Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
The Trump administration has deported parents of over 11,000 U.S. citizen children, with mothers being deported four times as often as fathers, resulting in family separations.
The Trump administration has deported parents of over 11,000 U.S. citizen children, with mothers being deported four times as often as fathers, resulting in family separations.
The DHS deported 363 pregnant, postpartum or nursing women between Jan. 1, 2025, and Feb. 16, 2026, raising concerns about the health risks of detaining pregnant individuals and the need for further investigation into detention practices and outcomes.
Human Rights Watch has reported that over 9,000 Salvadorans deported from the US since January 2025 have been forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained in El Salvador’s prison system without access to lawyers, family members or judicial review.
The ACLU released a report warning that the Trump administration’s expansion of the 287(g) program is turning local police departments into a “national deportation-policing force” and encouraging racial profiling.
ICE agents have been engaging in aggressive enforcement actions with little accountability, using tactics such as seizing people off the street, breaking into vehicles, and using tear gas and pepper spray against nonviolent protesters, while Supreme Court decisions have limited the ability of individuals to sue for damages and provided little recourse for those harmed by ICE.
The Trump administration made more than 3,000 arrests in Colorado, a figure more than four times the number recorded during the same period in the final year of the Biden administration, according to data compiled by Sentinel.
ICE is making more than 1,000 arrests per day nationwide, with nearly half of those arrests occurring inside local jails and other lockups, revealing that the front lines of immigration enforcement are deeply tied to decisions made by governors, sheriffs and local police departments.
New federal data shows that ICE is increasingly detaining people with no criminal history, undermining the agency’s stated focus on public safety and due process.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after August 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison, but has created an expedited “alien removal process” to deport undocumented immigrants, bypassing the usual parole restrictions and responsibilities.
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