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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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MAGA megabill skyrockets ICE’s budget to never before seen funding levels

May 22, 2025

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.

Cruel, Unnecessary, and Deadly: ICE Reports Three Deaths in Detention in April Alone

April 30, 2025

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.

National day of action across the country to denounce ICE detention, raids and abductions as part of the “Communities Not Cages” Campaign

April 17, 2025

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).

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