Latest News About Immigration Detention

Updated 2026-04-17 19:07

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This week in immigration detention – detention deaths, targeting ...

Washington, DC — This week, the Trump administration’s cruel, multi-layered immigration detention expansion plan moved full steam ahead with the news of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention contract approvals in Ohio, New Jersey, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. This comes the same week the administration launched a concerted effort to target unaccompanied children, and a week after the tragic death of Maksym Chernayak, 44, who died in ICE custody on February 20 in Florida.

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Reflections on a week of disappointing detention news

In this blog SDV director, Kate Alexander, considers the latest Home Office detention statistics in the light of an extremely disappointing announcement about the expansion of the detention estate The latest detention statistics from the Home office, out yesterday, tell a familiar story. In the

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