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On Inauguration Day, the Justice Department fired the acting head of the immigration court system and three top officials. Since then, more than 100 immigration judges have been fired.
The numbers reflect the significant effort the Trump administration has put into its escalating immigration crackdown.
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DeSantis announces plans for second immigration detention facility dubbed 'Deportation Depot'
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility dubbed ''Deportation Depot'' at a state prison as a federal judge decides the fate of the state's holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades known as ''Alligator Alcatraz.
What will soon become the largest immigration detention facility in the United States is now up and running at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Those immigration bond hearings will now take place at the Krome Detention Center, but despite that major change, attorneys for the ACLU allege those being held at the controversial detention center are still being denied access to their attorneys.
Officials in a rural Tennessee town have voted to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite loud objections from upset residents and activists during a contentious public meeting.
A violent July 4th shootout at a Texas immigration detention facility is now being tied to what officials describe as a secretive far-left network.
A Boulder-based company is playing a key role in the Trump administration’s growing immigration surveillance network. BI Inc., a subsidiary of the private prison giant Geo Group, manufactures the GPS-enabled ankle monitors now being required for thousands of immigrants under new directives from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.