Nine anti-ICE protesters received terrorism sentences of at least 50 years each in Texas on Tuesday — the clearest test yet of whether the administration can reclassify political protest as domestic terror, and a warning to every organizer in America about the cost of showing up.
Dark money from ICE's largest private detention contractor flows to a political group tied to Jim Jordan — the congressman who chairs the committee that writes immigration enforcement law. The connection is legal, deliberate, and structurally coherent.
The Allegheny County medical examiner has ruled the death of Daphy Michel, a Haitian immigrant released from ICE custody into sub-freezing temperatures, a homicide. ICE's response has not changed since March.
ICE spent $38 billion expanding detention capacity for a mass deportation campaign, then pulled back from the enforcement strategy that would have filled it. Daily detainee numbers have dropped to 58,000, leaving roughly 42,000 beds empty. The money is gone. The oversight isn't coming.
Families of Delaney Hall detainees describe a facility designed for invisibility — where injuries go unacknowledged, phone calls go dead, and a hunger strike is the only signal that reaches the outside world.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's curfew around Delaney Hall restricts protesters but imposes nothing on the facility where detainees have alleged beatings and pepper spray retaliation — the conditions that brought demonstrators there in the first place.
Detainees at Delaney Hall told a visiting member of Congress that ICE used pepper spray and physical force against them in direct retaliation for an ongoing hunger strike. The agency's own framing confirms the logic — that protesting conditions is itself an offense.
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.