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Mauricio Posadas Andrade is detained at Port Isabel Detention Center, near Brownsville, Texas. He was separated from his son on June 12.

Immigration Detention

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ICE Data Reveals What Happened to 1,600 People Arrested During Chicago’s Blitz
Most of those arrested were swiftly shuttled to a sprawling array of detention centers in 13 states, many with reports of troubling conditions.
Sheriff’s officers in brown uniforms stand in front of a white bus in motion in a parking lot.
A photo shows four people, including two children, walking toward a complex of tan, one-story buildings.
News December 17
ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
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A person wearing a blue medical gown is holding a breathing tube while lying on a hospital bed. A handcuff is locked onto a bar of the bed.
Closing Argument December 13
What’s So Scary About Treatable Conditions Behind Bars?
Medicines, procedures, and specialists can be scarce in prison, or people don’t get them until it’s too late.
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A combination of four photos shows, clockwise from left, a man facing away from the camera, with medium-toned skin and short dark hair, wearing a black tank top, and with tattoos on his right arm; a woman with medium-toned skin and long dark hair, wearing a peach-colored top, sitting at a table while writing on a card; a woman facing away from the camera with medium-length brown hair and sunglasses on her head; a white house with green trimming and shutters; and a person's hand over a griddle folding a tortilla.
Feature December 5
In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge
Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid — a meal, a bed, gas money — to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.
By and Julieta Martinelli
Uniformed, masked federal agents arrest a man in a parking lot.
Analysis December 4
Why New Orleans Became Trump’s Newest Immigration Target
Recent legal changes, a Trump-friendly governor and a large immigration detention infrastructure could make the New Orleans crackdown easier for the administration.
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A man in a purple shirt has his hands cuffed behind his back while facing an open car door. Four federal officers, wearing camouflage uniforms, vests, and helmets, stand around the man.
Closing Argument November 15
ICE Raids Kept On During the Shutdown, But the Detention Data Stayed Hidden
More than seven weeks have passed since the last comprehensive release of detention and deportation numbers.
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A photo of a Latina woman in her 60s with a medium skin tone and short hair sitting at a desk with a microphone. The woman is wearing a blazer and blouse while holding a stack of papers, and is looking up and to the side.
Q&A October 29
‘To Scare People to Death’: Former ICE Director Reviews Trump’s Immigration Tactics
“It has never been done in this way before,” said Sarah Saldaña, who led ICE when Obama was nicknamed the “Deporter-in-Chief.”
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A woman, wearing a black and white plaid jacket, kneels in between a row of blue chairs. Three signs of Bible verses translated into Spanish hang on the wall.
Closing Argument September 27
In ICE Detention, Rising Deaths and Neglect: ‘They Wouldn’t Really Do Anything’
Recent incidents include a man who died awaiting surgery in Georgia and a woman’s miscarriage in California. Meanwhile, suicide attempts are rising.
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A side profile of a woman sitting on a bed, in a dark room with a black-blue slate background. She is singing, as tears flow down her left cheek and as the flow descends down her left shoulder, it begins to widen into a wider flow. In the flow are pictured memories of her hugging her children.
Feature September 16
‘Unbearable’: How ICE Is Locking More Immigrants in Solitary Under Trump
A mother of three said she hallucinated after weeks in an ICE segregation cell in Louisiana. She’s one of thousands now facing the psychological toll of isolation.
By , The Marshall Project, and Patricia Clarembaux, Univision Noticias
A person wearing a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) cap has fabric wrapped around their face and is seen through the window of an open vehicle door at a checkpoint. To their left stands someone wearing a head covering, and to their right stands another person wearing a head covering. Someone else stands behind the person with the HSI cap.
Analysis September 12
A New Front in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown: ICE Checkpoints Far From the Border
Checkpoints have long run near the southern border, but their recent use in other parts of the country has ignited strong responses.
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