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.
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]
The propaganda loop
From A.I. to immigrant detention, propaganda is everywhere.
Alligator Alcatraz
The former South Florida Detention Facility, nicknamed 'Alligator Alcatraz', temporarily set up at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida, United States, is under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for violations. The Florida Division of Emergency Management detained non-citizens under Immigration and Customs Enforcement authority from July 2025 to June 2026 at an estimated cost of at least US$1.4 billion in no-bid contracts.
ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back
In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?
Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier
Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
Opinion | I'm a U.S. senator. Here’s why Delaney Hall immigration detention center must be closed.
Sen. Andy Kim: The Trump administration is trying to break immigrants’ spirits in places like Delaney Hall. We can’t let that happen.
2025 Prairieland ICE detention center incident
On the evening of July 4, 2025, a civil disturbance and shooting occurred at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, United States, during one of a series of protests against mass deportations and mass incarcerations carried out during Donald Trump's second presidency.
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.
Offices of Emergency Management
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Community Alert: Immigration Arrests at Airports
This resource provides travel safety tips and other resources for immigrants traveling through U.S. airports.
USA: Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome in Florida - Amnesty International
This report presents Amnesty International’s findings from a research trip to southern Florida in September 2025, to document the human rights impacts of federal and state migration and asylum policies on mass detention and deportation, access to due process, and detention conditions since President Trump took office on 20 January 2025. In particular, it focuses […]
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
Melissa Ryan
America is being run by monsters. nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dh…
ICE emergency guides
Immigration in the US. See also ICE observer guides: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…
ICE detention centers: Alligator Alcatraz
Search terms: South Florida Detention Facility
What to Do if You Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration
Know Your Rights: Five Things Parents Detained by ICE Should Know
How to Find a Loved One After a U.S. Immigration Arrest
What To Do If ICE Stops You In a Car, On a Bus, Or In a Train ~ L.A. TACO
What to Do If a Federal Immigration Agency Kills Your Loved One ~ L.A. TACO
What To Do If ICE Comes Knocking ~ L.A. TACO
An ICE facility in the Everglades is under scrutiny for the treatment of detainees
www.oig.dhs.gov
Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
USA: Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome in Florida - Amnesty International
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up…