A Brookings Institution report finds 145,000 U.S. citizen children have been separated from at least one parent through immigration detention — ten times the scale of the 2018 crisis that triggered federal litigation and congressional hearings. No federal agency is tracking them.
The FBI reviewed an anonymous tip accusing Mahmoud Khalil of calling for violence — and closed the probe within days, finding it did not warrant investigation. ICE arrested him two days later. The administration kept calling him a threat.
A broken federal database was supposed to tell families where detained immigrants are held. Thirty-six lawmakers say it has become a mechanism for making people disappear — and they want to know if that's by design.
Mildred Danis-Taylor confronted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem over her husband's 14-month detention at Stewart, where the double amputee faces conditions that violate federal disability law.
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, who aided U.S. forces in Afghanistan, died in Texas immigration detention less than 24 hours after ICE arrested him in front of his six children.