https://nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/batavia-buffalo-detention-center-ice-book-ban
Oct 8, 2025 - Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…
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https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/vigil-at-geo-ice-detention-center-in-aurora-spreads-love-to-immigrants/
Feb 13, 2025 - Community members are gathering for a vigil outside the GEO ICE Detention Center in Aurora, CO "to honor and spread love to immigrants" inside the...
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https://www.kqed.org/news/12069220/south-bay-rep-ro-khanna-horrified-after-visit-to-california-city-ice-detention-center
The Trump administration is holding a record number of people in immigration jails — 69,000 as of December 2025.
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https://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/fernando-mejia-ice-bagel-shop-vo9640uz
Dec 21, 2025 - Fernando Mejia said he returned to El Salvador after requesting a voluntary deportation.
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https://elpasomatters.org/2025/07/11/dhs-ice-stand-behind-notice-requirement-after-veronica-escobar-denied-visit/
Jul 12, 2025 - ICE says it followed new DHS regulations when it denied Rep. Veronica Escobar from entering an El Paso migrant detention facility. The congresswoman says the...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/judge-blocks-ice-congress-prior-notice-detention-center-visits/
Dec 18, 2025 - A federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration policy that sought to require members of Congress to submit requests a week before visiting ICE...
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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-agents-put-us-citizen-teen-chokehold-then-sold-his-phone-vending-machine-near-detention-1771555
Jan 16, 2026 - Arnoldo Bazan, 16, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents who confiscated his phone. He later tracked it to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE...
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https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/24/paulo-cesar-gamez-lira-xochitl-santiago-daca-ice-detention/
Sep 26, 2025 - As a Horizon City man goes free, another DACA recipient from El Paso remains in ICE detention.
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https://www.autostraddle.com/in-the-california-desert-an-illegal-ice-detention-center-opens-with-little-pushback-from-politicians/
Sep 16, 2025 - This private prison company can not continue to operate an illegal detention center in California City.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children
Feb 12, 2026 - ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-immediate-release-ice-custody/
Dec 12, 2025 - A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immediate release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
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https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2026/02/12/socorro-moves-to-block-new-ice-detention-center/88595487007/
Feb 12, 2026
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-last-columbia-protester-in-ice-detention
Oct 17, 2025 - Aida Alami writes about Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, who has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.
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https://dailyyonder.com/coastal-community-left-reeling-as-uscg-helicopter-gets-relocated-dhs-moves-to-build-ice-detention-facility/2025/11/18/
Nov 19, 2025 - On December 1st, the Dungeness crab season will start in Newport, Oregon. Crab season is a point of pride for the small city of around 10,000 people on
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https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2025/11/24/local-legislators-try-tour-ice-detention-center-again/
Nov 24, 2025 - The lawmakers said they now have permission to visit the facility following the conclusion of the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history.
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https://gcn.ie/ice-release-drag-queen-hilary-rivers/
Nov 4, 2025 - ICE have released San Francisco drag queen Hilary Rivers who was arrested and detained for three months this summer.
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https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/tampa-photojournalist-arrested-outside-ice-detention-center-in-miami/
Nov 24, 2025 - Decker, who was on assignment for three outlets, was covering a protest action by Sunshine Movement, which saw many of its members arrested.
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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-bruna-ferreira-ice-daca-b2873352.html
Nov 28, 2025 - Trump administration has labeled mother of press secretary’s nephew a ‘criminal illegal alien’ as her siblings and legal team fight for her release
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https://ksltv.com/immigration-2025/utah-husband-and-father-now-being-held-in-arizona-ice-detention-center/855026/
Dec 9, 2025 - A Utah man detained by ICE agents minutes before his green card interview is now being held in Arizona.
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https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/22/immigration-judge-bond-matter-hurtado/
Nov 22, 2025 - How the Trump administration is trapping the undocumented in ICE detention indefinitely.
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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/geraldo-lunas-campos-ice-death-b2901940.html
Jan 16, 2026 - Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant, died at the makeshift Texas detention facility Camp East Montana
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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2026/02/16/warehouse-owner-wont-sell-dallas-county-property-to-ice-for-migrant-detention-center/
Feb 16, 2026 - The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell...
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https://www.cltampa.com/news/photos-heres-the-ice-protest-that-got-31-people-arrested-outside-miamis-krome-detention-center/
Nov 25, 2025 - Photos from a protest in Miami, Florida on Nov. 22, 2025, which resulted in the arrests of 31 people.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/death-ice-detention_n_69978aa4e4b02424c4c119f0?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
Feb 19, 2026 - His death adds to the stark number of fatalities tied to ICE this year.
