by Mike Ludwig | Jan 17, 2026 | ICE, Immigrant Jails, Migrant Jails, News, Trump Administration
All eyes are on the Trump administration’s brutal “immigration enforcement” operation in Minnesota, where roving squads of federal agents in Minneapolis are demanding proof of citizenship from people of color on the street and lashing out against residents enraged by the deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last week.
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by Amy Goodman | Dec 24, 2025 | Dissent, free speech, Gaza, ICE, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Interview, Migrant Jails, Palestine, palestine solidarity, Protests, suppressing dissent, Suppression, Trump Administration
Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia, who was arrested at a 2024 Columbia University Gaza solidarity protest. The charges were dismissed, but when she went to her ICE check-in this past March, she was arrested and immediately sent to the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she has been held ever since. Although Columbia University student protesters…
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by Julia Conley | Dec 24, 2025 | ICE, Immigrant Jails, immigration, mass deportation, mass deportations, Migrant Jails, News, Trump Administration
Eight months after the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said at a border security conference that the Trump administration aims to carry out its mass deportation operation with the same efficiency as Amazon’s package deliveries, a draft document from ICE officials on Wednesday provided never-before-seen details of how the agency plans to do that using massive warehouses…
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by Chris Kromm | Dec 20, 2025 | Border Patrol, Customs and Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), DHS, Gregory Bovino, ICE, ICE Raids, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Louisiana, Migrant Jails, News Analysis, North Carolina
Border Patrol’s high-profile immigration crackdowns in North Carolina and Louisiana over the last two months have brought fresh scrutiny to the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on immigration raids and arrests under the Trump administration. The massive spending bill pushed by Trump and passed by Congress this summer increased immigration enforcement by $170 billion…
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by Victoria Law | Dec 20, 2025 | California, FCI Dublin, ICE, Immigrant Detention, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Migrant Jails, News, Organizing, Prisons, Resistance
On December 16, 2025, the Dublin City Council in California unanimously passed a resolution formally opposing reopening or reusing the notorious FCI Dublin prison for detention of any kind, including as an immigration jail. The resolution also urged the relevant federal agencies to “engage in open and transparent communication with the City regarding any decisions affecting the site.
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by Paul Moses | Dec 10, 2025 | Civil Rights, Courts, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, due process, ICE, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration jails, Migrant Jails, News, Trump Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS)
When Juan was granted bond on August 6, it looked as if he would soon be freed from a Brooklyn immigration jail to return to his 6-year-old daughter, 10-month-old son, his partner, and his job at a grocery store. Since he has no criminal record and support from his church, employer and family, the Colombian native was required to post only the minimum bond: $1,500.
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