate profit primarily by contracting with government agencies for per‑bed or per‑diem payments, cutting operating costs (staffing, services, training), and expanding market share t...
There is no single, authoritative count of “the number of lawsuits against ICE” in the available reporting; recent coverage documents multiple, distinct lawsuits and at least several class actions nat...
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...
Congress’s 2025 reconciliation package dramatically increased funding tied to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), adding roughly $29.9–$30 billion to ICE’s base enforcement budget through Sept....
The available materials do not document any direct role for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Memphis missing-children recovery operation; the provided items either are privacy/pol...
Anti‑SLAPP laws are statutory tools designed to stop lawsuits meant primarily to chill public participation by allowing an expedited early dismissal when the suit targets protected speech on matters o...
The lion’s share of new 2025 ICE detention funding is poised to flow to large private prison firms—primarily CoreCivic and GEO Group—and to local jails that enter public‑private partnerships or sole‑s...
Reports from multiple outlets in 2025 document children in ICE custody facing shortages of clean drinking water, delayed or denied medical care, poor hygiene, overcrowding and prolonged stays beyond e...
ICE routinely uses contractors to run detention facilities and to carry out supporting services; reporting and government pages show private companies operate many jails that hold ICE detainees and th...
The Trump administration’s stated ICE priorities center on mass deportations focused on large, Democratic-run cities (explicitly naming Los Angeles, Chicago and New York) and on people the administrat...
Private contractors are embedded across ’s detention and removal apparatus: they build and operate detention beds, provide medical, laboratory, transport and surveillance services, and are now being p...
After H.R.1’s passage ICE overwhelmingly expanded bed capacity not by running long competitive procurements but by leaning on contract modifications, guaranteed‑minimum “bed quota” provisions, expedit...
Since passage of the 2025 “One Big, Beautiful Bill” (also reported as H.R. 1 or the 2025 reconciliation bill), reporting shows the primary private prison companies that have won new or expanded ICE de...
The recent federal budget dramatically expanded ICE’s detention and enforcement funding, producing roughly $15 billion per year available for immigration detention through 2029 and a headline $45 bill...
Cities and towns targeted as potential sites for ICE warehouse detention centers have promptly confronted a mix of legal fights and grassroots uproar: municipal moratoria and zoning battles collide wi...
Local jails and private contractors partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through a patchwork of direct contracts, intergovernmental service agreements (IGSAs), no‑bid modifications, a...