ICE detentions highest since pandemic

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Statistics

Most detained individuals are transfers from CBP following arrests at the border. ICE is legally obligated to detain some of these people, ...

ICE Detention Center Hugely Affected by COVID-19

One of the immigration detention centers located in Eloy, Arizona, reports the highest number of Coronavirus cases and has drawn the attention ...

Increase in Indefinite ICE Detention Without Foreseeable Removal ...

In early December, El Paso Service Processing Center had the largest current COVID-19 outbreak of any ICE facility in the nation, with 47 ...

Chaos Reigns at ICE Detention Centers Amid Fear That ...

With the coronavirus infection rate exploding across the country, immigration advocates worry that ICE won't be able to contain the crisis ...

ICE Is Detaining More Immigrants. Covid Is Putting Them in Danger.

The Biden administration is placing millions of incarcerated people—including over 20,000 who are in ICE detention—at risk of a Covid-19 illness ...

'You Can Either Be A Survivor Or Die': COVID-19 Cases Surge In ...

More than 2,700 detainees nationwide have tested positive, according to ICE data, and the Eloy detention facility is among the hardest hit by ...

In Their Own Words: Voices from ICE Detention During COVID

Those responsible for the safety and well-being of detained immigrants, notably Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the medical providers it contracts ...

Covid infections surge in immigration detention facilities

The number of cumulative infections in ICE detention has risen from 10,000 in March 2021 to 38,000 this week. Eleven people have died, most ...

Virus cases are surging at crowded immigration detention centers in ...

With more migrants being detained at the borders, centers run by ICE are seeing a rise in infections. Few detainees are vaccinated.

Thousands of ICE detainees at high risk amid coronavirus pandemic

More than 40,000 people are held in immigration detention facilities around the US, mainly on the grounds that they failed to follow procedure ...

COVID-19 pandemic in US immigration detention - Wikipedia

ICE and the Trump administration have been heavily criticized for its lack of transparency during the COVID-19 pandemic, after it banned oversight tours by U.S. ...

ICE detention facilities were already a human rights emergency ...

This ban would have closed multiple ICE facilities in California last year as COVID began to spread. Trump administration officials at DHS ...

But there are concerns that individuals who contracted COVID-19 in detention but died after being released would not get counted in ICE's data.

vera-institute/ice-detention-covid: Data on confirmed ... - GitHub

On March 24, 2020, ICE launched a webpage that compiles information about COVID-19 in detention facilities, including the reported numbers of confirmed COVID-19 ...

Amid pandemic, sharply increased U.S. detention times put migrants ...

... most have since recovered and returned to the center, ICE said. The agency said it provides masks to staff and detainees at Adelanto ...

The number of people in ICE detention is the highest it's been since ...

The last time the number of detainees was this high was in early 2020 — before the Trump administration enacted pandemic-era border ...

Immigrants lacked soap as Covid spread at Ice detention centers ...

Ice, which oversees immigration detention, created unacceptable health risks and violated constitutional and human rights during the pandemic, ...

Immigration Detention 101

Since 2003 at least 230 people have died in ICE custody, including 21 deaths in FY 2020, ICE's highest death toll in 15 years. ICE contracts with both local ...

Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention

Since January 1, 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reported that 68 people have died in its custody.

Unchecked Growth: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration ...

In July, more than 90 percent of the average 30000 people held daily in ICE detention were housed in private facilities, as private ...