Immigration

Half the population of Doral, Florida, is from Venezuela. Why haven’t its leaders rescinded their deal with ICE?

Protesters say they are “throwing sand in the gears” of the agency’s deportation and abduction machine.

More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.

As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall.

The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state and the District of Columbia. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.

The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from Palantir, the private prison industry, and other companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Activists say ending local and state cooperation with ICE is a key way to obstruct Trump’s mass deportation machine.

ICE raids and cutbacks to personal care services are leaving seniors and disabled adults scrambling for in-home aid.

The infringement of Muslims’ religious rights has intensified in ICE jails under Trump 2.0, civil rights advocates say.

People across the political spectrum are realizing these federal detention warehouses will harm their communities.

Investors on CoreCivic and GEO Group’s quarterly earnings calls expressed frustration that ICE’s record immigration detention numbers aren’t high enough.

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Immigrant rights activists and elected officials are calling to shut down Camp East Montana.

At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025, and six more have already died in ICE custody this year.

Police face allegations of violating laws meant to protect immigrants from DC to Oregon to Colorado and beyond.

FCI Dublin was shut down in 2024 after revelations of abuse against prisoners. Residents want it to stay closed.

Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.

Local communities resist ICE by reaching inside jails and building networks of support.

CEO tells investors the Trump administration represents an “unprecedented opportunity.”

Madison Sheahan’s Wildlife and Fisheries officers sent unhoused people to a New Orleans warehouse. What does that mean for the future?

Jaeson Jones, a former DPS captain-turned-MAGA influencer, is helping lay the groundwork for mass deportations and conflict with Mexico.

A second Trump term is not only more dangerous for undocumented people and asylum seekers than life under a Democratic president. It’s poised to be catastrophic.

The Appeal found a systemic culture of abuse and mismanagement at the Winn Correctional Center, an ICE jail in Louisiana. Biden’s administration has kept people detained there against the wishes of government investigators and multiple U.S. senators.

Detainees at New Mexico’s Torrance County Detention Facility recently launched a hunger strike, motivated in part by the August death of a 23-year-old asylum seeker in custody.

Patrice Andrews once promised she’d never work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But in 2018, she directly ordered the arrest of immigration activists during an ICE deportation.

President-elect Biden has a tough road ahead in reversing the Trump administration’s damage to the immigration system. Advocates say they’ll make sure he fulfills his promises.

With aggressive legal maneuvering, the incoming head of the Justice Department can reverse some of Trump’s most lasting harm and take steps toward a more humane immigration system.

“To be in the same place where I was three years ago is very frustrating,” said one teen who, like others, has seen her DACA application rejected despite a ruling in June against the Trump administration’s cancellation of the program.

Workers report facing a difficult choice between earning a living and feeling safe and healthy at their job.

The ruling thwarts the administration’s attempt to deport nearly 700,000 immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis are both provoked by natural phenomena, the dangers they present are just as political as the crisis of police violence.

Farmworker and labor advocates say these workers are among the most exploited in the country.

Advocates say states aren’t doing enough to close the gaps in the federal stimulus bill.

People incarcerated in the Otay Mesa Detention Center decry crowded units and substandard medical care as COVID-19 tears through the facility.

Using language evoking pernicious stereotypes about immigration and crime, the Court’s conservative majority clears the way for the Trump administration to deport legal permanent residents for crimes committed long ago.

A woman detained by ICE was sick with COVID-19 for days before being removed from a 50-person jail dorm in York County, Pennsylvania, according to women housed with her.

The Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of 650,000 so-called Dreamers across the country. Lawyers say terminating protections for them during a pandemic would be ‘catastrophic.’