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The potential savings from alternatives to detention, including estimates from organizations such as the National Immigration Forum.
Prosecutorial-discretion memoranda — internal guidance from an administration about whom to target for arrest, detention and removal — shape ICE’s day‑to‑day priorities but operate against a fixed sta...
Lawful permanent residents (LPRs, aka green card holders) and undocumented immigrants both can be arrested and held by , but the legal thresholds, statutory grounds for mandatory detention, and real-w...
Extensive reporting and peer-reviewed analyses tie conditions in U.S. immigration detention to both immediate physical harms and enduring mental-health damage among children: inadequate medical care, ...
Alternatives to Detention (ATD) programs are associated with very high measured compliance with ICE check‑ins and court appearances in multiple pilots and official reports, and they are substantially ...
Non‑criminal immigrants who are in the United States without lawful status may be released from immigration custody in some circumstances—through bond, placement in Alternatives to Detention (ATD), or...
Federal and state taxpayers already spend billions to -costs">detain noncitizens in facilities and to expand detention capacity, and emergency or offshore “camp”-style operations can add hundreds of m...
Experts and advocacy groups have proposed a mix of statutory, budgetary, oversight, transparency, and programmatic reforms to reduce misidentification and wrongful detention by ICE and CBP, ranging fr...
Rising detention capacity and intensified interior enforcement have shifted the balance between coerced and truly voluntary departures: expanded beds, faster processing, and aggressive tactics increas...
ICE and DHS publish a limited set of internal rules and assurances for mobile biometric tools — asserting narrow uses, device-level deletion of photos, periodic testing, and existing legal authorities...
Detention-bed minimums in ICE contracts—guaranteed payments for a set number of beds—have shaped where and whom ICE arrests and detains by creating financial and operational incentives to fill capacit...
Detention and release policies diverge sharply depending on whether an individual has a criminal record: immigration law creates categories of mandatory detention tied to specified criminal conviction...