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Courts and advocates have challenged a wide range of ICE practices as unconstitutional — from warrantless detentions and courthouse arrests to detention conditions, mandatory no‑bond policies, biometr...
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...
As of mid-2025, public reporting shows divergent estimates of the , with figures ranging from roughly $165 to $187 per day for adults in recent independent analyses, while contract-level invoicing for...
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...
USAspending.gov is the authoritative public database for federal contracts and shows hundreds of companies with active awards from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); prominent names that ...
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 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...
As of a TRAC analysis dated April 14, 2025, ICE had contractual bed capacity nationwide of 62,913 across 181 authorized detention facilities, while the agency held 48,056 people the prior night—an ave...
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...
There are active, organized protests against ICE across Florida through mid- to late-2025, led by local advocacy groups, faith networks, students and faculty, and community coalitions that oppose ICE ...
The central claims from the provided analyses are that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been granted expanded law enforcement powers similar to ICE — including authority to carry ...
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...
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...
Since 2024 the Ninth Circuit has issued multiple rulings that either vacated or remanded district-court injunctions touching ICE detention and immigration enforcement, most prominently vacating pandem...
Private prison contracts have shaped medical care standards in ICE detention by creating layered responsibilities, financial incentives to cut costs, and variable application of the highest detention ...