17 December 2025

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

BID finds “shockingly low” levels of legal representation in immigration detention (EIN, Nov. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

Federal Court Blocks ICE’s Unlawful Detention of Immigrant Teens Turning 18 (American Immigration Council, Dec. 2025) [text]

ICE Detention Crosses Record 65,000, October Arrests Top Record 40,000, Biggest Growth Among People with No Criminal History (Austin Kocher Substack, Nov. 2025) [text]

Israel: UN Torture Committee Highlights Harmful Treatment of Detained Migrants and Refugees (Immigration Detention Monitor, Dec. 2025) [text]

Trump administration’s immigrant detention policy broadly rejected by federal judges (The Conversation, Dec. 2025) [text]

UN visit sparks renewed calls for Australia to overhaul immigration detention (UNSW, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

 By force of habit: How the use of force in immigration detention has lost sight of necessity and dignity (Independent Monitoring Board, Nov. 2025) [text via EIN]
- Focuses on the UK.

Externalisation and the Emergence of a Global Immigration Detention Gulag Archipelago: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (Global Detention Project, Dec. 2025) [text]

Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida (Amnesty International, Dec. 2025) [access]
- Focuses on the US.

Journal articles:

"The Accountability Deficit: When Immigration Detention Obstructs One's Day in Criminal Court," Columbia Law Review, vol. 125, no. 6 (2025) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Detained Migrant Children, Autonomy, and Positive Duties," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 39, no. 3 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Nauru.

"Extended Detention Without Due Process: Resolving a Circuit Split in Favor of Detained Noncitizen Migrants’ Due Process Rights," Dickinson Law Review, vol. 130, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Lessons Learned from Immigration Detention’s Past," Boston Univ. Law Review, vol. 105, no. 5 (Sept. 2025) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Removal Pending Visas: The Australian Parliament's Answer to the End of Indefinite Detention," Sydney Law Review, vol. 27 (2025) [full-text]

"Towards the Abolition of the Immigration Detention of Children in the United States," Univ. of San Francisco Law Review, vol. 59, no. 3 (2025) [full-text]

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