Original Date Announced

Section 10 of Executive Order (EO) 14159, "Protecting the American People Against Invasion," directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate action and allocate all legally available resources or establish contracts to construct, operate, control, or use facilities to detain removable noncitizens.

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2025.02.26 ICE Reopens Delaney Hall Facility in Newark, NJ

ICE and GEO Group announced the reopening of the Delaney Hall Facility in Newark, NJ, after reaching an agreement to reestablish the federal immigration processing and detention center at the 1,000-bed facility. This detention center is the first to open under the second Trump administration.

Acting Director Caleb Vitello said in a statement that "[t]he location near an international airport streamlines logistics, and helps facilitate the timely processing of individuals in our custody as we pursue President Trump’s mandate to arrest, detain and remove illegal aliens from our communities."

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2025.02.27 ICE modifies contract with CoreCivic to increase detention capacity

CoreCivic, a private-prison company, announced it made contract modifications with ICE to increase immigration-detention capacity. The modifications allow for an additional 784 immigrants to be detained at facilities in OH, NV, and OK, and allow ICE to use 252 beds for immigration detention at a correctional facility in MS.

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2025.02.27 Reported: ICE awards $1B contract to private prison firm for major immigrant detention center - Newsroom

Newsroom reports that ICE awarded a private-prison company a 15-year contract worth $1 billion to detain up to 1,000 immigrants in New Jersey. Executives for one of the largest private-prison companies, GEO Group Inc., told investors in an earnings call that they expect “unprecedented opportunities” under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown by providing detention-bed capacity and increasing electronic-monitoring services of immigrants.

Newsroom further reports that "[t]he Newark detention center, Delaney Hall, will be the largest ICE processing facility and detention center on the East Coast....GEO has pushed for a contract with ICE to reopen that facility as a detention center and even sued New Jersey over its state law that bars private and public companies from contracting with ICE to detain immigrants."

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2025.04.01 ICE 70CDCR25R00000005 - Emergency Detention and Related Serv Strategic Sourcing Vehicle

ICE has issued a request for proposals (RFP) allowing private parties to submit bids for supplying "detention related services, including, but not limited to, physical detention facility, physical plant, transportation services, medical services, case processing and management services, and requisite staffing to provide comprehensive detention services in a manner that provides for the health, safety, and security of aliens in ICE custody." Prospective offerers "need not have the capability to provide each and every service detailed under the objectives" and can submit a bid to provide services covering only "the expert services they provide."

The RFP was issued as an "emergency acquisition," which allows the government to pursue a streamlined procurement process. The total combined or shared ceiling for all awards to be issued under the RFP is $45 billion; contracts awarded are anticipated to have a two-year period of performance.

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2025.04.02 ICE expands detention capacity with Glades County Jail in Florida

ICE announced that it reinstated the intergovernmental service agreement with the Glades County Board of County Commissioners to house ICE detainees at the Glades County Jail in Moore Haven, Florida. This agreement reestablishes the federal immigration processing and detention center and adds up to 500 beds. ICE had reduced its use of the facility and in 2022 announced that future use would depend on whether substandard conditions had been fully addressed.

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2025.06.16 Reported: ICE is using no-bid contract, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds - ABC

ABC News reports that "[t]o get more detention beds, the Trump administration has modified dozens of existing agreements with contractors and used no-bid contracts," including a deal with the private prison company CoreCivic to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, and a modified contract with Geo Group for an existing detention center in southeastern Georgia "so that the company could reopen an idle prison on adjacent land to hold 1,868 migrants, as well as "nine five-year contracts for a combined 10,312 beds." The agreements have not been released, as "ICE used what are known as letter contracts . . . normally reserved for minor matters."

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2025.08.08 Complaint - Barco Mercado v. Noem

Sergio Barco Mercado, a Peruvian immigrant and New Jersey resident, filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to challenge the "crowded, squalid, and punitive" conditions of confinement at 26 Federal Plaza, a Manhattan ICE office where ICE detains immigrants arrested at court hearings and check-ins. The complaint alleges that ICE has banned attorneys from accessing clients there, describing "concrete cells" designed to hold people for hours, in which ICE has "packed" people "for a week or more." The complaint states that the holding center has no beds or showers; detainees sleep "on the floor next to the toilet," in cells that are "either freezing or oppressively hot," and receive "at most only two small meals a day." Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to ensure access to counsel and improve conditions of confinement. Barco Mercado v. Noem, 1:25-cv-06568 (S.D.N.Y.).

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2025.08.12 Temporary Restraining Order - Barco Mercado v. Noem.pdf

Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York issues a Temporary Restraining Order ("TRO") imposing minimum standards governing physical and sanitary conditions for detainees arrested and held by ICE at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. The TRO requires ICE to allow detainees held there to obtain and make confidential phone calls to legal counsel and to provide a fact sheet to detainees with their legal rights. It also requires that ICE's Online Detainee Locator System "accurately identifies the location of each Detainee in real time or as close thereto as is reasonably possible." Plaintiffs' request for class certification and a preliminary injunction remain pending. Barco Mercado v. Noem, No. 1:25-cv-06568 (S.D.N.Y.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2025.08.15 Reported: ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this year - Washington Post

The Washington Post reports that internal documents reveal ICE's plan to rapidly expand detention by opening or enlarging 125 facilities this year to reach capacity for more than 107,000 people. The planning roadmap shows that ICE intends to expand immigration detention to new parts of the country, nearly doubling its number of large-scale, mega-detention centers and relying increasingly on temporary “soft-sided” structures that can be built in weeks. The Trump administration also plans to dramatically grow family detention.

