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Prairieland Defendant Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison

June 24, 2026 Matt Sledge, Black Agenda Report. , , , , ,
Fort Worth, Texas — Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was merely convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest. Giving him a long prison term would make a mockery of justice, his defense attorney, Christopher Weinbel, told U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday. “The punishment must fit the crimes — not the headlines, not the politics, not the fears that have been mongered about the case,” he said.

Three-Day March For Immigrant Rights Ends At Planned ICE Detention Site

June 24, 2026 Lin An, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Dublin, CA – On June 8, at around 5 p.m., over 100 participants of the three-day “Caminata for Immigrant Rights” arrived at the corner of Arnold Road and Gleason Drive, next to FCI Dublin, a closed federal women’s prison that ICE plans to reopen as an immigrant detention center. “This action shows just how united the Bay Area is against ICE. Across all three days, covering dozens of miles, we received only honks of support and cheers from folks. No one wants Trump’s ICE thugs here. Those who joined us, including families with young children, grandmothers, immigrants and allies from Santa Rosa to Napa to San Francisco and beyond, demonstrate how far people are willing to go to oppose new detention centers in the Bay,” said Danny Celaya from CSO Oakland.

Florida Shuts Down Alligator Alcatraz

June 23, 2026 Thomas Kennedy, Truthout. , , , , ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced last week that all persons detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail were transferred to other facilities, and that the site’s giant tents and cages had been emptied. The reason given to the public was the risk posed by Florida’s hurricane season, with the agency offering this statement: “As we enter hurricane season, ICE and the state of Florida have moved illegal aliens from the soft-sided facility. For the safety of the illegal alien detainees, we transferred them to other facilities.”

Loved Ones, Supporters Of Striking Immigrants Rally Around The Clock

May 30, 2026 Talia Jane, Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
More than 300 people detained inside Newark, New Jersey’s Delaney Hall detention center are on a work and hunger strike, demanding that Gov. Mikie Sherrill visit the facility and meet with them. For months, immigrants detained inside the facility have drawn attention to Delaney’s inhumane conditions. They officially launched their strike on May 22, 2026, calling for freedom for everyone detained in the facility and especially the immediate release of vulnerable people, including children, the elderly, and those with serious medical conditions.

Immigrants Held At ‘Inhumane’ ICE Facility Start Hunger Strike

May 21, 2026 Clara-Sophia Daly, Mission Local. , , , ,
Conditions at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the high desert of Southern California are so bad that at least 20 people detained there have declared a hunger strike.  “There are many people suffering here. This is the only way we have to raise our voice, this is a call to stop the suffering and respect our dignity as human beings,” read a statement written by the strikers that was read during an press conference held online Wednesday morning. It was put on by a coalition of advocacy groups.  The immigrants at the Adelanto ICE detention complex have not eaten since Tuesday, organizers said.

Oklahoma Organizers Share How They Halted An ICE Warehouse

April 26, 2026 Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Truthout. , , , ,
The recent move from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to convert empty or surplus warehouses into large-scale ICE detention centers has produced a new terrain of struggle in the fight against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A notable departure from ICE’s existing detention system, which largely relies on contracts with county sheriff’s departments and privately run prison companies, this initiative is expanding and consolidating the federal government’s capacity to cage immigrants. Proposed ICE warehouses are largely in areas near logistics hubs, many of which are in towns that voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Immigrant Detainees Held By ICE Launch Hunger Strike

April 23, 2026 Erick Diaz Veliz, Michigan Advance. , , ,
At the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, the biggest in the Midwest with 1,800 beds, several hundred detained immigrants started a hunger strike on Monday, refusing to eat or work, according to immigrant rights advocates and relatives of the detainees in Michigan. In a press release shared by the activist group No Detention Centers in Michigan, the hunger strike was held by male detainees “citing dangerous conditions, a lack of adequate food and medical care, and cruel legal obstacles that have kept many in captivity with no end in sight.”

Judge’s Order For ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ May Shape Legal Access At ICE Jails

April 12, 2026 Renee Feltz, Truthout. , , , ,
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started sending people to a new tent-based jail nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” deep in the Florida Everglades last July, it indicated a shift toward using quickly opened soft-sided structures and converted warehouses to hold thousands of people in chain-link fence cages with no access to a lawyer. “It was kind of a black box,” Paul Chavez, the director of litigation with the Florida-based Americans for Immigrant Justice, told Truthout. “Attorneys would drive out there to ask to see their clients and be turned away at the gate by armed guards.”

