by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Jun 9, 2026 | Delaney Hall ICE Jail, Detention Centers, GEO Group, Hunger Strike, News
Three hunger strikers at an immigration jail in Adelanto, California, have been moved to solitary confinement in an act of apparent retaliation after meeting with members of Congress last week. Last Monday, California Reps. Judy Chu, Jimmy Gomez, and Pete Aguilar visited Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center as the hunger strike in the immigration jail entered…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 28, 2026 | Detention Centers, Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Markwayne Mullin, News, protest
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed that the Trump administration is in the process of drawing up plans to stop processing international flights in sanctuary cities in retaliation for the protests at Delaney Hall, an immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey. In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Mullin complained that local police had not assisted ICE in…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 26, 2026 | Detention Centers, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), News, protest
Protests erupted on Sunday night outside of the Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moved to transfer a strike leader from the jail. Some 300 detainees launched a hunger and labor strike on Friday in protest of the conditions at the ICE jail. On Sunday, activists and family members learned that the jail was preparing to move Martin…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | May 8, 2026 | Detention, Detention Centers, Immigrant Detention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Iran, iran war, News
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested hundreds of Iranian nationals during the U.S.’s June 2025 war on Iran, according to government data released to the National Iranian American Council under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) filed a FOIA request in October 2025 after reports revealed the U.S. had deported dozens of…
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by Lomi Kriel | Apr 25, 2026 | Detention Centers, DHS, Dilley, ICE, immigration, News
An Egyptian family of six believed to be the longest held at the controversial South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, the nation’s only federal immigrant facility authorized to imprison parents with their children, were redetained Saturday after federal judges this week ordered their release. They are being sent to Egypt on a private plane, according to one of the family’s lawyers.
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by Amy Goodman | Apr 21, 2026 | Deportations, Detention Centers, Dilley, Homeland Security, ICE, Interview, medical care, Trump Administration
As the Trump administration continues to rapidly expand its immigration jail system across the United States, we look at the rising death toll of people in ICE custody, the highest in over two decades. The causes of the deaths have varied, but they include at least one homicide. At least 17 people have died in ICE custody since January. “I have never seen anything like this, where I’m seeing…
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