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Jan 14, 2026 - Immigration detention in the United States has expanded dramatically in recent years, driven by aggressive enforcement policies and historic funding increases....

Dec 4, 2025 - The wave of legal challenges is in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and its new policy expanding mandatory...

Jul 29, 2025 - Kern County, which is already home to two ICE detention facilities, may soon become home to California’s largest immigration detention center—run by...

May 27, 2024 - June 26, 2023 To: Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

Jun 17, 2025 - The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the...

Nov 22, 2025 - How the Trump administration is trapping the undocumented in ICE detention indefinitely.

Aug 13, 2025 - One woman bled for days before she was taken to a hospital, where she miscarried alone in a room.

DETROIT – After months of uncertainty, separation, and fear, Michigan father, Jose Contreras Cervantes, who is battling a rare form of Leukemia, is finally...

Nov 21, 2025 - On behalf of the International Commission of Jurists, I am pleased invite you to an online webinar on litigation before the European Court of Human Rights...

Dozens of transgender women, including asylum seekers who have come to the United States seeking protection from abuse in their home countries, are locked up...

Jun 20, 2023 - In a historic move, BC has become the first Canadian province to end immigration detention in its jails!...

The Bishop of the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, USA, grants a dispensation to members of the faithful "who reasonably fear being detained" due to ...

Oct 7, 2015 - A government study details the rights violations in government-run and private facilities.

Jun 26, 2025 - The National Immigrant Justice Center’s (NIJC) Transparency Project, uses Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and open records laws to uncover abuses...

Feb 3, 2026 - An El Paso federal judge says immigration appeals rulings that curtailed bond hearings have driven a record surge of habeas corpus cases as detained migrants...

Ontario’s government is terminating its immigration detention contract with the federal government, the latest in a slew of provinces to put an end to the...

Jul 18, 2025 - Our comprehensive guide on obtaining detention records provides a brief overview of FOIA requirements, information about the types of records government...

Feb 17, 2026 - A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

A federal appeals court will hold a hearing in late April or early May to determine the legality of a 2021 New Jersey law banning immigration detention

Dec 7, 2025 - Lawsuits challenging immigration detention have recently flooded federal courts in Texas, which has the country’s highest number of migrant detainees. They...

Jul 29, 2025 - Moves to end bond for migrants and fire dozens of immigration judges deprive undocumented detainees of due process and may keep them in overcrowded centers...

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...

Jan 26, 2026 - Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.

Aug 8, 2023 - In July, more than 90 percent of the average 30,000 people held daily in ICE detention were housed in private facilities, as private corporation revenues from...

Mar 21, 2024 - All 10 of Canada's provinces have now committed to ending their immigration detention agreements and arrangements with the Canada Border Services Agency, a...

Sep 15, 2021 - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is among national and international human rights groups, led by the International Human Rights Program, saying...

Dec 8, 2025 - Lawsuits challenging immigration detention have recently flooded federal courts in Texas, which has the country’s highest number of migrant detainees. They...

Dec 16, 2024 - A historian of migrant detention responds to questions from Bolts readers on the vast network of local lockups that jail immigrants, and how it's evolving.

Dec 23, 2025 - The number of people held in U.S. immigration detention has reached a record level, according to data released by ICE.

Dec 4, 2025 - The wave of legal challenges is in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and its new policy expanding mandatory...

Feb 19, 2026 - An 8th Circuit panel seemed skeptical of arguments against Trump's mandatory detention policy after the 5th Circuit upheld the policy.

May 14, 2024

Jun 26, 2025 - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spends billions of dollars a year to detain and deport people who have lived in the U.S. for decades or who