Romulus City Council Rejects ICE Detention Center Proposal

February 25, 2026 Kyle Thibodeau, Left Voice. , , ,
On February 23, over 1000 activists, students, teachers, and community members braved the intense cold to pack the city hall in Romulus, Michigan to protest the proposed construction of an ICE detention center in the city. Thanks to their efforts, the project has been rejected, at least for now. The protests were part of a wider effort to fight the further encroachment of ICE into the metro Detroit area. Last week it was announced that ICE would be expanding in Metro Detroit, opening a detention center in Romulus and administrative offices in Southfield. 

Immigrant Children Lead Uprising At Texas Detention Center

January 27, 2026 Chris Walker, Truthout. , , ,
An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,” according to an attorney who witnessed the event. The protest took place at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, which closed in 2024 but was reopened by the Trump administration this year to detain immigrant families. On Saturday, facility personnel abruptly ordered immigration attorneys who were present to leave, saying “an incident” had taken place.

Supporters Of President Maduro Protest Outside Metropolitan Detention Center

January 5, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Brooklyn, NY – In the early morning of January 4, over 200 people gathered across the street from the Metropolitan Detention Center, where the kidnapped President Maduro of Venezuela and his wife, Cilia Flores, were being held. The picket spanned over half a block as bundled-up protesters marched for hours in support of President Maduro and Venezuela. Chants rang through the crowd, such as, “Not another penny, not another dollar! We won’t pay for your death and slaughter!’ Several organizations spoke against the Trump administration’s illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president.

Hundreds Unite To Shut Down Northwest Detention Center

September 4, 2025 Jonathan Staub, Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Tacoma, WA – On September 1, the International Migrant’s Alliance – USA (IMA USA) and La Resistencia hosted a rally for solidarity with immigrants and to shut down the Northwest Detention Center. The All Out for Migrant Defense rally was attended by over 850 people. Many of the attendees traveled from Portland, Oregon as part of the closing event of the 2025 IMA USA and Tanggol Migrante Political Conference. This included a large caravan of over 50 cars and two school buses. The Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma has become the place for many organizations to unite to fight the United States’ immigration policy. Other organizations like International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) Seattle, Bayan Washington, and the Oregon Rising Coalition also attended.

Immigrants Detained For Days Without Beds, Showers, Medication In NYC

August 12, 2025 Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Truthout , , ,
Civil rights groups are suing the Trump administration for detaining immigrants in a Manhattan federal courthouse where they are deprived of beds, showers, sufficient food, hygiene products, and medication. “In recent months, New York City has, almost daily, seen masked ICE agents separate people from their families and confine them in crowded, inhumane conditions within a makeshift detention facility inside 26 Federal Plaza in the middle of Manhattan,” Harold Solis, co-legal director of Make the Road New York, said in a statement. Make the Road New York filed the suit, along with the ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU).

Trump To Open Country’s Largest Immigrant Detention Center

July 25, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. , , , , ,
The US Department of Defense has awarded a contract worth USD 1.26 billion to the Virginia-based company Acquisition Logistics LLC to build a sprawling short-term ICE detention center in the Fort Bliss army base in El Paso, Texas. The center is set to have a capacity of 5,000 detainees which would make it the largest immigrant detention center in the country. The facility, much like the newly-minted “Alligator Alcatraz”, will be composed entirely of tents and temporary structures, raising the alarm about potential conditions of detention in the scorching dry heat of western Texas.

Labor Defends Jailed Immigrants: Forklift Driver, Hospital Worker

May 31, 2025 Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes. , , , , ,
The Seattle-area labor movement is rallying in defense of immigrant members seized by the Trump regime. Forklift driver Maximo Londonio and his family were on their way home from vacation in the Philippines—where he and his wife had celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary—when he was pulled aside at the airport, held there for days, then taken to a for-profit jail. Londonio has a green card; he moved here from the Philippines when he was just a kid. His wife is a U.S. citizen; they have three daughters. And he’s a Machinist. “Quite a lot of people in the shop are upset,” said Local Lodge 695 President Richard Howard.
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