Published by USA Today on November 12, 2020.
A policy-by-policy overview of what it would take for the Biden administration to undo the Trump administration’s hardline border and migration policies.
Published by The Arizona Republic on October 28, 2020.
ICE deported back to Guatemala hundreds of people who tested positive for COVID-19.
A 14-month investigation by House committee staff finds poor conditions and urgent health risks for migrants in ICE’s network of privatized detention centers. (Link at oversight.house.gov)
Published by the House Committee on Homeland Security on September 21, 2020.
A year-long study based on site visits to eight ICE detention centers finds deficient medical care, abuse of solitary confinement, challenges accessing legal services, and unsanitary conditions. (Link at homeland.house.gov)
Published by Project South on September 14, 2020.
A whistleblower complaint about health risks—possibly including non-consensual surgeries on women—and unsafe work practices at the Irwin County ICE detention facility in Georgia.
Published by Reveal on September 10, 2020.
ICE repeatedly rebuffed New Mexico state health officials’ offers to help control a worsening outbreak of COVID-19 at its Otero County Processing Center.
Published by CNN on September 3, 2020.
Details ICE’s practice of holding migrant families and children under contractors’ custody in border-town hotels before expelling them under measures put in place due to COVID-19.
Published by the Washington Office on Latin America on July 27, 2020.
An overview of key measures in the House of Representatives’ version of the 2021 DHS appropriation, including cutting border wall spending, defunding “Remain in Mexico,” reducing ICE detention, and others.
Caption: “ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removes aliens from the U.S. who are subject to a final order of removal or have been granted voluntary departure.”
Published by The New York Times and the Marshall Project on July 10, 2020.
“Reveals how unsafe conditions and scattershot testing helped turn ICE into a domestic and global spreader of the virus—and how pressure from the Trump administration led countries to take in sick deportees.”
Published by NBC News on July 8, 2020.
ICE’s privately run detention center at Eloy, Arizona has seen nearly half of its employees test positive for COVID-19.
Published by Witness at the Border on May 29, 2020.
“This report will quantify, in stark terms, the likely transmission of COVID through ICE Air flights shuffling detainees between detention centers.”
Published by Amnesty International on May 21, 2020.
A report on ICE’s new practice, during the COVID-19 pandemic, of giving migrants in family detention the choice of either separating from their children or staying together in indefinite detention.
Published by the Immigration Justice Campaign on May 7, 2020.
An oversight complaint filed with the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Office of the Inspector General highlighting ICE’s failure to protect those in its custody during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published by Witness at the Border on May 7, 2020.
An analysis of ICE deportation flights and the certainty that they are spreading COVID-19.
Published by Politico on May 5, 2020.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ICE continues to transfer migrants across its network of detention centers, spurring concerns in small towns like Natchez, Mississippi and Lumpkin, Georgia.
Guidelines for how to safely and responsibly release detainees from ICE custody during the COVID-19 pandemic.