DHS Secretary Mayorkas told ICE employees that border wall construction may restart to plug gaps in the current barrier.
Tag: ICE
February 26, 2021
ICE officials told immigration activists that they will be ending long-term detention at two Texas facilities, Dilley and Karnes City. Migrants will be held just long enough to administer Covid tests and arrange transportation but will no longer be held to wait for asylum screenings or court dates.
February 9, 2021
The first few weeks of the Biden administration have seen an uptick in ICE’s deportations of Haitian migrants, with dozens of asylum seekers being dropped off in Mexico without processing or credible fear interviews. Others, including children and infants, are being sent back to Haiti, which is experiencing mounting political violence due to U.S-backed president Jovenel Moïse attempting to extend his term.
Biden might need years to reverse Trump’s immigration policies on DACA, asylum, family separation, ICE raids, private detention and more

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.
‘They were sending the virus’: Guatemala reels after U.S. deports hundreds of deportees with COVID-19

Published by The Arizona Republic on October 28, 2020.
ICE deported back to Guatemala hundreds of people who tested positive for COVID-19.
The Trump Administration’s Mistreatment of Detained Immigrants: Deaths and Deficient Medical Care by For-Profit Detention Contractors

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)
July 15, 2020
- The Committee on Homeland Security holds a hearing on “Children in CBP Custody: Examining Deaths, Medical Care Procedures, and Improper Spending.”
ICE Detention Facilities: Failing to Meet Basic Standards of Care

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)
Lack of Medical Care, Unsafe Work Practices, and Absence of Adequate Protection Against COVID-19 for Detained Immigrants and Employees Alike at the Irwin County Detention Center

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.
‘We sent 500 tests. They don’t answer calls’: Inside ICE’s coronavirus testing disaster

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.
The US detained hundreds of migrant children in hotels as the pandemic flared

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.
7 Humane, Effective Border and Migration Measures in the House’s 2021 Homeland Security Appropriation

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.
July 14, 2020


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.”
Hearing: Oversight of ICE Detention Facilities: Examining ICE Contractors’ Response to COVID-19
How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus
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.”
Arizona ICE detention center employees test positive for virus
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.
ICE Air: 1,677 Flights While Covid-19 Rages (Jan-April 2020)

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.”
Family Separation 2.0: “You aren’t going to separate me from my only child.”

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.
Individuals in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Custody Face Grave Risk of Death and Harm During COVID-19 Pandemic

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.
ICE Air Deportations: Has COVID-19 Changed Anything?

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.