Detention
1942 - Internment Camps (history)
1942-01-01 America built Japanese internment camps.
2025 January
2025 January
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14006 Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities.
2025-01-29 The Laken Riley Act was introduced to give power to DHS to prioritize the detention of noncitizens who commit lower-level offenses.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5
2025 March
2025-03-15 Leqaa Kordia was detained for overstaying an F-1 Visa but was also involved in protests at Columbia University and may have been targeted for that. Since then, she had been detained in a Texas immigration jail for over a year. She reported having seizures, being forced to shower with chains on, and was refused contact with family or lawyers. She was released in 2026 and stated the detention facility was “built to break people and destroy their health and hope”.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/usa-release-detained-protester/
https://apnews.com/article/leqaa-kordia-ice-immigration-trump-f3c4cb201d00038313f202653b3f4673
2025-03-18 News outlets reported family outcries because their loved ones being detained were not gang members or criminals.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/families-migrants-relatives-deported-ice-gang-members/story?id=119892593
2025 June
2025-06-14 By this date, award-winning Spanish journalist Mario Guevara who has lived in the United States for 20 years had been in ICE custody for over 100 days even after an immigration judge granted him bond. ACLU said he was not allowed to say goodbye to his wife and three children. He was arrested in June while livestreaming a No Kings demonstration. He was charged with unlawful assembly, obstruction, and being a pedestrian on a roadway.
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/a-letter-from-detained-journalist-mario-guevara
2025-06-17 Brad Landers was detained by federal agents while he tried to peacefully escort a man out of immigration court in Manhattan.
2025 July
2025-07-03 Alligator Alcatraz was erected and was estimated to cost roughly $450M per year to maintain. Karoline Leavitt said with a smile there’s only “one road in and one flight out”. DeSantis promises more facilities.
2025-07-11 Reports came in about inhumane conditions at Alligator Alcatraz including flooding, water issues, worms in the food, and the spread of disease.
2025-07-16 A class action suit was filed against the Trump administration for thousands of unlawful arrests and detentions, citing immigrants were lawfully appearing for their scheduled hearings.
2025 August
2025-08-14 News outlets reported ongoing inhumane conditions and treatment at Alligator Alcatraz.
2025-08-14 DeSantis announced a second ICE detention facility in Florida will open, calling it Deportation Depot.
2025-08-19 DHS sent out a post on X announcing the upcoming Cornhusker Clink.
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1957931320044138759
2025-08-27 Long-time community organizer and valid DACA holder Catalina Xochitl Santiago was detained at a domestic flight while on the way to work in El Paso. Even after a judge ruled that her DACA status was valid she remained in detention.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/daca-recipient-detention-immigration
2025-08-27 Washington firefighters were raided by ICE while actively fighting fires and two were detained. The crew members issued a statement in September expressing their anger.
2025-08-28 A judge ordered the shutdown of Alligator Alcatraz for environmental reasons. While inhumane conditions were not enough to close the facility, touting the environmental impact of the facility may have been a loophole.
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-wasted-250-million-alligator-alcatraz-it-faces-closure-2120638
2025 September
2025-09-05 ICE raided a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia and arrested 475 South Koreans for “exploiting the workforce”. This came just after South Korea invested billions in battery plant production in the US.
2025-09-07 The Korean minister stated he is unsure if they want to invest in the US in the future. Tom Homan stated more raids were to come.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/07/us/south-korean-detainees-negotiations-release-hnk
2025-09-17 A preliminary injunction was issued for 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan for overcrowding, improper sanitation, hunger, no outside contact, no access to medication, and detainees being forced to sleep on concrete
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/17/ice-overcrowding-conditions-judge-injunction-26-federal-plaza
2025-09-21 Detainees at the infamous Angola prison in Louisiana protested over inhumane conditions and lack of medical and mental health care.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/21/ice-detainee-hunger-strike-louisiana
2025 October
2025-10-03 Alderman Jessie Fuentes was arrested by ICE at Humboldt Park hospital for asking officers if they had a federal warrant. In the video you can see Alderman Fuentes was calm and cooperative.
2025 November
2025-11-05 A federal judge had to step in and order authorities to improve conditions at the Broadview ICE detention center where there have been reports of overcrowding, people sleeping on floors, and undrinkable water.
