U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts denied the government’s motion to stay a preliminary injunction requiring ICE to maintain humane conditions in its San Francisco detention facility, ruling that the injunction applies to all areas used for short-term confinement and is not limited to a single floor of the building.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has warned the Department of Homeland Security that the state’s largest immigration detention center is operating without adequate staffing, infrastructure, and medical capacity, resulting in unsafe living conditions for detainees.
Seven people detained at a California immigration detention center have filed a lawsuit against ICE, citing inadequate medical care, denial of access to counsel, and punitive conditions, including solitary confinement and neglect of people with disabilities.
CAIR-CA has filed a writ of habeas corpus and an emergency temporary restraining order to prevent the government from transferring British Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi away from his legal team, after he was detained by ICE on Oct. 26, 2025.
Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian-born former professional soccer player, was released after spending more than two years in unlawful U.S. immigration detention following his acquittal on terrorism-related charges, in a case cited as an example of prolonged and inhumane detention practices within the U.S. justice and immigration systems.
The Marshall Project reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has increased the use of solitary confinement in detention centers under the Trump administration, causing severe psychological harm to thousands of immigrants, with one mother of three from Mexico being held in a windowless isolation cell with a broken toilet for almost two months.
The ACLU is challenging the federal government over what it calls blatant violations of the First Amendment, after two students were detained by ICE in retaliation for their speech supporting Palestinian rights.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against ICE, demanding the agency turn over records related to its plans to expand immigration detention in Virginia, arguing that ICE has failed to comply with federal transparency laws and is attempting to shield critical information about the growth of its detention network during the Trump administration.
Civil rights organizations have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging courthouse arrests of immigrants and the prolonged detention of people in harsh conditions at ICE’s San Francisco Field Office.
A new report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to underreport detention abuses and population numbers, leaving over 10,500 people subjected to torturous conditions over the past 14 months.
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 ACLU has warned that the Trump administration is converting Fort Bliss into one of the nation’s largest immigration detention sites, with capacity for up to 5,000 people, and has condemned the move as a misuse of military resources to facilitate the deportation of immigrants.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced the opening of a second immigration detention facility, dubbed “Deportation Depot,” at the Baker Correctional Institution to hold up to 2,000 detainees, while a federal judge considers the future of the state’s controversial holding center for immigrants at the Everglades airstrip known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Immigrants’ rights advocates have filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging inhumane detention conditions and a denial of access to legal counsel at a federal immigration holding facility in Manhattan.
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.
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