In Detention

1,218 documented incidents tagged “In Detention” in the Human Impact Project database — showing the 100 most recent. View all on the interactive map.

• Venezuelan DoorDash driver shot by ICE agent, says denied surgery and held in isolation

  Sep 26, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Somali asylum seeker beaten at Guantánamo Bay after months in ICE detention, deported

  Sep 25, 2026 · St. Paul, MN

• Honduran man deported to Central African Republic ordered returned after due process violation

  Sep 25, 2026 · CO

• Mexican man thrown to ground and detained by ICE while buying wood in Phoenix, son also arrested

  Sep 25, 2026 · Phoenix, AZ

• Advocacy group says ICE is deliberately hiding detainees' locations from families

  Sep 24, 2026

• Court permanently bars ICE from holding detainees in abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza

  Sep 24, 2026 · New York, NY

• Judge orders ICE to fix squalid detention conditions at NYC facility

  Sep 24, 2026 · New York, NY

• Yankton father detained by ICE again, judge halts deportation flight minutes before takeoff

  Sep 23, 2026 · Yankton, SD

• ICE sweep detains dozens in Massachusetts, including fathers pulled from cars at gas stations

  Sep 23, 2026 · New Bedford, MA

• Diabetic Costa Rican father dies in ICE custody after complaints of missed insulin

  Sep 23, 2026 · LA

• Congresswoman blocked from speaking to detainees at massive Texas ICE tent camp

  Sep 22, 2026 · El Paso, TX

• Senegalese man deported to Ghana military camp after filming another deportee's forced removal

  Sep 21, 2026 · Ghana

• Guatemalan man deported after months in freezing ICE detention following worksite raid

  Sep 21, 2026 · San Diego, CA

• Senegalese woman attempts suicide after being held at remote Ghana deportation camp

  Sep 21, 2026 · Ghana

• Congolese woman with untreated thyroid condition self-deports from Cameroon shelter

  Sep 21, 2026

• Phoenix man deported to Equatorial Guinea beaten by police, goes missing after speaking to press

  Sep 20, 2026 · Tucson, AZ

• Cuban man detained during Florida outing, deported to Central African Republic, held in Bangui

  Sep 19, 2026 · West Palm Beach, FL

• Cuban immigrant held over a year in Eswatini prison after deportation without consent

  Sep 19, 2026 · Eswatini

• Cuban man with pending hernia surgery deported to Equatorial Guinea, family says

  Sep 19, 2026

• Cuban man beaten by ICE and deported to Equatorial Guinea despite promise of return

  Sep 19, 2026

• Cuban man says he was locked in phone-booth-sized cage for 15 hours at 'Alligator Alcatraz'

  Sep 18, 2026 · Ochopee, FL

• Venezuelan asylum seeker separated from family for months at Texas detention center

  Sep 18, 2026 · Taylor, TX

• Gas station worker called town's 'unofficial mayor' detained by ICE in Washington

  Sep 17, 2026 · Conway, WA

• Venezuelan asylum seeker detained in Puerto Rico wins court order blocking transfer, securing bond hearing

  Sep 17, 2026 · Guaynabo, PR

• Pakistani man moved 17 times, 11,000 miles through ICE detention system

  Sep 17, 2026 · Baltimore, MD

• Pregnant Kenyan asylum seeker detained by ICE during USCIS interview, later released

  Sep 16, 2026 · Tukwila, WA

• Turkish restaurant worker zip-tied by ICE at Wyoming bus stop, contests deportation

  Sep 16, 2026 · Jackson, WY

• Inspector General finds detainees held in phone booth-sized cages at Alligator Alcatraz

  Sep 16, 2026 · Ochopee, FL

• Berkeley diner manager detained by ICE at Oakland Airport, freed after habeas petition

  Sep 15, 2026 · Oakland, CA

• Pregnant woman held at Dilley ICE facility denied specialist prenatal care for weeks

  Sep 15, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Santa Barbara observer pepper-sprayed by ICE agent at county jail

  Sep 15, 2026 · Santa Barbara, CA

• Exiled Nicaraguan journalist detained by ICE while driving for rideshare app in Florida

