25 January 2026

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

United States

92% of ICE Detention Growth in FY 2026 Driven by Immigrants with No Criminal Convictions (Austin Kocher Substack, Jan. 2026) [text]

DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Prison Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data (CATO At Liberty Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many for Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit (Marshall Project, Dec. 2025) [text]
- See also related Time Magazine article.

ICE's Deadly December: Record-Setting Detained Population and Detention Deaths (Austin Kocher Substack, Dec. 2025) [text]
- See also related post on The Hill.

Motherhood under Surveillance: The Gendered Violence of ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2026) [text]

Rubio argues US cannot return Venezuelans despite court order (The Hill, Jan. 2026) [text]

Elsewhere

Australia: UN Experts Raise Serious Concerns Regarding Country’s Migrant Detention System (Immigration Detention Monitor, Jan. 2026) [text]

Immigration detention: A mental health crisis without borders (King's College London, Jan. 2026) [text]

*IOM Emergency Teams Support Migrants in Libya Following Discovery of Mass Grave and Underground Detention Sites (IOM, Jan. 2026) [text]

Thailand: Detention and Coerced Returns of Vietnamese Refugees and Asylum Seekers (Immigration Detention Monitor, Jan. 2026) [text]

*UPDATED

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