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Chief U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee of the Central District of California appointed two outside overseers on Monday to track how long the government detains immigrant children, finding the federal government likely...
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 on July 30, 2026 against the Trump administration's reading of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the basis for ICE denying bond hearings to...
Newly released ICE data show more than 43,000 people were booked into immigration detention in June 2026, the highest monthly total since President Trump returned to office, averaging about 1,438 arrests per day. Data...
The Trump administration has issued a request for proposals seeking construction firms to build or expand immigration detention facilities at up to 14 locations across the United States and its territories, according to...
On July 2, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot hold longtime undocumented residents for more than 90 days without offering a bond...
The Florida migrant detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz" closed following sustained criticism over detention conditions, detainees' legal access, environmental permitting, and the broader practice of standing...
On April 3, 2026, the White House sent Congress a budget request seeking roughly $1.5 trillion for defense, described in reporting as a 44 percent increase and the largest such request in decades, while proposing to cut...
On July 1, 2025, President Trump toured a new immigration detention site at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, about 50 miles west of Miami, which state officials had nicknamed...
On January 29, 2025, Trump directed the government to prepare the Guantánamo Migrant Operations Center to hold as many as 30,000 migrants, a substantial expansion of the facility's use for immigration detention. The...