Our latest press releases on important news and events relating to immigration detention in the United States
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Washington, DC — With details emerging of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) latest campaign, “Operation At Large,” Setareh Ghandehari, Advocacy Director of Detention Watch Network issued the following statement:
Washington, DC — Today, the House of Representatives passed the Trump and MAGA backed megabill that is one step closer to substantially increasing Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda. The bill provides a shocking $150 billion for immigration enforcement – the targeting, detention, and deportation of people – including $45 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention to detain families and adults over the next four years at the expense of vital programs for all Americans. The bill now moves to the Senate.
Washington, DC — Yesterday, despite a federal court order, the Trump administration deported at least two people to war-torn South Sudan, in an alarming rise of third country deportations. Stacy Suh, Program Director of Detention Watch Network, issued the following statement:
Newark, New Jersey – Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed charges against Congresswoman LaMonica McIver in a blatant act of political retaliation for joining a congressional delegation intending to conduct an oversight inspection of Delaney Hall.
Newark, New Jersey – Today Mayor Baraka was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside of Delaney Hall, after accompanying a congressional delegation with the intention to conduct an oversight inspection.
Washington, DC — The Trump administration is reportedly planning to fly migrants to Libya to incarcerate them in the country’s detention facilities, which Amnesty International has called a “hellscape,” with documented torture, abuse, and slavery.
Washington, D.C. - In response to Trump’s 100th day in office, Silky Shah, Executive Director of Detention Watch Network, shared the following reflections in Truthout:
UNITED STATES - This month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported three deaths, bringing the total to at least seven deaths in ICE custody since Trump assumed his second presidency. ICE reported Brayan Rayo-Garzon, from Colombia, died in custody on April 8. Rayo-Garzon was in ICE custody for two weeks. At the time of their death, ICE was detaining Rayo-Garzon at Phelps County jail, a jail in Missouri.
Nationwide — Today, 17 in-person demonstrations and two virtual actions occurred across the country as a part of Detention Watch Network’s “Communities Not Cages” National Day of Action. Co-hosted by the American Friends Service Committee and Immigrant Justice Network, advocates denounced the Trump administration’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda in 13 states and the District of Columbia (see the list of actions).
Washington, DC — In response to the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, increasingly aligning with the Trump administration and several disturbing developments over the past week, Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, issued the following