2025-11-06 ICE arrested a Chicago day care worker in front of children. The woman being detained tried to tell officers she had a valid permit to work, but she was still arrested while ICE proceeded to storm the facility.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/chicago-day-care-ice-arrest-hnk
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/teacher-detained-ice-rayito-del-sol-chicago-daycare-broadview/
2025-11-26 The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was taken into ICE custody and was detained for a month. She was interviewed by CNN’s Erin Burnett December 2025.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/ice-karoline-leavitt-family-detained
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/karoline-leavitt-nephew-ice-arrest-bruna-ferreira/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onwJ0ZmT7qM&list=WL&index=4
2025-11-28 A 19-year-old Austin Texas college student was returning home from college to surprise her family when she was detained by ICE and deported to Honduras despite a judge’s order to return her to the United States.
https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/ice-deports-austin-student-honduras-21212682.php
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/us/babson-college-student-deported-thanksgiving-hnk
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/metro/babson-college-freshman-deportation-honduras-interview/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/college-student-deported-boston-flight-thanksgiving
2025 December - reports of torture
2025-12-04 Amnesty International reported on details of torture at two ICE facilities in Florida – Krome and Alligator Alcatraz – including placing people in 2x2 foot cage-like structures for hours at a time as a means of punishment. At this time, Alligator Alcatraz was still open pending an appeal to the suit filed in June. It is also worth nothing that Alligator Alcatraz is STATE run, not Federal, so there is no federal oversight.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr51/0511/2025/en/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl5ry3rgzro
https://www.everglades.org/alligator-alcatraz-status-update-127-days-of-americas-worst-idea/
2025-12-21 Bari Weiss pulled an airing of a 60 Minutes episode covering an investigation into the CECOT detention center in El Salvador.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/bari-weiss-60-minutes-el-salvador-prison
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282/cbs-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story
2026 January
2026-01-12 Kristi Noem changed ICE detention center policies in an attempt to block Congressional members from inspections without a 7-day notice.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/11/noem-limits-congress-ice-facility-access-after-shooting
2026-01-15 ICE profiled and detained members of the Oglala Sioux tribe.
https://www.kotatv.com/2026/01/14/oglala-sioux-tribe-gives-update-tribal-members-detained-by-ice/
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5688969-oglala-sioux-tribe-demands-action/
2026-01-22 ICE arrested civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong during a protest in St. Paul Minnesota. The White House then doctored and digitally altered a photo of her arrest to make it appear she was crying.
2026-01-22 Two Brooklyn Park Minnesota women were detained by ICE while they were monitoring school bus drop off locations for safety. During their custody, the arresting agent had a seizure. The women stated they were released from handcuffs so they could render emergency medical assistance to the agent. DHS later made a statement, saying that the women “lied to law enforcement stating they were nurses” and that they never rendered assistance.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/03/brooklyn-park-women-help-seizing-ice-agent-while-detained
NBC News
NBC News
2026-01-26 After learning that wrongly detained people were being released from ICE detention centers in the middle of winter without coats or transportation, volunteers organized in Minnesota and created havenwatch.org to assist detainees with resources like coats, transportation, and phones.
https://www.fox9.com/news/ice-detainees-minnesota-help
2026-01-29 ICE detained 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at the Dilley, Texas detention center. The child stopped eating, was lethargic, and was going through depression. Reports described poor conditions, medical concerns, and a later measles outbreak. A judge ordered their release in February. The Trump administration said they planned to appeal the release.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/us/liam-ramos-joaquin-castro-visit
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/29/dilley_tx_ice_jail_family_detention
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwynzw7jd4go
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liam-conejo-ramos-released-ice-custody/
2026 February
2026-02-14 According to Reuters, courts have ruled by now 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-illegal-arrests
2026-02-16 The Trump administration announced plans to spend $38B to acquire warehouses across the US to retrofit them into detention centers.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/16/dhs-ice-warehouse-detention-center-expansion/
2026-02-27 ICE lied to gain access to campus housing by saying they were looking for a missing child.
https://www.today.com/video/columbia-says-ice-agents-lied-to-access-dorm-detain-student-258411077587
2026 March - 911 evidence of torture
2026-03-06 Local 911 authorities in Texas received hundreds of distressed 911 calls from the Camp Montana East ICE detention facility for multiple concerns including suicide attempts, seizures, fight injuries, malnutrition, medical neglect, overcrowding, emotional distress and pregnancy complications.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/texas-ice-detention-center-el-paso
https://apnews.com/article/suicide-ice-detention-centers-b2d1cb0e4b579e0d89caabd00aa04e34
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/worse-than-a-prison-911-calls-interviews-21958698.php
https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/worse-prison-911-calls-interviews-reveal-problems-ices-130814529
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314928484.html
2026-03-18 Ms. Rachel and other public figures launched a petition calling for closure of the Dilley, Texas ICE detention center after hearing accounts from detained children. Check out her petition on Change.org.
https://www.change.org/p/close-dilley-ice-detention-center-protect-children
https://www.instagram.com/msrachelforlittles
https://www.youtube.com/@msrachel
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/ms-rachel-texas-ice-letter-22160474.php
https://www.chron.com/news/article/dilley-ice-children-videos-22083880.php
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ms-rachel-ice-dilley-detention-center-accurso/
2026 April
2026-04-02 ICE detained biochemistry student Annie Ramos on an Army installation in Louisiana days after her wedding to a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant. Ramos has no criminal history and teaches Sunday school.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/ice-agents-detain-wife-of-us-soldier
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-soldier-newlywed-wife-detained-louisiana-military-base/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-detains-military-wife-soldier-deployment.html
https://abcnews.com/US/ice-arrests-newlywed-wife-army-soldier-military-base/story?id=131780087
2026-04-15 Maryland managed to temporarily block an ICE detention center from being built near Hagerstown.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-immigration-ice-facility-work-paused-judge/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/ice-fail-detention-warehouse-maryland-spring-snail.html
2026-04-16 ICE targeted and detained PhD student Yousof Azizi while he was dropping his children off at daycare because he reported on the war in Iran, and have since transferred him from facility to facility, refusing to release him.