  Sep 15, 2026 · Miami, FL

• Detained immigrant's untreated throat tumor grew to size of lemon, lawyer says

  Sep 15, 2026 · California City, CA

• Woman miscarries at Mesa Verde detention center in California

  Sep 15, 2026 · Bakersfield, CA

• Data shows most Michigan ICE detainees deported, with lengthy transfers and detention

  Sep 14, 2026 · MI

• Watchdog report details cramped and cage-like conditions at Alligator Alcatraz

  Sep 14, 2026 · Ochopee, FL

• Argentine soccer player detained by ICE at airport, released after 3 weeks in custody

  Sep 13, 2026 · Miami, FL

• Colombian asylum-seeking mother says kidney infection went untreated for months at Otay Mesa

  Sep 13, 2026 · San Diego, CA

• Cary pastor paralyzed by stroke in ICE custody, later released after weeks without care

  Sep 13, 2026 · Cary, NC

• McKinney teacher's husband detained at ICE check-in, still held nine months later

  Sep 13, 2026 · McKinney, TX

• Eritrean refugee deported to Equatorial Guinea beaten, jailed after filming detention abuse

  Sep 11, 2026 · Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

• Detention officer forged ICE documents to hold 20 immigrant inmates

  Sep 11, 2026 · Greensboro, NC

• Gay Brazilian man deported to Equatorial Guinea despite winning torture protection ruling

  Sep 11, 2026 · Orlando, FL

• Colombian activist detained 650 days with medical neglect, finally freed by court order

  Sep 11, 2026 · Tacoma, WA

• Nicaraguan man alleges abuse by agents before deportation to Africa

  Sep 10, 2026

• 71-year-old Korean woman restrained, hospitalized after ICE detains her at green card interview

  Sep 10, 2026 · Gardena, CA

• DACA recipient detained at Boston airport, later sues ICE over custody conditions

  Sep 9, 2026 · Boston, MA

• Colombian man arrested by ICE at Portland airport while flying home with boyfriend

  Sep 9, 2026 · Portland, OR

• Two family members detained by ICE outside home, pressured to self-deport

  Sep 9, 2026 · Amsterdam, NY

• ICE ramps up detainee flights out of Seattle's Boeing Field, disrupting court hearings

  Sep 9, 2026 · Seattle, WA

• Palestinian detainee says ICE broke his teeth after he refused deportation flight

  Sep 9, 2026 · Vancouver, WA

• ICE dramatically expands use of Penn State's airport for detainee transfer flights

  Sep 9, 2026 · State College, PA

• Argentine woman held by ICE in Texas for a month despite voluntary departure order

  Sep 9, 2026 · TX

• Brazilian woman detained by ICE after 911 call, denied care for miscarriage infection

  Sep 8, 2026 · Burlington, MA

• Jamaican pastor deported to Equatorial Guinea while habeas case pending

  Sep 8, 2026

• Jamaican woman deported to Equatorial Guinea despite 2013 protection order

  Sep 8, 2026 · Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

• Asylum seeker married to Trump voter detained at Burbank airport, held 16 days

  Sep 7, 2026 · Burbank, CA

• Father self-deports to Mexico after traffic stop detention, family says

  Sep 7, 2026 · Santa Monica, CA

• Deportees allege officers used force after refusing to leave flight to Liberia

  Sep 6, 2026

• Detained Belarusian cancer survivor's health worsens in ICE custody

  Sep 4, 2026 · Leavenworth, KS

• Haitian pastor pulled from deportation flight after traffic stop, remains in ICE detention

  Sep 4, 2026 · York, PA

• Colombian woman detained at San Juan airport wins order blocking transfer while seeking bond hearing

  Sep 4, 2026 · San Juan, PR

• Kansas father, brought to US as infant, detained at job site and deported after 18 days

  Sep 4, 2026 · Lawrence, KS

• 66-year-old Colombian asylum seeker seized by ICE at Washington McDonald's

  Sep 4, 2026 · Tacoma, WA

• Ex-Ecuadorian minister deported despite torture-risk protection order, now abused in Ecuadorian jail

  Sep 4, 2026 · Miami, FL

• ICE bans hugs at California's largest detention center, separating families behind glass