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2025.09.04 Reported: California’s Newest Immigration Facility Is Also Its Biggest. Is It Operating Legally? - KQED

KQED reported that a new immigration-detention facility has opened in California City, California, operated by CoreCivic, a private prison company. The facility would "significantly increase ICE’s ability to hold immigrants for deportation in the state." CoreCivic stated that it had begun receiving detainees from ICE, though advocates "claim CoreCivic is operating without proper permits and in defiance of a state law that requires 180 days’ public notice and two public meetings before a local government can issue a permit allowing a private company to run an immigration jail." The facility was previously a state prison.

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2025.09.16 Reported: ICE Detentions in New York County Jails Have Exploded - New York Focus

NY Focus reports that from January to July 2025, 2,800 individuals arrested by ICE have been held across seven New York county jails, up from 500 booked in 2024. Because private detention centers are banned in New York, county jails are central for ICE. The increase comes after several New York counties agreed to hold detained immigrants on behalf of federal agencies on a paid per-day basis. The average length of stay ranges from two days to 33 days. Legal advocates report that detainees in county jails are often difficult to locate and many jails are not equipped to facilitate detainees' language and legal needs.

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2025.09.17 Preliminary Injunction - Barco Mercado v. Noem.pdf

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a preliminary injunction ordering ICE to improve conditions for migrants detained at a Manhattan immigration-holding facility. The court granted provisional class certification for current and future detainees. ICE must provide detainees with adequate space (no less than 50 square feet per person), clean bedding, basic hygiene products, and free, confidential and unmonitored calls with their attorneys within 24 hours of detention. Class plaintiffs are "very likely to succeed" on the merits of their claims that holding-room conditions at 26 Federal Plaza violate the First and Fifth Amendments, and that they have been seriously injured or face a clear threat of irreparable injury absent relief. Barco Mercado v. Noem 1:25-cv-06568 (S.D.N.Y.)

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2025.09.18 Complaint and Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus - Pablo Sequen v. Albarran

A coalition of immigrant-rights groups and individual plaintiffs filed a class action against the Trump administration in the Northern District of California, challenging the administration's policy of courthouse arrests in Northern California and the prolonged detention of immigrants in "punitive and inhumane" conditions at the ICE field office in San Francisco. The suit contends that detainees are held in unsanitary conditions and deprived of sleep and medical care in violation of the Fifth Amendment; denied access to counsel in violation of the First and Fifth Amendments; and subjected to long waits in "hold rooms" under an agency policy that violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The suit also contests the constitutionality of the named plaintiffs' detention. Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief and ask the court to order the detained plaintiffs released. Pablo Sequen v. Albarran, No. 5:25-cv-06487 (N.D. Cal.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2025.09.23 Complaint - ACLU of Colorado v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The ACLU of Colorado filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the District of Colorado against ICE seeking records on plans for expanding immigration detention in Colorado and Wyoming, including at the vacant private Hudson Correctional Facility. This suit comes after ICE allegedly failed to comply with the ACLU's FOIA request for such documents. American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado v. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 1:25-cv-02983 (D. Colo.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2025.10.01 CoreCivic - CoreCivic Announces New Contract Award at Diamondback Correctional Facility

CoreCivic announced a new five-year contract with ICE and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to reopen, likely in early 2026, its 2,160-bed Diamondback Correctional Facility, idle since 2010. The agreement, effective September 30, 2025, includes fixed and per diem payments and is expected to generate about $100 million annually once fully operational.

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2025.10.16 Complaint - CLEAR Clinic v. Noem, No. 25-cv-01906-AA (D. Ore)

Plaintiffs CLEAR Clinic and Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) sued DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, ICE leadership, and CBP challenging agency policies and practices that deny detained individuals access to legal counsel following immigration arrests, specifically. The plaintiffs allege that federal agents have systematically prevented attorneys from meeting with current or prospective clients at ICE field offices in Portland and Eugene, failed to provide accurate information regarding detainees' locations, and rapidly transferred individuals out of state or to third countries to prevent them from obtaining legal assistance.

The complaint asserts that these practices violate the Fifth Amendment’s due process guarantees, the First Amendment rights of both detainees and attorneys to communicate and associate, and the APA for acting contrary to the INA and federal regulations. The plaintiffs seek declaratory relief and a preliminary and permanent injunction requiring the defendants to provide meaningful access to counsel detained immigrants. CLEAR Clinic v. Noem, No. 25-cv-01906-AA (D. Or.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above.**

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2025.10.20 Reported: DHS hiring over 40 health care practitioners for immigration detention centers - Politico

Politico reports that DHS is hiring over 40 "doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, pharmacists and health administrators" to increase the number of health care providers working in immigration detention centers, which "follows the revelation that nearly as many immigrants have died in custody so far this year than over the course of the Biden administration." According to government reports, recent deaths in immigration detention centers have been due to "infections, Covid-19, injuries, uncontrolled diabetes and suicide."

