Our latest press releases on important news and events relating to immigration detention in the United States. For media inquiries, contact media@detentionwatchnetwork.org.

ICE’s plans to offload seven detention warehouses is a major victory for people across the country fighting to get ICE out of communities

Washington, DC — According to documents obtained by the New York Times, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to sell or get rid of seven detention warehouses, a significant shift in the agency’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda. Immigrant advocacy groups and local community organizers across the country are calling this development a major win in opposition to the Trump administration’s massive expansion of immigrant detention. In December 2025, ICE announced it was purchasing and planning to convert warehouses nationwide into new immigrant detention and processing…
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From Notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” to Disappeared in Detention

Everglades, Florida — Yesterday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that they have transferred all people detained at the Everglades Detention Camp, cruelly dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” to other facilities across the country without specifying how many people were moved or where they were taken, effectively disappearing people into ICE’s immigrant detention system. The Everglades Detention Camp has served as a focal point of the Trump administration’s cruel mass detention expansion, piloting a model of governors offering make-shift, state-run detention camps. The embattled…
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Not in Our Town or Anywhere: Social Circle Sues to Keep ICE Warehouse Out of Community

Social Circle, Georgia — The city of Social Circle, GA has filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the agency’s plans to convert a local warehouse into a massive, 10,000-bed detention site. For months, ICE has been moving to open the detention facility without complying to environmental regulations or coordinating with the town and local community. ICE is scouting, purchasing, and retrofitting warehouses nationwide for immigration detention, which are expected to detain between 1,500-10,000 people each. These detention warehouses are a part of the Trump regime’s…
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National day of action to denounce ICE warehouse detention

Nationwide — Today, over 200 actions, including in Hagerstown, Maryland, Atlanta, Georgia, Alexandria, Louisiana, and Salt Lake City, Utah, occurred across the country to denounce immigration detention expansion for the Communities Not Cages National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention. The day of action is as a part of a coordinated nationwide mobilization against Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda organized by Disappeared In America, Detention Watch Network, Indivisible, MoveOn, Public Citizen, and Workers Circle. ICE is scouting, purchasing, and retrofitting…
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