Source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-surveillance-internet-critics-e3b22f49 The government has paid millions to private contractors to surface everything from potential threats to agents to activities that could disrupt ICE’s operations.
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Source: https://time.com/article/2026/08/04/ice-detention-strategy-private-prisons-immigration-deportation Immigration advocates say the Trump Administration is buying private detention centers to clamp down on oversight of what goes on inside them. “Once the facility is entirely owned by the federal government, that limits the ability of state and local inspectors to try to gain some insight as […]
Source: https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-are-being-detained-by-ice/country/united-states/ As of December 26, 2025, there are 212 ICE detention centers in active use — 108 more facilities than were active in January 2025. ICE may also have access to other facilities, including medical… Just under 14,000 people were in ICE detention at the end of February 2021 — a recent […]
Source: https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/ices-terror-campaign-now-takes-place New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin tries to keep ICE out of the headlines, but the deportations continue They changed the headlines—not the policy. ICE isn’t in the spotlight anymore… but the raids, detentions, and family separations never stopped. …. Most recently, between 100 and 200 immigration judges have either […]
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/29/trump-immigration-ice-cbp-data Totalarrests 458,440 Up 60,560 since 7 Feb People currentlyin detention 60,310 Down 7,980 Totaldeportations 468,450 Up 72,040 (People can be arrested but not booked into detention, and deported without first being booked into detention.)
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/us/ice-detention-deaths-immigrants.html “They let him rot in there and die like he had no family,” said Presly Nelson, one of Mr. Damas’s brothers. Credit…Sophie Park for The New York Times He died on March 2 — one of 13 people who have died in federal immigration custody in the first […]