Migrant detention centers

One woman who spoke to USA TODAY recounted being chained to other detainees and transported for hours without food or water

Reports suggest that President Trump is preparing to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act as soon as Friday

The Trump administration has flown all remaining migrants held at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station back to the United States, a Defense Department official confirmed

Military flights to Guantanamo cost up to $27,000 per detainee, while ICE charter flights are cheaper, but still entail financial burdens, including security personnel and medical staff

Twelve migrants have been charged with assaulting two federal correctional officers in a detention facility near the South Texas border.

The Biden administration ended the practice of detaining families at the site, converting some family detention centers into processing facilities aimed at releasing migrants within 72 hours

Civil rights attorneys have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to prevent the transfer of undocumented immigrants from the United States to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

One civil rights complaint alleged that staff in a Buffalo facility retaliated against hunger-striking detainees through physical force and solitary confinement

"It will now be up to the courts to ensure that immigrants cannot be warehoused on offshore islands," said a representative of the ACLU through a statement

"Today, the first flights from the United States to Guantánamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway," Leavitt said on Fox Business.

ICE was forced to release detained migrants and place them on monitored leave after growing concerns of overcrowding detention centers.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement estimates that implementing the act would cost $3.2 billion in additional funding for the 2025 fiscal year.

Private companies, including CoreCivic and GEO Group, submitted proposals that could collectively add between 6,650 and 12,000 detention beds nationwide

"The time and staffing needed to arrest a single immigrant reveals how difficult it may be to scale up to mass deportations" concluded NBC News

Initially proposed under the Biden administration, a new ICE detention center near San Francisco could now serve as a key asset in advancing Trump's mass deportation plans.

ICE is currently negotiating at least 14 contracts with private prison companies despite Biden's initial pledge to end such practices

According to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) many of those who have a criminal record "have only minor offenses, including traffic violations"

NBC News revealed that the aim is to double the current 41,000 ICE detention beds to house detained immigrants prior to deportation

The lawsuit contends that ICE "regularly fails" to return funds as required, leaving thousands of people without their deposits even after cases close

Zoe Lofgren argued in a letter that the profit-driven nature of these facilities leads to a focus on cutting costs at the expense of humane treatment

"Since Border Czar Kamala Harris won't protect this country, then I will," said Senator Joni Ernst when addressing her proposal

The organization is concerned about how such policies could impact the civil rights and civil liberties of immigrants

ICE statistics quoted by Trump actually go back 40 years and include people who are currently incarcerated by federal, state or local law enforcement partners

Most of the detainees are Haitian and Cuban migrants who use makeshift boats to try to reach the United States by sea.

The civil lawsuit comes weeks after reports of inhumane treatment at detention centers in places like Louisiana and Philadelphia

The report by Temple University documents testimonies describing "inhumane, punitive and dangerous conditions" at Moshannon Valley Processing Center

The report states that the abuses described by detainees "meet the definitions of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment"

During Trump's presidential term, ICE expanded its detention centers by 50% by agreeing to opening more than 40 new facilities across the country