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Detention expansion

Rapid detention expansion and its effects on ICE custody deaths.

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Jan 24, 2026
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How much is trump costing the USA taxpayer daily for ICE and all these ships.

The new “big, beautiful bill” funnels roughly in additional funds for immigration enforcement through September 2029—raising the headline taxpayer burden to about $116 million per day when spread even...

Jan 14, 2026
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What specific age and fitness requirements are listed on current ICE vacancies on USAJOBS?

Current ICE vacancy announcements on USAJOBS commonly require medical screening, drug testing, and a pre-employment physical fitness test for frontline law‑enforcement roles, while age restrictions ha...

Jan 16, 2026
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How many detained by ICE are legal immigrants?

As of late 2025 and early January 2026, ICE was holding roughly 69,000–70,000 people in custody, a historic high driven largely by the agency’s expanded interior arrests and detention expansion . Avai...

Jan 27, 2026

How many ICE detainee deaths occurred under the Biden administration and how do they compare?

Official tallies and independent trackers show that roughly two dozen people died in custody over the bulk of , while —about 30–32 deaths—making that single year larger than the deaths recorded across...

Jan 18, 2026

What key immigration laws has Congress passed affecting ICE?

Congress has shaped ICE primarily through appropriations and targeted statutes: major funding packages and the “One Big Beautiful Bill” dramatically expanded ICE’s budget and detention capacity, while...

Jan 24, 2026

We’re any US citizens eported

Yes — multiple reputable reports say citizens have been mistakenly detained and in some instances deported amid the larger mass‑deportation campaign of the ’s second term, and those incidents have bec...

Jan 20, 2026

What percentage of ICE’s post‑H.R.1 bed increases were paid under guaranteed‑minimum clauses versus new fixed‑price contracts?

The reporting available documents how H.R.1 massively increases detention funding and gives ICE multi‑billion dollar line items for detention expansion, and several advocacy groups and policy shops br...