GEO Group · ICE contract
Delaney Hall (Newark, NJ)
≈1,000 beds
Active hunger strike; pepper spray reported against protesters; congressional delegation denied entry.
Civil liberties · ICE detention & enforcement
ICE Watch — what's happening inside and outside the walls.
A dedicated lens for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions — detention conditions, due-process failures, courthouse arrests, oversight blockades, and the local fights they trigger. The current flashpoint is in New Jersey, but this page tracks anywhere a federal immigration action raises a rule-of-law or civil-liberties concern.
Active crisis
Delaney Hall hunger strike, Newark, NJ
ICE detainees at the GEO-operated Delaney Hall facility in Newark have been on hunger strike. Family members and Newark elected officials report pepper-spray deployment against outside protesters, denial of access to a sitting member of Congress, and ongoing concerns about medical care, due process, and conditions of confinement. This is the highest-severity ICE story on the site right now.
Facility tracker — New Jersey
Three NJ facilities to watch
CoreCivic · ICE contract
Elizabeth Detention Center (Elizabeth, NJ)
≈300 beds
Long-running due-process and medical-care complaints.
Bergen County Sheriff
Bergen County Jail (Hackensack, NJ)
Ended ICE contract — monitor for renewal
Phased out 287(g) cooperation; watching for any reversal.
Detention conditions
Inside the facilities
Civil LibertiesCrisis
‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention
Krome Service Processing — triggers: hunger strike, force-feeding. <p>Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show medical procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws</p><p>Homeland security officials under the Trump administration have quietly attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in US immigrant detention to involu
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Civil LibertiesSerious
What Happens When Prisons Stop Punishing People
an ICE facility — triggers: solitary confinement. Inside a German prison, incarcerated people wear their own clothes, live in cell blocks that look like apartments, and some earn day passes to spend time with their loved ones outside the prison. Nearly 2 million people are incarcerated in the United States in a system built on one core idea: punishment. But what if pr
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Civil LibertiesCrisis
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
an ICE facility — triggers: died in ice custody, solitary confinement. <p>I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities</p><p>We don’t have concentration camps today in the United States, but we have something close. More than 65,000 people are currently confined in demeaning, often dangerous, sometimes t
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Civil LibertiesSerious
Meet Beto Coral, Activist Targeted by ICE for Criticism of Trump-Backed Colombian President-Elect
an ICE facility — triggers: solitary confinement. A prominent Colombian activist left the United States after he was arrested by immigration agents and detained for over a month in an <span class="caps">ICE</span> jail. Franklin Humberto Coral Garrido, known as Beto Coral, was a frequent online critic of far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, a Trump ally
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Civil LibertiesCrisis
Revealed: Trump administration forced treatment on hunger striker in ICE detention
an ICE facility — triggers: hunger strike. <p>ICE report reviewed by the Guardian discloses a patient was ‘subject to force feeding, hydration or urinary catheterization’, which experts have described as torture</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> subjected at least one person undertaking a hunge
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Civil LibertiesSerious
How to Investigate Extreme Heat in Prisons
an ICE facility — triggers: solitary confinement. How can journalists and researchers investigate the dangers of extreme heat in prisons and ICE detention centers? In this webinar recording, experts and reporters discuss strategies for covering the impacts of climate change on incarcerated people in the U.S. Heat waves and days with temperatures above 100 degrees Fahr
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Civil LibertiesSerious
LIVE: Outside court for D4vd’s preliminary hearing in the killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
an ICE facility — triggers: shackled. Watch live from outside the courthouse in LA as a preliminary hearing takes place to determine whether singer D4vd should go to trial in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her dismembered body was found in his Tesla in September. No cameras are permitted inside court. #d4vd #live #d4vdlive #livestream
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Civil LibertiesSerious
Pressure mounts on Texas to address brutal heat crisis in prison cells
an ICE facility — triggers: solitary confinement. <p>State hit by new wrongful death lawsuit by family of Jason Wilson, who died in ‘brutally hot, un-airconditioned’ cell</p><p>Texas, the state with the largest prison population in the US, is coming under mounting legal pressure to address the ongoing crisis of brutal heat in its cells, as extreme summer temperatures
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Civil LibertiesSerious
Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail?
an ICE facility — triggers: shackled. The family of Geraldo Lunas Campos is suing over the 55-year-old Cuban immigrant’s death at an <span class="caps">ICE</span> detention center in Texas earlier this year, with a local coroner ruling his death a homicide from asphyxia. The Department of Homeland Security said Lunas Campos had attempted suicide, but witne
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Civil LibertiesSevere
Our Clients' Stories of Conditions at Camp East Montana | #aclu #shorts #immigration | ACLU
an ICE facility — triggers: medical neglect. Moldy housing units, insect-infected food, medical neglect, and abuse from guards are just some of the stories our clients tell us about from inside Camp East Montana at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas. This is unconscionable and illegal. We’re taking ICE to court.
