#immigration-detention

#immigration-detention

While the Trump administration aggressively expands immigration detention nationwide, including a 2,500-bed private prison just opened in California's Mojave Desert, a controversial plan to build an immigration jail at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield is now on hold. The push to build a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center on the air base came to light in April through internal federal emails obtained by KQED.

He arrived in Alexandria exhausted and sick. It was early April, and Amilcar Lisser-Posadas shackled at his hands and feet had been transferred from a nearby immigration detention center to this remote US immigration facility in Louisiana. He feared it would be his last stop before deportation. He remembered the stench of the place. The packed jail rooms where hundreds of men were warehoused together with little access to showers, which sometimes spouted brown, rusty water when they worked.

CoreCivic, the Tennessee-based private prison company which owns and operates the facility, confirmed it has begun receiving ICE detainees but would not say when it started to do so. Lawyers for detained immigrants say they first heard last week that clients were being transferred from other locations to California City. "We are once again housing federal detainees to meet the immediate needs of our government partners," CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin said in a statement.

Florida International University (FIU) is under fire from one of its own faculty members after news reports detailed that the school provided equipment to the Everglades immigration detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The disclosure intensified existing anger over FIU's police partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ongoing labor disputes, fueling demands for transparency, higher pay, and accountability from administrators.

Guards at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail deployed teargas and engaged in a mass beating of detainees to quell a mini-uprising, it was reported on Friday. The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami's Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge's order to close the remote tented camp in the Everglades wetlands. The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for freedom after one received news a relative had died, according to the outlet. A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.

Guevara has spent almost all of his detention in ICE custody, although he is authorized to live and work in the United States. He immigrated to the United States more than 20 years ago from El Salvador to escape persecution for his journalism. Guevara settled in Georgia and continued to work as a journalist, first for Mundo Hispánico, and then, in 2024, he founded his own news organization, , which had recently begun filming ICE abductions.

An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz " must keep moving toward shutting down operations by late October, a judge has ruled, even as the state and federal governments fight that decision. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams late Wednesday denied requests to pause her order to wind down operations at the facility, which has been plagued by reports of unsanitary conditions and detainees being cut off from the legal system.

El Paso, Texas' quintessential border city, has begun its resistance against the implementation of the Camp East Montana immigration detention center, built on the Fort Bliss military base, less than 15 minutes away from downtown. The facility whose first inmates arrived in mid-August is projected to be the largest of its kind in U.S. history, with a capacity for 5,000 people. To this end, the Department of Defense has approved an investment of approximately $1.2 billion for its expansion over the next two years.

Donald Trump has taken to boasting about his decision to deploy federal soldiers and agents on the streets of Washington, despite the unease the measure has generated among residents. The Republican, who adopted the measure 10 days ago citing an alleged escalation of violence, went to the headquarters of the deployment to greet soldiers and police officers. We're going to make it safe, and we're going to then go on to other places, but we're going to stay here for a while, the president said.

"So I'm here now to try to understand better why the Bureau of Prisons is now playing along with the Department of Homeland Security's unlawful, illegal, and unconstitutional efforts to prevent me from doing my congressional oversight."

The migrants were detained Wednesday, the day the program came into force, and will be held at immigration removal centers until they are returned to France.

The report highlighted rampant overcrowding and potentially deadly indifference to medical needs at three immigration detention facilities in Florida, leading to serious human rights concerns.

Khalil's claim alleges he was the victim of 'malicious prosecution and abuse of process, false arrest, false imprisonment, and negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress,' asserting that the Trump administration illegally arrested and detained him.

The food trucks included local favorites like Elote Lovers, Churro Mania, and Che Grill, contracted to feed construction workers assembling the detention center.

What is known as the movement area of the airport is the entire airside. We have to consider all movement in this area, whether it's wildlife or something else.

The complaint alleges that a member of the GEO Group, which owns the facility, allowed Baraka to come inside Delaney Hall's wire gate.

"Assigning resources toward immigration enforcement risks blurring this crucial distinction and setting a concerning precedent for the use of military installations for purposes beyond their intended scope."

The systematic demonization of detainees at Guantanamo was critical to the denials of any hearing to them, leading many lawyers to believe their clients were monsters.

The report confirms that conditions in California's immigration detention facilities remain troubling, with significant use of solitary confinement and disproportionate force against mentally ill detainees, raising concerns about oversight.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley stated, 'only way to beat a dictator is with defiance,' highlighting the urgency of opposing perceived authoritarianism within the current U.S. administration.