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Our latest press releases on important news and events relating to immigration detention in the United States

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Senate Democrats fully co-signed Trump's dangerous anti-immigrant agenda

March 17, 2025

Washington, DC — On Friday the Senate passed a Trump-backed bill that gives billions more for detention and deportation, including a staggering budget increase of nearly $500 million for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), bringing the agency to a nearly $10 billion budget. In response, Setareh Ghandehari, Detention Watch Network’s advocacy director, issued the following statement:

The Senate must block the House bill as a rebuke of Trump’s hateful agenda

March 12, 2025

Washington, DC — The House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution late Tuesday that gives the Trump administration billions more for detention and deportation, including a staggering budget increase of nearly $500 million for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), bringing the agency to a nearly $10 billion budget. In response, Setareh Ghandehari, Detention Watch Network’s advocacy director, issued the following statement:

This week in immigration detention – detention deaths, targeting children, and expanded detention capacity – including the first new detention center under this presidency in New Jersey

February 27, 2025

Washington, DC — This week, the Trump administration’s cruel, multi-layered immigration detention expansion plan moved full steam ahead with the news of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention contract approvals in Ohio, New Jersey, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. This comes the same week the administration launched a concerted effort to target unaccompanied children, and a week after the tragic death of Maksym Chernayak, 44, who died in ICE custody on February 20 in Florida.

Esta semana en la detención de inmigrantes– muertes bajo custodia, haciendo un blanco de niñes, la capacidad de detención expandida, incluyendo el primer centro de detención nuevo bajo esta presidencia en Nueva Jersey

February 27, 2025

Washington, DC — Esta semana, el plan cruel y multidimensional de la administración de
Trump para la expansión de la detención migratoria ha seguido adelante viento en popa con
noticias de aprobaciones de contratos del Servicio de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE por sus siglas
en ingles) en Ohio, Nueva Jersey, Nevada, Oklahoma, y Mississisippi. Esto sucedió la misma
semana que la administración lanzó un esfuerzo dedicado a enfocarse en menores sin
acompañamiento, una semana después de la trágica muerte de Maksym Chernayak, 44, que

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