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Immigration Jails Have Had Hundreds Of Hunger Strikes

August 8, 2026 Victoria Valenzuela, Truthout. , , ,
When Dilmer “Loba” Lovos Mendez learned about the protests inside the Dilley Detention Center in Texas, they were not surprised. While being held for two years in California immigration jails from 2024 to 2026, Lovos Mendez had seen firsthand how common such organized acts of resistance actually are, and was themself directly involved with three protest actions during that time. During two hunger strikes, one of which had up to 100 participants, as well as sit-ins that lasted two weeks in September 2025, Lovos Mendez worked with other people inside immigrant jails to protest medical neglect and terrible conditions including rotten food and undrinkable water.

Citizens Bank Ends Funding For ICE Prison Companies

July 26, 2026 Betsey Piette, Workers World. , , ,
Following months of intense public pressure, Citizens Bank announced on July 17 that it would end its financing of immigration detention centers operated by CoreCivic and GEO Group. While the bank claims its decision was due to the federal government’s plans to purchase many of those companies’ facilities, it is more likely that the withdrawal of millions of dollars by protesting groups over the past few months was the key factor.  After demonstrating at the bank’s annual shareholders’ meeting in April in Providence, Rhode Island, American Federation of Teachers-Rhode Island Federation of Teachers (AFT-RIFT) Local 6516, which represents 2,000 working graduate and undergraduate students at Brown University, pulled out $500,000 in deposits from the bank. 

An Urgent Blueprint For ‘How To Close A Camp’

July 22, 2026 Britta Shoot, Scheer Post. , , ,
Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, dozens of immigrants have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Between January and July 6 this year, at least 21 individuals have died in federal custody. In January, during ICE’s siege in Minneapolis, agents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed community defenders Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two of at least 11 individuals killed by DHS agents since the start of Trump’s second term. While there was a brief decline in ICE activity after the high-profile Minneapolis murders, the ICE’s surge of violence has mostly continued unabated. This includes the July 7 killing in Texas of 52-year-old father of three, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and the July 12 killing in Maine of 26-year-old father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero.

Community Activism Forced Plans For ICE Warehouses To Be Abandoned

July 14, 2026 Brian Dolinar, Truthout. , , ,
In a change of course, the Trump administration’s plans to detain tens of thousands of immigrants in Amazon-style warehouses have been massively scaled back. As Truthout reported earlier this year, local communities mobilized swiftly to stop these massive detention sites, some capable of holding up to 10,000 people with no infrastructure to manage the waste and water needs. In January 2026, an internal memo was leaked revealing a list of some two dozen places where the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had purchased or was seeking to buy large warehouses to hold immigrant detainees.

Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center

July 13, 2026 Alexis Sterling, Nation of Change. , , ,
A new investigation into Camp East Montana, the largest immigration detention facility in the United States, is bringing renewed scrutiny to a sprawling tent complex on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, where people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have reported medical neglect, abuse, isolation, disease outbreaks, and barriers to legal help. The New Yorker reported Monday that the Trump administration chose Fort Bliss last summer as the site of a 5,000-bed detention center built to support its mass deportation agenda. The facility, called Camp East Montana, opened in August 2025 after an expedited federal contracting process and quickly became a central piece of the administration’s expanded detention system.

ICE Says 51 People Died In Custody Under Trump

June 24, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. , , ,
Mamuka Artmeladze, a 43-year-old Georgian national, was found dead on June 4, 2026, in federal immigration custody. Though his name did not appear in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) online death records by the time this article was published, Artmeladze was reported as the 50th person to die in ICE custody since President Donald Trump returned to office. One of two recent deaths at a notorious immigration prison in Louisiana, Artmeladze’s death is one of the latest signs that the president’s mass deportation campaign has predictably created a human rights crisis inside a sprawling system of immigration jails and camps.

California Town Lets Private ICE Detention Centers Police Themselves

June 16, 2026 Robin Urevich, Scheer Post. , , , , ,
Two years ago, immigration attorney Mario Valenzuela visited a client at the Golden State Annex, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center operated by the private prison giant The GEO Group Inc. in the small agricultural town of McFarland in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Valenzuela’s client had a black eye and bruises on his body, he said. The client told Valenzuela that he’d been surrounded and beaten by seven or eight fellow detainees in the detention center’s recreation yard and was taken to a hospital emergency room. His client, who didn’t authorize his attorney to give his name, wanted to report the assault to the police, Valenzuela said.