  Sep 4, 2026 · California City, CA

• Cuban deportee with severe hernia allegedly beaten, denied care after being flown to two African countries

  Sep 4, 2026 · Miami, FL

• ICE arrests surge across San Diego region, including children, data shows

  Sep 4, 2026 · San Diego, CA

• Father detained by ICE during work lunch break, family fights for release

  Sep 3, 2026 · Rock Hill, SC

• Venezuelan woman discovers pregnancy after ICE detention, fears for baby

  Sep 3, 2026

• 81-year-old Iranian man freed after seven months in ICE detention

  Sep 3, 2026 · Nashville, TN

• Lawyers mobilize to free nearly 1,900 immigrant children held for months without parents

  Sep 3, 2026

• Russian asylum seeker's health declines during stalled habeas case in Mississippi

  Sep 3, 2026 · Natchez, MS

• Deaf 6-year-old deported to Colombia without hearing aids after ICE check-in

  Sep 3, 2026 · Hayward, CA

• Father, W&L scholarship student son detained by ICE during Florida traffic stop

  Sep 2, 2026 · St. Johns County, FL

• Chinese national dies less than a day after entering ICE custody in Saipan

  Sep 2, 2026 · Saipan, MP

• 76-year-old cancer patient detained by ICE at citizenship interview, misses treatments

  Sep 2, 2026 · Fife, WA

• Cuban ICE detainee force-fed via surgical tube after judge's order during hunger strike

  Sep 1, 2026 · Conroe, TX

• Mariachi brothers shackled and separated from family, released after bipartisan pressure

  Sep 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Green card holder held eight days at San Francisco airport by CBP

  Sep 1, 2026 · San Francisco, CA

• Venezuelan asylum seeker with work permit detained by ICE outside Walmart

  Sep 1, 2026 · Bloomington, IN

• Mexican deportee held for days in cramped U.S. facility before being flown to Guatemala

  Sep 1, 2026 · San Antonio, TX

• Victor Salgado Araujo held 54 days by ICE as witness to agent's killing of his brother

  Aug 31, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Asylum seeker with breast cancer detained after traffic stop, denied medical care and process

  Aug 29, 2026 · Adelanto, CA

• Venezuelan asylum-seeker slammed against wall, detained by ICE for 21 days at Atlanta airport

  Aug 29, 2026 · Atlanta, GA

• Army wife pulled off deportation flight mid-journey, returned home to Louisiana

  Aug 28, 2026 · Louisiana

• Ecuadorian man re-arrested at ICE check-in after years on parole wins habeas release

  Aug 27, 2026 · Long Beach, CA

• Danbury baker tased and kicked by ICE agents outside his home, hospitalized

  Aug 27, 2026 · Danbury, CT

• Woman repeatedly shackled and shuttled between jail and ICE office for months

  Aug 27, 2026 · Pinellas County, FL

• U.S. citizen thrown to ground, detained for hours by ICE in Passaic, NJ

  Aug 27, 2026 · Passaic, NJ

• Deportees flown to southern Mexico face kidnapping, torture, and lost belongings, rights groups report

  Aug 26, 2026 · Guatemala City, Guatemala

• Canadian citizen deported to Canada after 9 months in ICE detention

  Aug 26, 2026 · Ojai, CA

• ICE detainee suffers stroke in custody, denied therapy, wins court-ordered release from Adelanto

  Aug 26, 2026 · Adelanto, CA

• Witness to fatal Houston ICE shooting released after weeks in detention

  Aug 26, 2026 · Houston, TX

• Miami mechanic, 72, deported to remote Mexican border city after 46 years in U.S.

  Aug 26, 2026 · Miami, FL

• Man with health condition held nearly 10 months in ICE detention

  Aug 26, 2026

• American journalist detained for hours at airport by CBP, denied lawyer

  Aug 25, 2026

• Honduran mother reunited with breastfeeding baby after judge orders ICE release

  Aug 25, 2026 · Austin, TX

• NC teacher and grandmother detained by ICE despite dismissed case, granted bond

  Aug 24, 2026 · Charlotte, NC

• Pastor Gabriel Johnson suffers stroke in ICE custody, family denied contact and updates

  Aug 24, 2026 · TX