U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has opened a new detention facility in California’s Central Valley, increasing the total number of immigration detention centers in the state to eight, and raising concerns about the rapid expansion and conditions inside the facilities.
People detained at the Adelanto Detention Facility will now have greater protections for access to legal counsel and phone calls under a settlement in Torres v. Noem, a lawsuit brought against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the GEO Group.
The Trump administration’s new policy of denying judges the discretion to grant bond to anyone held in ICE detention, coupled with the Laken Riley Act and the One Big Beautiful Bill, threatens to send thousands more people into already appalling conditions while awaiting their immigration trials, compounding injustice and straining an already broken system.
Bianca Tylek has raised concerns about the expansion of private prison corporations profiting from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies, which has led to longer detention periods, the reopening of previously closed facilities, and the influx of new vendors in the immigration detention space.
The UK’s National Contact Point for the OECD accepted complaints alleging that Barclays and HSBC violated OECD guidelines by maintaining financial ties to CoreCivic and GEO Group, two private prison operators accused of systemic human rights abuses.
Trump’s latest budget bill allocates $45 billion to ICE to build new detention centers and doubles immigrant detention capacity, while also increasing immigration-related fees and rolling back oversight mechanisms.
The Defender Association of Philadelphia has issued a statement vowing to defend immigrants from fear, detention and deportation, regardless of their immigration status, in response to a memorandum from President Trump threatening to sanction lawyers who sue him over “baseless partisan” attacks.
Advocates are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to permanently close the state’s deactivated prisons before they can be repurposed by the federal government as immigration detention centers, in order to protect California’s progress on decarceration and prevent ICE expansion.
ICE’s mass deportation agenda threatens to dramatically escalate the use of detention, which is plagued by abuse and neglect, and the Trump administration’s detention and deportation agenda diverts billions from investments that foster real public safety.
Advocates are calling on Governor Newsom to fully decommission shuttered state prisons and prevent them from being repurposed as ICE detention centers, as federal immigration raids are increasing across California.
Federal magistrate judge Andre Espinosa reprimanded the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the “hasty arrest” of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for trespassing and the “embarrassing” retraction of the charges, and reminded them of their responsibility to uphold justice and due process.
Mayor of Newark, NJ, Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing during a protest against an ICE detention facility, but has denied the allegations and is seeking legal action against the facility’s operator.
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