TERROR: Detention Centers
1942 - Internment Camps (history)
1942-01-01 America built Japanese internment camps.
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2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14006 Reforming Our Incarceration System To Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities.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 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 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 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
2025-08-28 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
2025-09-17 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 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 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
2026-01-26 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 State Representatives made efforts to visit 5-year-old detainee Liam Ramos and his father at the Dilley Texas detention center, and learned that the child had stopped eating, was lethargic, and going through depression. It was only after national attention that the child and his father were released in February on judge orders. The Trump administration stated they would plan to appeal the release. The father stated the abandonment accusations were untrue, and they refused medical treatment to the child during custody.
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
2026-02-16 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 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 YouTube celebrity Ms. Rachel and dozens of celebrities banded together to get a petition going calling for the immediate closure of Dilley detention center in Texas. The YouTuber and children’s entertainer spoke out after hearing directly from children in the Texas ICE facility describing emotional torture and horrendous conditions. Her petition can be found at 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/