Appeals court sharply limits ICE’s massive expansion of detention - POLITICO

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 ruling concluded that detainees awaiting the outcome of their deportation proceedings must be afforded a bond hearing within 90 days...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/02/appeals-court-texas-limits-ice-detention-00986586

 

DHS watchdog opens probes into ICE treatment of detainees - POLITICO

Per a memo to ICE chief David Venturella posted on the watchdog’s website, the DHS inspector general is looking at whether “systemic factors, policies, or processes contributed to detainee deaths that occurred in ICE,” from October of 2021 through March 2026. That covers the tenures of both former Secretaries Alejandro Mayorkas and Kristi Noem...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25/dhs-watchdog-opens-probes-into-ice-treatment-of-detainees-00976800

 

ICE detainees dying by suicide at 'alarming' rate, AP investigation finds | PBS News

"Something is going profoundly wrong from any kind of public health or mental health perspective," said Dr. Sanjay Basu, a University of California-San Francisco epidemiologist who cowrote a study documenting the increase in mortality and suicide rates among ICE detainees. "This is one of those alarming, sudden increases."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ice-detainees-dying-by-suicide-at-alarming-rate-ap-investigation-finds

 

They’ve been detained by ICE and ordered deported. Judges are releasing them from custody. - POLITICO

A POLITICO analysis of immigration detention cases has found that federal judges have ordered bond hearings and, more often, outright release for more than 400 people detained under these circumstances. And the rebukes have come from judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/ice-detainees-deportation-orders-rulings-00878579

Judges decry treatment of nursing and pregnant detainees in ICE custody - POLITICO

A Myanmar refugee, with a nursing five-month-old at home, whisked abruptly to Texas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A Massachusetts woman in her third trimester, held under ICE's guard at a hospital after experiencing medical distress in ICE detention. An Indian national who is three months pregnant and whose weight dropped to 90 pounds while in an ICE facility. 

Federal judges are sounding alarms about the Trump administration's treatment of pregnant and nursing detainees in ICE custody — and the administration has given the courts conflicting, unclear answers about whether it is following its own policies that sharply restrict those detentions…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/18/pregnant-nursing-ice-detainees-00784683 

 

Judge orders hundreds detained by ICE in Chicago area released over the next week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2o_mdDlD80

 

‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities

The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions, inadequate food and water, exposure to extreme temperatures, denial of access to attorneys, and child separation…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/physical-sexual-abuse-pregnant-women-children-immigration-centers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Ed Martin, WCADAGPA (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

• Judge Xinis holds a hearing over whether certain discovery in the Abrego Garcia case is subject to state secrets and deliberative process privilege.
• Trump administration lawyers submitted documents under seal to Judge Boasberg they say show the US "does not have constructive custody over" El Salvador CECOT detainees.
• Ed Martin reveals that he’s under investigation by the ethics office that handles attorney discipline in Washington, and reveals he’s working with January 6th defendants in his role as the Weaponization Czar.
• Tulsi Gabbard has fired the intelligence officials that developed the assessment that tren de aragua is not a proxy of the Venezuelan government.
• Plus listener questions…

Interview: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unjustified/id1317481380?i=1000708876175

Dubious Privilege (feat. Skye Perryman) (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast )

There are now multiple cases challenging the administration’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation; including a hearing by Judge Boasberg for an amended complaint filed on behalf of all the detainees in El Salvador.

Judge Xinis has had to pause the discovery in the Abrego Garcia case to contemplate the Trump Administration’s invocation of the state secrets and deliberative process privilege.

Justice Department lawyers continue to lose credibility before judges who are upset by their shoddy work.

President Trump pulls the nomination of Ed Martin for Us Attorney in the District of Columbia and appoints Fox anchor Jeanine Pirro as interim US Attorney.

Plus listener questions…
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-f87v7-255752f9

After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap - The Washington Post

The bipartisan border bill that Republican lawmakers opposed last weekwould have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding for ICE enforcement operations. The bill's demise has led ICE officials to begin circulating an internal proposal to save money by releasing thousands of detainees and cutting detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000 — the opposite of the enforcement increases Republicans say they want...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/02/14/immigration-customs-enforcement-budget-deficit-republicans/