2026-04-21 The Trump administration said it would be sending up to 1100 Afghans who helped US forces during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of Congo or other countries they are not from.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/afghan-refugees-us-congo
2026-04-22 Marco Rubio falsely claimed detained women named Soleimani were related to Qassem Soleimani.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iranian-women-ice-detention-not-related-qasem-soleimani-rubio-loomer
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWuZIiHEhrE/
2026-04-23 Detainees of ICE detention center in Michigan went on a hunger strike in response to horrific conditions at the facility.
2026-04-25 Arizona sued the Trump administration in an attempt to block another ICE facility from opening up in Surprise Arizona, next to a hazardous waste plant.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-sues-proposed-ice-detention-facility-chemical-site/
https://azmirror.com/2026/04/24/arizona-ag-sues-trump-over-surprise-immigration-detention-warehouse/
2026-04-25 Trump’s DHS made it easier to deport DACA recipients.
[https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/27/headlines/justice_department_makes_it_easier_to_deport_people_with_daca_status](https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/27/headlines/justice_department_makes_it_easier_to_deport_people_with_daca_status
2026-04-25 The Trump administration announced plans to open up a PFAS-contaminated warehouse to detain families in Louisiana.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/pfas-chemicals-ice-family-detention
https://www.sej.org/headlines/ice-planning-facility-children-and-families-pfas-contaminated-site
2026-04-26 ICE detained a mother and her five children, imprisoning them for 10 months until a judge ordered their release. In a statement DHS called the judge an “activist judge” who is “releasing this terrorist’s family onto American streets AGAIN”. After the ruling, DHS detained the family a second time. When the family was released, they reported no medical care, rotten food, and that they were not allowed to practice their Islamic faith.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/26/nx-s1-5800196/alleged-colorado-attacker-family-released-detention
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/egyptian-family-ice-custody
SUB WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/us/family-ice-detention-released-dilley-texas.html
2026 May
2026-05-01 Another person died in ICE custody, this time a suspected suicide at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/georgia-ice-detention-death-cuban-immigrant
2026-05-05 DHS closed its internal watchdog offices that track the abuse of immigrants. This came after a Washington Post investigation found an increase in abuse and excessive force carried out on detainees as the Trump administration over-packs detention centers.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5864182-oido-dhs-watchdog-closure/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dhs-ombudsman-closed
2026-05-07 Border czar Tom Homan responded to New York’s proposed ban on masked ICE agents by promising expanded immigration enforcement operations in the state. During a border security expo in Arizona he said, “So what’s going to happen to places like New York and these other people that want to pass this ridiculous legislation not to work with us? We’re going to flood the zone. You’re going to see more ICE agents you ever seen before. So congratulations, because when we send these teams out there, we’ll find a bad guy. Most times we do. And when we find a bad guy, he’s with others. Others who may not be a priority target, but they’re in the country illegally. They weren’t people we’re looking for,. But we found them during these operations. Well guess what? They’re coming too”.
2026-05-22 Detainees at ICE Delaney Hall have been on hunger strike due to horrid conditions and due process violations. The prison is operated by the private for-profit Geo Group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1omqCrvapw&list=WL&index=3
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/us/new-jersey-ice-facility-protests
2026-05-27 After Bari Weiss pulled a story from 60-Minutes about CECOT, reporting correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi wrote in a parting statement, “In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like ‘modernization’ and ‘restructuring’ to explain away my departure. Don’t be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom”.
TIMESTAMP 9:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yUjicp6VqU
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/27/60-minutes-sharyn-alfonsi
2026 June
2026-06-01 The mayor of Newark, New Jersey announced it would push to shut down the Delaney Hall ICE facility.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/delaney-hall-newark-nj-ice/
https://abcnews.com/US/newark-sue-feds-close-delaney-hall-ice-facility/story?id=133513879
2026-06-09 A new report from the Government Accountability Office was released on ICE detention facility Camp East Montana which cited “serious performance and oversight challenges” and a huge drain in fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GCnwm8zwyI&list=WL&index=7
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108886
2026-06-16 Protesters demand release of president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee Salah Sarsour who has been held at Clay County Jail for over two months. He has been denied medical care and religious rights. He is a type-II diabetic and has lost weight.