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Civil LibertiesCrisis
NJ Spotlight News: June 24, 2026
Delaney Hall — triggers: hunger strike [NJ]. We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news and our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. 00:00 - Opening 00:59 - Assessing World Cup travel 9:39 - Delaney Hall hunger strike ends after 'retaliation,' journalist says 17:12 - Bipartisan housing bill on hold 17:58
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Civil LibertiesCrisis
Delaney Hall hunger strike ends after ‘retaliation,’ journalist says
Delaney Hall — triggers: hunger strike [NJ]. “Detainees, relatives of detainees and advocates on the ground have been saying it’s not sustainable anymore at this point for the people who remain to participate in a hunger and labor strike,” said Daysi Calavia-Robertson, a columnist for NJ.com. “Because they are being retaliated against.” Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE
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Enforcement & oversight
Courthouse arrests, raids, and blockades
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Video shows plainclothes ICE officers attempt to detain man at Las Vegas airport
ICE enforcement [masked_unidentified]. ICE agents in plain clothes at Harry Reid Airport in Las Vegas tried to detain a man they claim overstayed his visa. Other travelers intervened and the ICE agents ended up walking away, leaving the man handcuffed on one wrist. He was taken into custody the next day when his flight landed in L.A. Nicole Sganga reports.
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US cooking oil market shrinking due to Ice pressures on Latino households, Mazola owner says
ICE enforcement [workplace_raid]. <p>Economic squeeze and anti-immigration raids have hit Hispanic communities, prompting people to shop online and reuse oil</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/jul/01/uk-house-prices-flat-june-nationwide-higher-energy-bills-cap-inflation-bank-england-latest-news-updates">Business live
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What is the United States of America now? | Rebecca Solnit
ICE enforcement [masked_unidentified]. <p>The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed</p><p>The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch. The United States of America is a program that has been hacked. The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and ma
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Senator Ron Wyden accuses US health agency of plan to deport more than 500 migrant children
ICE enforcement [due_process]. <p>Wyden says in a letter addressed to Robert F Kennedy Jr that HHS is preparing an ‘unprecedented legal framework’</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ron-wyden">Ron Wyden</a>, a US senator of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/oregon">Oregon</a>, accused the Department of Health and Human Ser
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Federal judge blocks Trump policy that allows immigration court arrests
ICE enforcement [courthouse_arrest]. <p>Judge vacates administrations policies, finding actions of ICE and another government arm ‘arbitrary and capricious’</p><p>A federal judge in California vacated the Trump administration’s nationwide policies expanding arrests at immigration courthouses and the duration for detaining noncitizens in short-term faci
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration efforts to subpoena Minnesota governor Tim Walz and others – live
ICE enforcement [workplace_raid]. <p>Judge criticized attempts to ‘harass and retaliate against’ Minnesota officials for refusal to aid federal immigration crackdown</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/22/federal-subpoenas-minnesota-officials-order">Judge blocks subpoenas for Tim Walz and others over Minnesota ICE raids<
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A year after ICE raids terrorized Los Angeles, a rattled city counts its scars: ‘The arrests never really stopped’
ICE enforcement [workplace_raid]. <p>Thousand of arrests last summer led to mass protests and some deaths – across the city, communities bear the scars</p><p>Most people in Brian Gavidia’s life haven’t seemed to notice that a year has passed since armed federal immigration agents descended on their city.</p><p>In East Los Angeles, in the neighborhood w
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Updates on Delaney Hall Protests | #aclu #ice #shorts | ACLU
ICE enforcement [workplace_raid] [NJ]. The real harm isn't from peaceful protests — but the brutality of the Trump administration's ICE raids and inhumane immigration detention centers. New Jersey’s response to protestors at Delaney Hall must prioritize the safety and well-being of everyone.
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LA’s storied fashion district in a slump – can the Olympics put it back on its feet?
ICE enforcement [workplace_raid]. <p>The neighborhood that makes America’s clothes has been buffeted by ICE raids and post-Covid problems – but leaders say hope is on the horizon</p><p>Downtown Los Angeles’s fashion district, the largest apparel manufacturing hub in the United States, is a neighborhood in freefall. While <a href="https://planning.lacit
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The heartbreaking reason Japanese Americans are protesting ICE raids in this N.J. community
ICE enforcement [workplace_raid]. More than 80 years after their own families were locked up, these Japanese Americans say history may be repeating itself in their South Jersey community.
Why a dedicated page
Immigration enforcement is a civil-liberties story first.
ICE detention and enforcement decisions sit at the intersection of due process, judicial independence, congressional oversight, and free assembly. When a federal agency holds people without speedy review, denies sitting members of Congress facility access, or uses force against peaceful protesters, the relevant question isn't just immigration policy — it's whether the rule of law is operating. That's why ICE has its own page on this site, with extra weight on primary sources and corroborated reporting from Democracy Now!, the AP, FRONTLINE, the Marshall Project, and local outlets including NJ.com and NJ Spotlight News.