Lawyers Build New Infrastructure To Fight Deportation Machine

June 14, 2026 Marianne Dhenin, Truthout. , , , ,
Coalitions of attorneys, rights groups, and other organizations are developing a powerful new infrastructure to challenge the Trump administration’s mass deportation machine. Several so-called habeas projects have been created in states or regions across the country in recent months to connect noncitizens facing unlawful detention with pro bono attorneys who can file habeas corpus petitions on their behalf in federal court. “When it became clear that the administration had made it its priority to prevent people from accessing bond and immigration courts and, really the mission of the administration seems to be to keep people in detention for as long as possible, we saw a need to help facilitate access to the federal courts,” Christy Rodriguez.

Fight To Close Delaney Hall Has Reignited The Movement Against ICE

June 5, 2026 Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. , , ,
A new front has opened up in the nationwide resistance to Trump’s war on immigrants… New Jersey. Buried deep in the industrial arteries of Newark — an area referred to by residents as the “Chemical Corridor” where the air smells of sewage and toxic waste — is the one-year-old ICE detention center, Delaney Hall. Community organizations have been fighting to close Delaney Hall since before it even opened. In the last week of May, that fight escalated when around 300 immigrants imprisoned inside the detention center launched a hunger and labor strike to demand their freedom.

ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable

May 30, 2026 Kelly Hayes, Truthout. , , ,
“The immigration camp, it really depends on a lot of local infrastructure. It is not this untouchable federal abstraction. It is up to us, neighbors, community members, and we have the actual power to shut them down,” says journalist John Washington. In this episode of Movement Memos, Washington joins host Kelly Hayes to discuss his book How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention, the rapid expansion of ICE detention, and how communities can fight camps before and after they open.

Delaney Hall ICE Detainees Take Aim At GEO Group’s Bottom Line

May 29, 2026 Whitney Curry Wimbish, American Prospect. , , , ,
GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, runs on immigrant labor. Detainees cook, clean, and repair the facility for as little as $1 a day and sometimes for nothing at all. So when 300 migrants imprisoned in Delaney Hall went on a hunger and labor strike last Friday over conditions they likened to physical and mental torture, they were taking aim at GEO Group’s bottom line. Executives at the for-profit public corporation can keep their overhead low and their profits high by hiring as few employees as possible and shifting essential jobs to people who have no choice but to do them for free.

When Do ‘Detention Centers’ Become ‘Concentration Camps’?

May 6, 2026 Katie Moore, People's World. , , , ,
Are U.S. immigration agents sending migrants and asylum seekers to “detention centers” or “internment camps”? Are they being held in “processing centers” or “concentration camps”? It depends on who you talk to. Sometimes the U.S. government uses bureaucratic and benign terms like “detention centers,” which immigrant advocates argue minimize often harsh conditions. At other times, they use sensational nicknames like the “Speedway Slammer” that suggest their purpose is for punishment. Journalist Andrea Pitzer said in a recent interview with The Marshall Project that each tone serves a purpose for a different audience.

Immigrants Group Launches Map To Track US Detention Centers

March 14, 2026 Alexandra Martinez, Scheer Post. , , ,
A national immigrant advocacy group is launching an interactive map designed to help families locate detained loved ones, find legal and community resources, and better understand the expanding U.S. immigration detention system. The map, created by Freedom for Immigrants, launched March 12 and compiles information about immigration detention facilities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field offices, resource providers, and companies that profit from immigration detention. Advocates say the project aims to make information about immigration detention— which is often difficult to access—available in one place for people most directly impacted by the system.

Mass Detention Facility Expansion In The US And The Fight Back

February 23, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , ,
While there has been an ongoing expansion of immigrant detention centers in the United States for nearly two decades, the government recently allocated $38.3 billion to put that on hyperdrive in order to add the capacity to detain 92,000 more people. The government is purchasing warehouses in communities across the US and even considering using military bases. Clearing the FOG speaks with journalist Sam Carliner about the expansion, who is being detained, the appalling conditions in these prisons, who is profiting and how communities are organizing to stop what are essentially concentration camps.

Residents Mobilize To Stop 1,500 Bed ICE Detention Center

February 11, 2026 Hagerstown Rapid Response, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Maryland - On February 10, the Washington County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to support the Department of Homeland Security and ICE’s planned detention facility at 16220 Wright Road in Williamsport, just outside Hagerstown, Maryland. The vote took less than 30 minutes, but the consequences could last decades. And we were there. On January 28, county officials first made the public aware that DHS had purchased a massive, 825,000-square-foot warehouse in Washington County for approximately $102.4 million. Public reporting indicates the facility is believed to be intended as an ICE detention center capable of housing up to 1,500 detained immigrants.
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