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If You Can Keep It: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and due process Overcrowded cells, overflowing toilets, and no access to prescription medications.

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5 Ways that Trump Rapidly Ramped Up Immigration Detention Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain immigrants.

After 6 months of Trump, we took a step back to ask: How was he able to ramp up detention so rapidly? The big takeaway: The US history of mass incarceration meant a giant infrastructure was already in place and ready to be deployed to cage people.

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The government doesn't get to lock people up without a chance to challenge their detention — so we're taking the Trump administration to court.

US states to get $608 million from FEMA to build migrant detention centers The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration's push to expand capacity to hold migrants.

The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants released from immigration custody to instead detain them in state-run prison camps.

They are calling this — no joke — "shelter in a detention environment." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I don't have the spoons for this anymore but I really think that a blue state moratorium on any immigrant jails is the campaign to run at this time. Organize state and county legislatures and electeds to reject any new detention centers.

First Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.

Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.

“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

Military bases in New Jersey and Indiana will be expanded to detain immigrants NPR has learned that the Pentagon has also approved the expansion of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for the same purpose.

The military is actively planning to detain immigrants for ICE on local military bases in New Jersey and Indiana. This is an unprecedented use of military resources and further endangers immigrants in our communities. www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

Hispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks out Mario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump.

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

Proud to file this case today with our mighty team at @aclu.org's National Prison Project, @aclufl.bsky.social and @aijustice.bsky.social!

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for detaining immigrants at the notorious new Everglades detention center, cruelly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," in inhumane conditions without access to legal counsel.

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

A map entitled ICE Detention: Population Count and Contractual Capacity. Detention Center counts of that day are reported proportionally as circles from 500-2500. Contractual capacity is represented by blue circles without fill. Several detention centers are labeled including Clay County, Brazil, IN; Tulsa County, Tulsa, OK; Grayson County Jail, Leitchfield, KY; Honolulu Federal, Honolulu, HI; Karnes County, Karnes City, TX; Pine Prairie, Pine Prairie, LA; Krome North, Miami, FL; and Guaynabo MDC, San Juan, PR.

ICE documentation from Apr. 14 shows that 84 out of the 181 authorized detention facilities had at one point or another surpassed their contractual ceilings during FY 2025.

Krome North in Miami had about 3x its contractual capacity for at least one night.

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More ICE deaths 'inevitable' as detention numbers soar This is set to become one of the deadliest years for deaths in ICE custody.

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

NEW:

As ICE begins to disappear immigrants into every federal facility in NYC that can hold them, agents are now detaining people with open immigration cases, who would normally not be subject to detention.

People are being held incomunicado for days and weeks.

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Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say

The (horrifying) truth of what happens at CECOT as a result of the Trump Administration's transfer of immigrants comes out: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

The BBB gives $45 Billion for expansion of immigration detention (up from $3.9 billion this year) to create a system of mass detention larger than the federal prison system. What is cut instead? $11 billion for Pell grants; $23 billion for nursing home staff; $40 billion for food stamp matching fund

At least 11 have died in ICE jails under Trump, on pace for deadliest year Administration already nearing peak level of deaths set during previous administrations

With the number of people detained by ICE on the rise, the number of people who die in detention is unfortunately likely to grow as well.

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🚫 What’s being cut:

– NIH: –$19.5B
– CDC: –$4B
– Cancer research: –$3.1B
– SNAP: –$30B
– Education: –$12B

💰 What’s being funded:

– ICE detention: +$45B
– Tax cuts for the wealthy: +$4.5T over 10 years

This is the trade.

We should really be asking why the BBB slashes healthcare to millions and closing rural hospitals, while giving $45 Billion to build immigration detention centers, likely in those same towns.

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

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Government wants to force feed Iranian asylum seeker on hunger strike in ICE custody Mehrad Asadi Eidivand's first hunger strike lasted from June 6 to June 13, resulting in an acute kidney injury diagnosis, according to the government.

Breaking: Government wants to force feed Iranian asylum seeker on hunger strike in ICE custody www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Florida to Build ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center for Migrants in Everglades

Scoop: Florida is building a detention facility for migrants nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” in the Everglades designed to help the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

DHS will help pay for the detention facility with money from FEMA.

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As Part of a $45 Billion Push, ICE Prepares for a Vast Expansion of Detention Space The Trump administration has tapped 41 vendors to compete for lucrative federal contracts.

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Georgia grandfather's death in ICE custody leaves family in shock 68-year-old Abelardo Avellaneda-Delgado died while en route to ICE's Stewart Detention Center. Now, his family wants answers.

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‘Some cry all day.’ ICE detainees face harsh conditions in Miami federal facility “There is an access-to-justice crisis here,” said one lawyer. “There is a due-process crisis.”

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Plans for nation’s largest ICE detention center halted amid DOGE review A planned $47 million contract would have expanded a southeast Georgia facility to house immigrants arrested in the region.

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