Sen. Andy Kim: The Trump administration is trying to break immigrants’ spirits in places like Delaney Hall. We can’t let that happen.
“Warehousing Human Beings”
Former immigration judge Andrea Sáenz and American Immigration Council’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on the conditions at Delaney Hall and other ICE detention centers across the U.S.
Dilley Immigration Processing Center
The South Texas Family Residential Center (also called Dilley Immigration Processing Center) is an immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas. First opened in December 2014, under Barack Obama, it has a capacity of 2,400 and is intended to detain mainly women and children from Central America.[2] United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) closed the detention center in June 2024, citing cost savings to add more beds in other facilities as the Biden administration implemented new border restrictions. It reopened the following year, in 2025.[3]
‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish
Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
Children do not deserve immigration detention.
Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center — ProPublica
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by those locked inside, with few ways to get help.
Opinion | 3 ways you can stand against the cruelty of family immigration detention
Elora Mukherjee: Children held in Dilley detention center face panic attacks, malnutrition and suicidal ideation. We must call on our representatives to stop the cruelty.
Toolkit: Lost in the US immigration detention system — Freedom for Immigrants
Below are some scenarios where your friend or loved one might be depending on how they interacted with immigration enforcement:
ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice
Every year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subjects hundreds of thousands of people to civil immigration detention—a practice that is unjust, inhumane, and completely unnecessary. It does so under a veil of secrecy, sharing only limited, often error-prone statistics with the public. ICE’s failure to regularly release accurate, complete, and accessible data to the public enables it to operate its multi-billion-dollar detention network with impunity and little oversight.
A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids
The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the U.S., putting it next to a Louisiana airfield that has become the nation’s largest hub of deportation flights.
House Democrats Introduce Bill to Help Wrongfully Detained Citizens Sue ICE — ProPublica
We recently reported that more than 500 American citizens have been detained by immigration agents. Now House members are moving to make it easier for those detained to seek justice through the courts.
Community Alert: Immigration Arrests at Airports
This resource provides travel safety tips and other resources for immigrants traveling through U.S. airports.
Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are raising concerns around vulnerabilities Canadians face while living in the U.S., especially over being registered to vote.
10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies
A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.
Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.
USA: "We had whistles, they had guns": Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and the Case to Abolish ICE - Amnesty International
Amnesty International has documented that, since taking office on 20 January 2025, the Trump administration has subjected migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to a wide range of human rights violations. The administration is implementing a mass detention and deportation system, fuelled by racist, xenophobic and false narratives and white supremacist theories, whose objective is to […]
