‘Chaos and cruelty’: the kids trapped in Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign

Children are being detained in record numbers, sometimes alone and where lawyers and family cannot find them…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/children-trump-immigration-enforcement-campaign

 

ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back

The total denial of contact visits is an extreme restriction for any prison or detention site where people are locked up long-term, particularly a facility holding people accused of immigration violations. Prisons across the US housing people convicted of serious criminal offenses typically operate visitation rooms where families can sit at tables, only temporarily barring contact visits when there are safety concerns. 

The harsh policy, advocates say, is part of the Trump administration’s strategy of placing more and more people in crowded facilities while their cases drag on, subjecting them to prison-like conditions and restricting their connections to the outside – all which can increase pressure to accept deportations...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/ice-california-detention-contact-visits

 

Revealed: US attorneys rally to free children held in immigration custody

Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/attorneys-rally-children-immigration-custody 

 

Taxpayer Dollars Going Into Trump Deals

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JuJyjLVs-7I

 

What allowed the building of concentration camps? #historyshorts

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nc0Yx59l_Ck 

 

As a son of immigrants, I’m outraged by the Trump administration’s cruel immigration policies

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/frw_GzxzhtY

 

Kurdish hunger striker says ICE force-feeding ‘mentally broke me’

Choli suffered injuries and medical complications, including swollen sinuses, damage to his esophagus and stomach problems, court records show. 

“That is just not medical care, that is torture,” Dr Chanelle Diaz, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University’s medical center, told the Guardian. Diaz has reviewed cases of other detained immigrants subjected to force-feeding and advocated for their release...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/kurdish-hunger-striker-ice-force-feeding

‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention

“It is unethical to force treatment on someone who is saying, ‘don’t do this to me’,” said Wynia. “People who are on hunger strike do not want to die, they are not suicidal. They are using the only tool available to them to protest the circumstances of their confinement.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/trump-dhs-hunger-strikes-force-feeding-ice-detention 

 

California’s largest ICE facility neglected detainees’ medical needs, monitor finds

Court-appointed investigator finds California City facility failed to comply with judge’s order to provide adequate healthcare…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/california-ice-detention-healthcare-violation 

Republicans are using taxpayer dollars to let private detention contractors profit

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e24RdG7AkOo

 

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

 

Trump loyalist Jim Jordan linked to group that received ‘dark money’ from ICE detention contractor

The report found that the American Liberty Foundation, a political action committee (Pac) tied to Jordan, last year received $250,000 in “dark money” payments from Geo Group, the Florida-headquartered company that runs dozens of detention centers on behalf of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the country...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/jim-jordan-super-pac-ice-donation

 

Noem DHS Scheme EXPOSED, More Than a Billion Dollars

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ZF7b2asXBY

DHS pauses new immigrant warehouse purchases as all Noem-era contracts are reviewed | PBS News

The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the purchase of new warehouses intended to house immigrants as it scrutinizes all contracts signed under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to a senior Homeland Security official…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/dhs-pauses-new-immigrant-warehouse-purchases-as-all-noem-era-contracts-are-reviewed

 

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures

Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/ice-deaths-trump-administration

 

How is the Trump admin “getting away” with holding children in ICE detention

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L1HOiVotwAw

 

Supreme Court deals setback to ICE detention contractor in fight over detainee work - POLITICO

The civil lawsuit alleges that the arrangement violated a federal law prohibiting forced labor and, because the policies saved labor costs for GEO, ran afoul of a Colorado common-law prohibition on unjust enrichment…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/supreme-court-ruling-ice-detention-contractor-00797951 

 

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 US to provide California ICE detainees with medical care, attorneys and blankets

The US government must provide detainees at a California immigration detention center with adequate medical care, access to attorneys, and "temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets", a federal judge has ruled… 

 Residents at the facility had previously described the center as a "torture chamber" and "hell on earth" in interviews with the Guardian…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/california-ice-detainees-medical-care-attorneys-blankets

 

Jeffries slams Republican DHS offer as ‘woefully inadequate’ - Live Updates - POLITICO

Jeffries said the Republican offer did not satisfactorily address a need for judicial warrants, detention center standards, independent investigations and excessive-force standards. Asked about whether the Trump administration would support a prohibition on masks for federal agents, Jeffries said, "That's an open question."…

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/10/congress/jeffries-slams-republican-dhs-offer-as-woefully-inadequate-00773372