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ICE Is Violating Its Own Family Separation Policies: A Conversation with Zain Lakhani
2+ hour, 29+ min ago (1030+ words) ICE Is Violating Its Own Family Separation Policies: A Conversation with Zain Lakhani'austinkocher.substack.com ICE Is Violating Its Own Family Separation Policies: A Conversation with Zain Lakhani Yesterday I hosted Zain Lakhani from the Women's Refugee Commission for a…...
What a School District's Enrollment in ICE's 287(g) Program Reveals About the Messy Realities of Policy Diffusion
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (537+ words) Let's start with the conflicting statements about the basic question at the heart of this story: did a school district actually sign a 287(g) agreement. There are two key people to keep straight in the local district: District Superintendent Steven Cantrell…...
A Closer Look at ICE's Enormous People Warehouse Near Hagerstown, Maryland
3+ week, 21+ hour ago (357+ words) I drove out to the site of one of the most controversial new ICE facilities in the country this afternoon, an 825,000 square foot warehouse built with the hopes of being used or sold to a logistics company like Amazon but…...
All Immigration Enforcement Is Local: A City-Wide Conversation about Immigration Law, Policy, and Data in St. Louis
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (323+ words) Here's a rundown of what the week looks like. Additional events may still be added, so check the Ashrei Foundation events page for the latest schedule. Thursday, March 5 | 2:003:30 PM Saint Louis University, Busch Student Center Room 251B Co-hosted with the SLU…...
Investigating ICE's Mass Detention System: A Conversation with Doug MacMillan
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (97+ words) Yesterday I sat down with Doug MacMillan from The Washington Post for a conversation about his reporting on ICE detention. It was one of the most illuminating conversations I've had in a while, and I'm grateful Doug made time for…...
Behind the National Dip, Many ICE Detention Facilities Across the Country Are Surging
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (774+ words) The latest ICE data showed a slight decline in the total national detained population, from a record 70,766 on January 24 to 68,289 on February 7. As I discussed in my previous post, that drop may reflect a combination of legal challenges and routine…...
Five New Research Reports on Immigration Enforcement You Should Read
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (991+ words) Thanks to everyone named and unnamed in these reports for the massive aggregation of intellectual labor that went into even just these five pieces. And if you know of a report that has come out recently that you think more…...
Investigating ICE's Mass Detention System: A Conversation with Doug MacMillan of The Washington Post
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (331+ words) Doug's reporting matters because it refuses to let this system operate in the shadows. While ICE detention has expanded to record levels'now holding more than 70,000 people'the conditions inside these facilities, the corporate profits driving expansion, and the deaths occurring behind…...
The Best Source of ICE Detention Data Just Got Better: "Detention Reports" Now Includes Map, New Graph, & Facility Contracts
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (759+ words) For more background on the project, see our initial announcement and first update explaining the site's features and methodology. Feature #1: Interactive National Map. Visualize all 237 detention facilities across the country Feature #2: Facility Comparison Scatter Plots. See where each facility fits…...
Show Your Work: The Math Behind My Claim that 92% of ICE's Detention Growth Comes from People with No Criminal Convictions
2+ mon, 3+ hour ago (369+ words) My goal for the analysis was to evaluate what changed in ICE's detention numbers during the first quarter of FY 2026 (i.e., from October 1 to December 31). The closest we get in ICE's spreadsheets is September 21, 2025 and January 7, 2026close enough for our purposes. First,…...