Detention Center

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

April 12, 2026 Renee Feltz, Truthout. Resist! Alligator Alcatraz, Detention Center, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Legal System

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. Resist! Community Defense, Detention Center, ICE, Michigan

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. Resist! Children, Detention Center, Immigrants, Texas

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. Resist! Detention Center, Kidnapping, Lawfare, Nicolas Maduro, Prisoner rights

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. Resist! Detention Center, Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Solidarity, Washington, Washington State

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 Resist! Detention Center, Human Rights, ICE, New York City (NYC)

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. Educate! Detention Center, ICE detention, Immigration, mass deportations, Texas, Trump Administration

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. Resist! Detention Center, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Labor Movement, Unions, Washington State

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.

Unions Rise For Immigrant Rights At Tacoma ICE Detention Center

May 29, 2025 Aife Pasquale, Fight Back! News. Resist! Detention Center, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Tacoma, Unions, Washington State

Tacoma, WA – On May 23, labor unions and Filipino community groups rallied with a unified message: “Free them all and shut it down!” As the Trump administration continues escalating attacks against immigrant communities, the working class is drawing closer together to defend itself and fight back. The coalition is demanding the immediate release of a Filipino union member known lovingly as “Kuya Max.” Maximo Londonio immigrated to the U.S. as a 12-year-old boy and is now 42. He was detained at the Sea-Tac airport on his way back home to Olympia from a family trip to the Philippines.

Trump To Order Gitmo Prepared As Offshore Prison For Migrants

January 30, 2025 Eloise Goldsmith, Common Dreams. Educate! Detention Center, Donald Trump, Guantanamo Bay, Migrants

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will sign an executive order instructing the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to prepare the U.S. naval base on Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of migrants. "We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people," Trump said at the White House at a ceremony to sign the Laken Riley Act, an immigrant detention bill, into law. "Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. So we're going to send them out to Guantánamo," he said.

Biden Just Helped Overrule An ICE Detention Ban In New Jersey

August 30, 2023 Sam Carliner and Paul Ginesta, Left Voice. Resist! Core Civic, Detention Center, Immigrant Rights, Joe Biden, New Jersey (NJ)

Immigrant rights activists in New Jersey are facing a challenge. August 31 was supposed to be the day that the state’s last remaining Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center finally closed. Instead, CoreCivic — the private prison company that runs the center — sued to keep the center open, and President Biden publicly came out on CoreCivic’s side. On August 29, two days before CoreCivic’s contract was set to expire, a federal judge ruled to keep the center open. The immigrant rights movement has not taken this development passively. Leading up to the ruling, various organizations and activists in the state mobilized to defend our immigrant neighbors and our right to ban ICE detention centers.

Berks County Detention Center Is Shutting Down

December 2, 2022 Alan Nunez, Al Dia. Resist! Detention Center, Immigrants, Women, Youth

The Berks County Residential Center, a facility that has been the subject of much scrutiny and protests over its previous housing of migrant children and now migrant women, will be shutting down, according to an announcement from Berks County Officials issued on Wednesday, Nov. 30. County officials were informed by the federal government that it will be ending its contract on Jan. 31, 2023. The public relations officer for the county, Stephanie Weaver, issued a statement that management and staff had been made aware of the government’s decision to shut down the center. It was not specified if employees would lose their jobs or not. According to Weaver, they employ 60 people. Federal government officials have not responded to questions about the decision to close the facility.

Four People Arrested At Invesco’s Shareholders’ Meeting In Atlanta

May 13, 2022 FANG Collective, Uprise RI. Resist! Detention Center, Immigrant Rights, Investment, Rhode Island

Yesterday afternoon people interrupted and disrupted Invesco‘s annual shareholders’ meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Invesco responded by dragging them out of the meeting. A crowd rallied outside of the shareholders’ meeting calling for Invesco to end their investments in the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, Rhode Island. The protest ended with four people being arrested. The Wyatt has faced controversy and ongoing protests after signing a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2019, allowing the Wyatt to detain people on behalf of the agency. After this contract was signed, widespread community opposition led the board overseeing the Wyatt to cancel the agreement with ICE.

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