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Family Detention: What You Need to Know About Its Past, Present, and Future
Family detention ended after years of lawsuits, medical warnings, and public outrage. Now, it’s back—despite clear evidence that it’s harmful, costly…
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Your Introduction to Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation Case and the Legal Battle Ahead
This post focuses on the fundamentals of Mahmoud Khalil’s case, including the core legal and ethical questions, why attorneys are already calling it…
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Immigration Data Literacy Skills to Help You Survive a New Wave of ICE Confusion
In this issue: ICE's latest detention data contains errors, growth of non-criminal detainees continues, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's inadequate…
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ICE's Latest Detention Data Shows Growth of Immigrants Targeted With No Criminal Histories – Exactly as Predicted
ICE published new detention data today that reflects the outcomes of ICE's recent "enforcement surge." Let's take a closer look.
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The Migrant Disappearance Protocols: Trump Sends Immigrants to "Legal Black Hole" at Guantánamo Bay
Guantánamo Bay isn’t where people go when they break the law; Guantánamo Bay is where the presidents goes when they want to break the law.
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First Look: ICE's Detained Population Declines Under Trump
ICE published its first detention data of the Trump administration. Let's see how it compares to recent numbers under Biden.
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Will Trump's Immigration Enforcement Policies Target Dangerous Criminals? - A Close Look at the Data
ICE represents its enforcement surge as targeting dangerous criminals, but data tells a different story. Why non-criminals will make up the bulk of ICE…
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Immigrant Detention by the Numbers: A Baseline for Evaluating ICE's Ramped-Up Enforcement Efforts
ICE latest detention data is the last look at numbers from the Biden administration and a baseline for the Trump administration. Plus: listen to my…
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Behind the Lens: A Conversation with Greg Constantine
Listen now | Photographer Greg Constantine joined me to discuss what it means to make immigrant detention visible while preserving the humanity of those…
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Immigrant Detention in Focus: The Unconventional Photography of Greg Constantine
Greg Constantine's "Seven Doors" project captures the lives and stories behind immigrant detention in the United States and around the world through…
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ICE Consistently Detains About 40,000 Immigrants in Civil Detention
TRAC released the latest ICE data on immigrant detention yesterday, which showed that detention numbers continue to hover between 35,000 and 40,000.
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ICE Fails to Post Detention Data in Over a Month—Again
ICE detention numbers are growing rapidly. So why won't the agency release detention data to the public as required by law?
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