







Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts
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.

ICE Detained Them, and Then They Vanished
Under Trump, the U.S. increasingly sends immigrants all over the nation with little warning, leaving families and attorneys unsure where they are.
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.

ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
The move represents a stark departure from previous practice and highlights the hardline nature of President Trump's immigration crackdown, leaving thousands of detainees exceedingly hard to trace and potentially unable to exercise all of their legal options.

“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.

ICE Detention Facilities - Directory
This directory provides transparency and information about ICE detention facilities across the United States.
ICE Is Constantly Using Coast Guard Planes to Move Immigrants
Donald Trump’s deportation henchmen appear to have dramatically increased the use of Coast Guard aircraft to transport immigrants.

The propaganda loop
From A.I. to immigrant detention, propaganda is everywhere.

Opinion | A terrifyingly common ICE tactic targets lawful green card applicants
Arresting legal immigrants at their immigration appointments has become part of a new and terrifyingly common strategy for immigration enforcement.

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 […]

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 […]

Research Shows ICE Raids Are Killing Local Economies
Contrary to the “worst of the worst” posturing presented by the Trump administration, it’s long been known that immigrants (both legal or otherwise) commit fewer crimes than natur…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement – Deportation Data Project
ICE collects data on every person it encounters, arrests, detains, transports via flight, and deports, and every detainer request to local jails.
They Walk Among Us - Criminal ICE and Border Agents — Ohio Immigrant Alliance
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance released “They Walk Among Us: A List of 59 Sexually and Physically Abusive ICE and Border Agents,” an analysis of sexual and violent crimes committed by ICE and Border Patrol agents. It report documents 59 cases of violent and/or sexual criminal acts by DHS employees.

Immigration in the US. See also ICE observer guides: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…

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

The Deportation Project: Inside the Trump administration's secret deals to expel people worldwide - Forbidden Stories

What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy and who does it target?

Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/track…

EXCLUSIVE: Cuban Asylum Seeker Deported to Africa Without ID, Money, or Cell Phone ~ L.A. TACO
Third-country deportations: Guantanamo Bay (by あ) — Semble