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https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-arrest-university-of-minnesota-student-lawsuit-government-response/
Apr 7, 2025 - The U.S. government in a new court filing defends ICE’s arrest and detention of a University of Minnesota graduate student.
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/leavitt-deportation-ice-detention-interview-bruna-ferreira/
The White House has painted her as a criminal and an absentee mom. A new Washington Post report tells another story.
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/02/13/dhs-ice-warehouse-detention-center-expansion/
Feb 14, 2026 - The Department of Homeland Security is planning to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into immigrant detention centers, documents show.
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https://www.justice4all.org/news/recent-court-win-will-support-future-cases-where-ice-argues-immigrants-in-detention-are-not-eligible-for-bond/
Sep 30, 2025
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https://www.universityherald.com/articles/79567/20250415/columbia-students-dream-citizenship-derailed-shock-ice-detention-naturalization-interview.htm
Apr 15, 2025 - Columbia University student was detained by ICE during a citizenship interview, a move his lawyer calls retaliation for his pro-Palestinian activism.
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https://elpasomatters.org/2025/12/08/fort-bliss-east-montana-ice-detention-camp-el-paso-texas-aclu-letter-third-country-deportations/
Dec 8, 2025 - The ACLU alleges detention officers threatening immigrants to cross into Mexico runs counter to the protocols governing third-country deportations – one of...
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https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/ice-detention-center-planned-portland-job-postings-hint/283-72094019-476f-4f43-a7ef-75731cbea9aa
The job listings for an ICE detention facility in Portland closely resemble ads posted last month for similar positions in Newport.
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https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/ice-kids-in-detention-numbers
Jan 29, 2026 - With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/198275/ugly-truth-ice-abusive-detention-centers
Mass detention isn’t merely a step along the way to achieving Trump’s goal of mass deportation. Mass detention is also the goal.
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https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/12/22/80384605/zahid-chaudhry-released-from-ice-detention
Zahid was released around 3 p.m. this afternoon. "I mean, if it can happen to a decorated us veteran like me, who’s safe?,” he says.
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https://greensborothread.com/news/politics/immigration/greensboro-ice-detention-hebrew-academy/
Feb 11, 2026 - Recently released documents include a proposal to use the site of the former American Hebrew Academy to detain immigrants.
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https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/new-video-shows-aftermath-of-officers-ambush-at-ice-detention-center-in-north-texas/287-39c46548-5ed5-41e5-a8b9-7b54fa989f0e
The Texas Municipal Police Association said the Alvarado Police officer wounded faces "a long road" ahead.
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https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/new-jersey-congresswoman-who-attacked-federal-agents-at-ice-detention-facility-files-appeal/
Dec 30, 2025 - NEWARK, NJ – Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) has filed an appeal to challenge a federal judge’s decision allowing her criminal prosecution to move forward in
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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-01-14/More-migrants-die-in-ICE-detention-under-Trump-administration-1JV7keSbRqo/p.html
Data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicates a rise in the number of migrant fatalities occurring within its detention facilities during...
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/27/2355547/-ICE-sent-600-immigrant-kids-to-detention-in-federal-shelters-this-year-It-s-a-new-record?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_3&pm_medium=web
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https://elpasomatters.org/2025/09/24/fort-bliss-ice-detention-east-montana-center-inspection-violations/
Sep 24, 2025 - The journalist recounts stays at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz and El Paso’s East Montana Detention Center on Fort Bliss – the first facing closure over...
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https://prairielanddefendants.com/press-release/nine-defendants-proceed-to-federal-trial-next-week-in-widely-watched-prairieland-ice-detention-center-protest-case/
Feb 12, 2026 - Jury Selection Set to Begin Tuesday, February 17—for a Trial with Severe Public Access Restrictions, Plagued by Prejudicial Statements at Highest Levels of
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https://theappeal.org/ice-increasingly-relies-on-vermont-prisons-for-immigration-detention/
Apr 3, 2025 - People detained in Vermont’s prisons for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection struggle to call their families and...
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https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/10/24/dobrinski-says-new-ice-detention-center-in-watonga-will-benefit-community-others-disagree/
Oct 24, 2025 - Supporters say Watonga’s new ICE detention center will boost jobs and growth, while critics warn of profiling and harm.
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https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/inside-an-ice-detention-center-detained-people-describe-severe-medical-neglect-harrowing-conditions
Dec 18, 2025 - Seven people sue the California ICE detention center, citing punitive conditions, medical neglect, and more.
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https://www.latintimes.com/more-20000-donated-brazilian-mother-karoline-leavitts-nephew-after-ice-detention-592000
Nov 26, 2025 - A fundraiser to support Bruna Caroline Ferreira, a Brazilian immigrant and DACA recipient detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has...
