Interior Enforcement
New Report Details ICE’s Expanding and Increasingly Unaccountable Detention System
Key Takeaways When President Trump took office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was holding roughly 40,000 people in a national network of detention centers on any given day. In just one year, this number has increased by over 75%, with a record 73,000 people being held in… Read More
Report: Immigration Detention Is Bigger, Harsher, and Less Accountable Than Ever
Trump Administration Targets People with No Criminal Record and Uses Detention to Pressure Them to Give Up Their Cases Washington DC, Jan. 14 Wednesday — A new report released today by the American Immigration Council shows that the Trump administration is locking up hundreds of thousands of people— most with no… Read More
Can Renee Good’s Family Sue ICE in the Aftermath of Her Killing? The Answer Is Complicated
On the snowy streets of Minneapolis in the early days of January 2026, an ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good—a U.S. citizen and mother driving a Honda Pilot with stuffed animals hanging out of the glove compartment. She had reportedly just dropped off her six-year-old… Read More
ICE Uses a Growing Web of AI Services to Power Its Immigration Enforcement and Surveillance
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an updated version of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Case Inventory this summer. At first glance, the changes seemed routine—some AI software programs were marked “inactive,” and a new one was added. But upon closer examination, the removal of the AI… Read More
Federal Court Blocks ICE’s Unlawful Detention of Immigrant Teens Turning 18
Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, 2025 — On December 12, a federal court in D.C. ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to follow a long-standing court order that protects immigrant teens from being placed in adult detention centers. The court’s order… Read More
Testifying on Interior Immigration Enforcement: Citizen Arrests, DHS Overreach, and Erosion of Rights
Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick delivered oral testimony before Congress exposing skyrocketing “at-large” arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), profiling, wrongful detentions of U.S. citizens, and the urgent need for congressional reform. Read More
Trump’s Travel Ban Decides the Real Winners and Losers of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Draw
Millions of people across the globe tuned into the draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The ceremony decided which countries will play each other at next summer’s tournament, co-hosted for the first time by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Hosting the World Cup, the largest sporting… Read More
Why You’re Seeing Border Patrol in Places Like Charlotte and Atlanta, So Far From the Border
When Border Patrol agents descended upon Charlotte, North Carolina last week, many wondered why they were allowed to stop and question people so far from the border. Typically, it’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who have become ubiquitous with the largescale enforcement operations of the second… Read More
The Trump Administration’s New Mass Deportation Playbook
Donald Trump has put his whole government toward mass deportation. One of the most visible aspects of that is a playbook that’s beginning to become standardized in city after city around the country: Border Patrol and ICE urban terror playbook. We’ve seen it in LA, Chicago, and now… Read More
As ICE Courthouse Arrests Continue, Few Immigration Courts Resist Pushing Cases Into Expedited Removal
Immigration courthouse arrests and dismissals have become a cornerstone of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan. Since May 20, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorneys have been asking immigration judges to dismiss noncitizens’ immigration court cases to funnel them into expedited removal—a faster deportation process with… Read More
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