23 September 2025

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (United States)

Opportunity:

Discussion panel: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants, Washington, DC, 30 September 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

BIA Decision Strips Immigration Judges of Bond Authority, All but Guaranteeing Mandatory Detention for Undocumented Immigrants (Immigration Impact Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]
- See also related Politico article.

"Hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in immigrant detention, report finds," NBC News, 5 Aug. 2025 [text]

Litigation reveals details of Trump deal with El Salvador to imprison migrants (The Hill, Sept. 2025) [text]
- See also related Newsweek article.

*Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands (Just Security, Sept. 2025) [text]

"Trump Admin Says 70% of ICE Detainees Do Not Have Criminal Convictions," Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 [text]

*"Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear," The Guardian, 12 Sept. 2025 [text]

The U.S. Deportation Industrial Complex: Arrests and Detention by the Numbers (Just Security, Sept. 2025) [text]

"White House’s immigration blitz runs up against ICE bed capacity," Politico, 12 Sept. 2025 [text]

Publications & resources: 

The Abuse of Pregnant Women & Children in U.S. Immigration Detention (Office of Jon Ossoff, US Senate, July 2025) [text]

Detention Pregnancy Tracker (Women's Refugee Commission, Sept. 2025) [access]
- A "nationwide tool designed to collect real-time reports on pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women in US immigration detention." See also related blog post.

"From Border-Based to Status-Based Mandatory Detention," Fordham Urban Law Journal, vol. 53 (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

New Tool: DetentionReports.com Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities (Austin Kocher Substack, July 2025) [text]

"The Solitary Confinement Crisis in Immigration Detention," Nevada Law Journal, vol. 25 (2025) [full-text]

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