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2025.10.22 CLEAR Clinic v. Noem - Innovation Law Lab

This page describes the lawsuit filed in CLEAR Clinic v. Noem, where plaintiffs challenge the federal government's "mass deportation" enforcement operations in Oregon, specifically the practice of arresting noncitizens without judicial warrants and rapidly transferring them to detention facilities out of state. The webpage contains filings in the case, including the complaint, declarations made by individuals, and motions made to the court.

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2025.10.23 Reported: Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy - CNN

CNN reports that DHS is channeling $10 billion through the U.S. Navy in order to build detention centers faster. This money will go towards building efforts that are set to start in November. The contracting program is "a joint effort between DHS and the Defense Department and leans on the Navy's Supply Systems Command as a contracting arm to hire companies for construction and maintenance of the detention facilities." Detention centers built through this initiative will likely be soft-sided tents and may be on existing Navy installations. The goal is for the facilities to house as many as 10,000 people each; they are expected to be built in Louisiana, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Utah, and Kansas.

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2025.10.29 Reported: ICE detainees face greater risk from extreme heat than most prisoners - The Washington Post

The Washington Post reports that ICE detainees may be more vulnerable to extreme-heat exposure than people housed in federal, state, and county prisons, as ICE detention centers experience disproportionately high temperatures. The facilities endure an average of 29 days of dangerous heat per year—11 more than other prisons at federal, state, and county levels—with the hottest sites experiencing an average of 93 such days. This gap is expected to widen as the agency plans dramatically to increase its detention capacity. Despite years of complaints about broken or inadequate air conditioning, there is no comprehensive public data on temperatures in these facilities.

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2025.11.06 Reported: ICE’s detainee population reaches 66,000, a new record high, statistics show - CBS News

CBS News reports that ICE’s detention numbers are at a record 66,000 people, marking the highest detainee population in the agency’s history. The number has grown nearly 70% since inauguration, rising from about 39,000 in January and surpassing the previous peak of roughly 56,000 in 2019.

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2025.11.07 Restoring Access to Detainees Act

Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduced a bill titled the "Restoring Access to Detainees Act," focused on ensuring noncitizens in immigration detention have access to free telephone calls to speak with legal counsel and family members. The bill would require ICE to use a portion of the funding it received through the One Big Beautiful Bill to fund free telephone services, to provide detainees with at least a 10 minute call within the first five hours of custody in a new location and at least 200 minutes of phone time per month, and to provide detainees with extensive opportunities to communicate privately with legal counsel and with officials investigating detention conditions. The bill also instructs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish protocols to ensure that immigrant detainees are not prevented from accessing these services.

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2025.11.07 Reported: ‘Mega detention centers’: ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants - NBC News

NBC News reports that ICE is considering buying warehouses designed for companies like Amazon and converting them for detention. On average, the warehouses are more than twice the size of current ICE detention facilities. The exact locations of such warehouses are unknown, but ICE is exploring the southern U.S. near airports.

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2025.11.12 Complaint - Gomez Ruiz v. ICE

Seven immigrant detainees filed a lawsuit against ICE to challenge "inhumane conditions" at the California City Detention Facility, a recently reopened former state prison. The complaint alleges the privately run CoreCivic facility subjects detainees to unconstitutional punishment, including conditions of filth, isolation, and inadequate food and water. Plaintiffs also claim they are systematically denied essential medical care for serious conditions like cancer and diabetes, refused disability accommodations, and denied access to counsel. The complaint alleges violations under the First and Fifth Amendments, and the Rehabilitation Act. Gomez Ruiz v. ICE, No. 3:25-cv-09757 (N.D. Cal.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2025.11.25 Order Provisionally Certifying Classes, Granting Preliminary Injunction, and Denying Stay - Pablo Sequen v. Albarran

U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts granted plaintiffs’ motion to certify two proposed classes and primarily enjoin certain conditions of confinement at 630 Sansome relating to sleep, hygiene, medical care, and access to counsel. The court certified: (1) the courthouse-arrest class, composed of "[a]ll persons who have an immigration court hearing in a proceeding on EOIR’s non-detained docket in an immigration courthouse in ICE’s San Francisco Area of Responsibility;” and (2) the detention class, composed of "[a]ll persons who are now or will be detained in a holding cell" at 630 Sansome. The preliminary injunction requires ICE to provide class members with a bed and bedding, comfortable temperatures, dimmed lights at night, medical screening and care, hygiene products and clean clothes, and translators. The court did not grant a stay of ICE's waiver of the 12-hour detention limit at short-term holding facilities. Pablo Sequen v. Albarran, No. 5:25-cv-06487 (N.D. Cal.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**