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Advocates gather outside the county building in McHenry County, Woodstock, Illinois, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.
Immigration
ICE contracts at local, regional level spark contentious debate
An inmate wearing an orange suit mops near blue plastic bags inside a detention center.
Migration
Immigrants, rights activists call on Biden to end private detention
Three men wearing orange prison suits fold their hands in their laps and wear blue shoes.
Immigration
ICE detainees go on hunger strike to press for COVID-19 protections
A detainee talks with an employee in an exam room in the medial unit during a media tour at Northwest ICE Processing Center
COVID-19
ICE gets sued to release immigrant detainees amid COVID-19 pandemic
An aerial view of a detention center
Refugees
Australia detained this family on a remote island — alone
Man sits behind large stack of papers, brown envelopes
Justice
When the government wrongly deports people, coming back to the US is almost impossible
Woman at podium wipes away tears, while man stands next to her
Immigration
Former detainees tell New Mexico legislators about abuses in immigration detention as county seeks to renew contracts
People stand on side of road in front of trees holding signs; one reads "Shut Down Berks"
Immigration
Despite losing its state child care license — and years of claims of abuses — an immigrant family detention center in Pennsylvania made room for more families
Newly arriving Jewish refugee from the Nazi Holocaust wave from the ship "S.S. Awarea" as it pulls into Haifa port on April 6, 1948.
Immigration
Deporting asylum-seekers without giving them a chance to make their case would violate US and international laws
Sign in front of center
Immigration
Why the Trump administration is asking the courts to remove safeguards for detaining migrant children
A mother is seen holding her child.
Immigration
Trump’s new order on families at the border raises even more questions about what happens next for child migrants
sepia toned image of young boy, with some damage to photo around edges
Immigration
For a child migrant, days feel like a lifetime when you’re imprisoned and alone
Young girl walking on lawn, holding teddy bears
Immigration
For this mother and daughter, separated a year ago at the southern border, Trump’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy isn’t new
Woman and man with baby in front of table decorated for child's birthday
Immigration
After deportation, a family from Wisconsin will start anew in Cambodia
Group, including priest, lined up on street with immigration signs
Justice
A prominent immigrant advocate has been detained by immigration agents in New York City
a cartoon drawn by cartoonist Eaten Fish that shows a map of Russia with a sad face, a tear in one eye and the words "I am only a refugee" wit the "I" in the shape of a fishbone.
Media
How Eaten Fish survived four years in refugee detention with his cartoons, social media and a network of activist friends
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Field Office Director Jorge Field (L), 53, arrests an Iranian immigrant in San Clemente, California.
Conflict
ICE agents are increasingly playing the roles of both police and judge
View of white building with columns from behind blue, still water fountain
Justice
The Supreme Court is considering whether immigrants detained for more than six months should have a chance at bail
Detention center
Justice
How immigration detention creates a shadow prison system
A view of hands on the window of a prison cell door
Global Politics
Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump
Refugee advocates hold placards and banners during a protest in Sydney on October 5, 2016.
Justice
Is the Australian government enabling crimes against humanity in its offshore detention centers?
Migrants, hoping to cross into Hungary, walk with babies on their backs along a railway track outside the village of Horgos in Serbia, toward the border it shares with Hungary, on Aug. 31, 2015.
Conflict
Hungary will detain asylum-seekers in shipping containers
Front of building with sign for Prairieland Detention Center
Justice
President Trump, how will you handle cases of abuse at privately run prisons and immigration detention centers?
Men on horses in Border Patrol uniforms, seen from back at dusk
Justice
#4. @realDonaldTrump: As you increase immigration enforcement, will you make public information about detention & deportation? #100Days100Qs
Front of building with sign for Prairieland Detention Center
Economics
In a small Texas town, a new private detention center for transgender migrants brings jobs — and concerns
A train in a green field with someone standing on the top of a car
Conflict
Advocates suggest another option for US-bound Central Americans: Stay and work in Mexico
Bodies and feet of two young people, one pregnant
Justice
On the way to the US, children seeking asylum are often put in Mexico’s detention centers
Officers walk into a building through a parking ramp
Justice
20 years ago, asylum seekers were not automatically put in immigration detention
Woman and young man in suit holding papers look at each other in elevator
Justice
What it’s like to represent detained immigrants in overloaded courts — day in and day out
Front of Adelanto detention center with GEO Group sign
Justice
California’s governor vetoed a bill that would stop privately run migrant detention. What now?
A simple bed with a colorful blanket
Justice
Advocates say another privately operated immigration detention center for women and children is the wrong approach
Justice
Moms go on a hunger strike to get themselves and their kids out of immigration detention
A woman looks out a window of a holding cell
Justice
The Department of Justice will stop contracting with private prison companies, but immigration officials won’t follow suit
A panel of an illustration about a woman being deported to Czech Republic
Justice
Letters are a lifeline for people in immigration detention. Here’s a project that brings those words to life
An illustration of two children with there mother, hand pointing
Justice
These asylum-seekers are being forced to raise their kids in immigration ‘jails’
Julia's ankle monitor
Justice
Many women seeking asylum in the US have been released from detention — but with ankle monitors
Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility, in Brownsville, Texas on June 18, 2014.
Conflict
What you missed in US immigration this year
El Salvador_deportation
Conflict
Families that are deported after crossing the border say they return home feeling hopeless and desperate
Conflict & Justice
Volunteers keep watch, ease isolation of immigrant detainees
A Former INS Commissioner on the New ICE Guidelines
Conflict & Justice
FRONTLINE: Abuse in ICE Detention Facilities