Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is slated to open a new detention center for undocumented immigrants at the site of a Texas prison that closed in 2015 after an inmate uprising. Willacy County commissioners have approved the contract for a 1,000-bed ICE facility, the Valley ...
ICE has repeatedly maintained it is doing everything it can to protect detainees, staff and contractors who oversee many of the agency's detention facilities. It has pointed to the fact that its detainee population plummeted from more than 38,000 in the middle of March, to less t...
Of note, the mean age at death among individuals who died in ICE detention facilities—42.7 years—is substantially younger than the typical life expectancy for individuals not born in the U.S. (81.2 years for men, 85.1 years for women). Individuals who died had low burdens of preexisting ...
ICE announced earlier this month that it was converting its family detention center in Pennsylvania into an adult-only facility and transitioning its two Texas detention facilities for migrant parents and children into short-term processing hubs designed to hold families for less than 72 hours. The ...
and attorney Javier Maldonado, filed a writ of habeas corpus petition and complaint on behalf of three people detained at immigration detention facilities in South Texas. Each plaintiff suffers from health problems that make him especially vulnerable to the ravages of COVID-19, the disease caused ...
Immigrants have gone on hunger strikes over the past month to protest conditions inside detention facilities, prompting officials to force-feed six of them through plastic nasal tubes at a Texas location, The Associated Press has learned. More detainees are refusing food at the El Paso Processing...
U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) maintains afamily detention facilityfor undocumented immigrants called the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas. That center is managed by GEO Group, Inc., a private company specializing in corrections and detention facilities. ...
Ramping up ICE detention in the Deep South is particularly problematic given the remoteness of the facilities, and their distance from available attorneys, expert witnesses, and loved ones. The region is notorious for particularly harsh immigration judges. Many of the hearings are likely to be heard...
As of late January, ICE was holding 14,000 immigrants in detention facilities across the country, according to agency data. The rules announced Thursday will stay in place until they are superseded by a department-wide guidance expected to be issued by DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. ...
peopleare kept in ICE detention facilities as the coronavirus pandemiccontinues to surgein the United States. In May,it was reportedthat detainees were participating in hunger strikes; more recently,a judge ruledthat all children held at ICE family facilities must be released because of the ...