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.
ICE agent Christian Castro shot a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis in January, filed a report claiming self-defense, and was arrested in Texas eleven days after being charged. Body camera footage drove the case. The question is what conditions made the lie a reasonable bet in the first place.
A federal jury convicted three ICE protesters — including a U.S. Army veteran — of felony conspiracy for a 2025 demonstration in Spokane. Legal experts say the prosecution isn't about these three defendants. It's about making organized dissent too expensive to sustain.
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.
An executive order directing Treasury to issue citizenship-screening guidance to banks has no clear statutory authority — and will force financial institutions to choose between civil rights law and regulatory compliance before any court can rule on whether the order was ever legal.
JD Vance told attendees of Tommy Robinson's 'Unite the Kingdom' rally to 'keep on going' — and the statement isn't a gaffe. It's the American far right functioning as an export operation in allied democracies.
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.
In Houston's most polluted and most heavily immigrant neighborhoods, ICE raids, chemical spills, catastrophic floods, and an inaccessible healthcare system have converged into a single, compounding crisis. For hundreds of thousands of residents, survival mode has become the permanent condition — by
A Guardian US analysis documents what critics call a deliberate pattern: the Trump administration is not contesting court orders through legal channels — it is simply ignoring them. The people paying the price are sitting in detention facilities, waiting for bond hearings a federal judge already ord
The Justice Department is threatening states that won't provide DHS officers with undercover license plates, framing a demand for covert surveillance infrastructure as a constitutional mandate — with no court precedent to back the claim.
DHS has sued the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces to seize 14 acres at the base of Mount Cristo Rey — a sacred pilgrimage site visited by 40,000 faithful annually — for border wall construction. The party that spent decades wielding religious freedom as a political weapon is now using eminent domain a
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.
Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was shot more than six times by ICE agents during a traffic stop. The gang member label, his attorney says, came after the bullets — not before them.
Since October, the U.S. has admitted 4,499 refugees. 4,496 are white South Africans. Three are from everywhere else on earth. That ratio is not administrative drift — it is the architecture of the policy.