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https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/karoline-leavitt-family-immigrant-detention-ice
Nov 26, 2025 - A Massachusetts woman formerly engaged to the brother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been held in ICE custody for two weeks after being...
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https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/09/17/48029671/updated-ice-violated-portland-policies-with-detention-practices-city-leaders-say
When Portland gave Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the green light to open a processing and holding facility in the South Waterfront in 2011, the...
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https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/russia-children-family-nightmare-ice-detention/6461829/
Feb 14, 2026 - A Russian family seeking asylum in the U.S. say their children endured worms in the food and long waits for medication in an ICE detention center.
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https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/16/immigration-detention-standards-alligator-alcatraz/
Trump immigration officials said ICE has higher standards than prisons and jails. ICE detention standards are not written into law, so they’re difficult to...
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https://elpasomatters.org/2025/07/09/veronica-escobar-denied-visit-el-paso-ice-detention-facility-montana/
Jul 10, 2025 - Federal law requires that ICE allow oversight visits by members of Congress to detention facilities upon request.
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https://truthout.org/articles/ice-has-already-sent-600-immigrant-kids-to-detention-in-federal-shelters-in-2025/
Nov 24, 2025 - Once the children are there, the government is making it harder for relatives or other sponsors to get them back.
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https://www.latintimes.com/ice-reportedly-planning-overhaul-detention-system-hold-over-80000-people-warehouses-592923
Dec 24, 2025 - Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking contractors to renovate industrial warehouses and hold more than 80,000 migrants, according to a new report.
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https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2026-01-15/hours-after-ice-toured-kansas-city-warehouse-council-blocks-federal-detention-center-permits
Jan 21, 2026 - On Thursday morning, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement toured a warehouse in south Kansas City with...
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https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/01/14/ice-arrest-brandon-siguenza/
According to Siguenza, ICE offered him money or legal protection for undocumented relatives if he gave them names of migrants or protest organizers.
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/cbp-bovino-defends-5-year-old-detention-minneapolis-says-were-experts-on-kids.html
Jan 23, 2026 - Greg Bovino defended ICE detaining a 5-year-old in Minneapolis, insisting agents are ‘experts in dealing with children.’ The Border Patrol chief said Liam...
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/uk/sami-hamdi-uk-us-ice-trump-intl-hnk
Nov 14, 2025 - A British journalist and political commentator detained by US immigration officers for more than two weeks warned of “an attack on the freedoms of ordinary...
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https://elpasomatters.org/2020/04/27/ice-outlines-its-response-to-covid-19-outbreak-at-el-paso-detention-center/
Jul 7, 2022 - Immigration and Customs Enforcement has set up protocols that include separating detainees in the El Paso Processing Center and other detention facilities
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https://www.sbsun.com/2026/01/28/bay-area-assemblyman-introduces-bill-that-would-tax-50-of-profits-from-private-ice-detention-centers-in-california/
Jan 28, 2026 - The bill, AB 1633, is aimed at limiting the profits of the detention centers, which take in hundreds of millions of dollars annually throughout the state.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/geraldo-lunas-campos-ice-death-b2901940.html
Jan 16, 2026 - Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban immigrant, died at the makeshift Texas detention facility Camp East Montana
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https://americanoversight.org/featureddocument/ice-communications-and-records-regarding-migrant-detention-at-guantanamo-bay/
Nov 12, 2025 - Records received from in response to American Oversight’s request for records regarding the detainment of migrants at Guantánamo Bay.
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https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/11/19/80333796/slog-am-the-epstein-files-are-coming-probably-ice-detention-footage-was-destroyed-and-girmay-is-cleaning-house-in-the-execs-office
The Stranger's morning news roundup.
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https://www.cltampa.com/news/tampa-photojournalist-arrested-outside-ice-detention-center-in-miami/
Nov 25, 2025 - More than 30 people were arrested outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami last Saturday afternoon—including Tampa...
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https://www.sbsun.com/2025/07/19/whos-in-ice-detention-in-california-according-to-ice-less-than-30-are-criminals/
Jul 19, 2025 - Among those detained in California, the majority are not the "worst of the worst" the Trump administration said it was targeting, federal data shows.
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https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/court-orders-ice-to-stop-unlawful-arrest-and-detention-of-refugees
Jan 28, 2026
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https://www.aclumich.org/press-releases/justice-prevails-ice-releases-longtime-detroit-resident-detention-after-federal-court/
Sep 3, 2025 - Illegally denied due process while detained for more than two months, a father of 5 U.S. citizens and the primary caretaker for his family has been set free...
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