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• Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear (archived), by Oliver Laughland, Will Craft and Raima Amjad, The Guardian, September 12, 2025

• Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo (archived), by Maanvi Singh and Will Craft, The Guardian, September 10, 2025

• Under Trump administration, ICE scraps paperwork officers once had to do before immigration arrests (archived), by Julia Ainsley, Didi Martinez and Laura Strickler, NBC News, September 9, 2025

• Local sheriffs are turning their jails into ICE detention centers (archived), by Allison McCann, New York Times, September 8, 2025

• Immigrants spend days in ‘miserable’ ICE hold rooms, violating longstanding policy (archived), by Casey Tolan and Isabelle Chapman, CNN, September 8, 2025

• DHS opens new immigration detention facility inside Louisiana’s Angola prison (archived), by Kati Weis and Julia Ingram, CBS News, September 3, 2025

• Map: How ICE is using major Texas county jails to detain immigrants (archived), by Yilun Cheng, Matt Zdun and Ava Hu, San Antonio Express News, September 3, 2025

• NYC immigration arrests and deportations surge after slow start, data shows (archived), by Arya Sundaram, Gothamist, August 31, 2025

• ‘It’s happening everywhere’: 1 in 3 ICE detainees held in overcrowded facilities, data show (archived), by Andrea Castillo and Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee, LA Times, August 29, 2025

• Deportations reach new high after summer surge in immigration arrests (archived), by Albert Sun, New York Times, August 21, 2025

• Immigration arrests have quintupled in Denver under Trump (archived), by Kevin Beaty, Denverite, August 20, 2025

• Texas jails see 30% more ICE holds under Trump. (archived), by Yilun Cheng, Matt Zdun and Ava Hu, Houston Chronicle, August 18, 2025

• ICE is deporting 1000s with minor offenses from traffic violations to weed (archived), by Christie Thompson and Anna Flagg, The Marshall Project, August 15, 2025

• Cuban migrants, more vulnerable than ever, fear limbo at Alligator Alcatraz (archived), by Shirsho Dasgupta, Ana Ceballos, Ben Wieder, Syra Ortiz Blanes and Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, August 15, 2025

• Anti-profiling court order cuts LA ICE arrests by 66 percent (archived), by David J. Bier, Cato Institute, August 14, 2025

• ICE arrests decline in July, immigrants with no criminal history still largest group (Part 5) (archived), by Austin Kocher, Substack, August 12, 2025

• Judge orders ICE to improve squalid Manhattan lockup conditions (archived), by Gwynne Hogan and Haidee Chu, The City, August 12, 2025

• NYC is the nation’s capital of immigration courthouse arrests, new data analysis shows (archived), by Haidee Chu and Gwynne Hogan, The City, August 11, 2025

• ICE book-ins closely match immigration arrests from Deportation Data Project (Part 4), by Austin Kocher, Substack, August 8, 2025

• One in five ICE arrests are Latinos on the streets with no criminal past or removal order (archived), by David J. Bier, Cato Institute, August 5, 2025

• 2,123 lives: inside the stats and stories of those arrested by ICE from the S.F. area (archived), by Kelly Waldron and Frankie Solinsky Duryea, Mission Local, July 30, 2025

• Hiding in plain sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump (archived), by Jacob Kang-Brown, Prison Policy Initiative, July 30, 2025

• Trump administration plans to deport immigrants to third countries, raising human rights concerns (archived), by Nick Turse, The Intercept, July 29, 2025

• Trump boasts of deporting the ‘worst of the worst.’ L.A. raids tell a far different story (archived), by Jenny Jarvie and Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee, Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2025

• Who is ICE arresting? A data-driven analysis (archived), by Chloe East and Elizabeth Cox, Immigration Research, July 23, 2025

• How Trump has supercharged the immigration crackdown - in data (archived), by Maanvi Singh, Will Craft and Andrew Witherspoon, The Guardian, July 23, 2025

• ‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos expose ICE lock-up inside 26 Federal Plaza (archived), by Gwynne Hogan and Haidee Chu, The City, July 22, 2025

• ICE’s child catching in charts, by Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times, July 17, 2025

• Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry, by Lucy Rodgers, Nassos Stylianou, Irene de la Torre Arenas, Jana Tauschinski, Sam Learner, Daniel Clark, Sam Joiner and Gaku Ito, Financial Times, July 15, 2025

• ICE arrests surge in May and June driven by immigrants with no criminal history (Part 3) (archived), by Austin Kocher, Substack, July 15, 2025

• ICE increasingly targets undocumented migrants with no criminal record (archived), by Emmanuel Martinez, Marianne LeVine and Álvaro Valiño, The Washington Post, July 3, 2025

• Sharpest growth in ICE detention population is among people with no criminal convictions (archived), by Jasmine Garsd, NPR, July 3, 2025

• Immigration crackdown ripples through economy (archived), by Emily Peck, Axios, July 2, 2025

• Trump vowed to deport the ‘worst of the worst’ — but new data shows a shift to also arresting non-criminals (archived), by Laura Romero, Armando Garcia and Frank Esposito, ABC News, July 1, 2025

• ICE detentions of non-criminal immigrants spike; about 8 % have violent convictions, analysis shows (archived), by Julia Ingram, CBS News, June 30, 2025

• ‘It’s a prison’: Asylum seekers in Houston detention centers face longer stays, no clear answers (archived), by Sam González Kelly and Ava Hu, Houston Chronicle, June 29, 2025

• ICE arrests have risen sharply in every state since Trump. Here are the numbers. (archived), by Albert Sun, The New York Times, June 27, 2025

• ICE set to arrest a record 35,000 immigrants in June; daily quotas are political – not practical (Part 2) (archived), by Austin Kocher, Substack, June 25, 2025

• A close look at ICE arrest data from the Deportation Data Project (Part 1) (archived), by Austin Kocher, Substack, June 25, 2025

• Most nabbed in L.A. raids were men with no criminal conviction, picked up off the street (archived), by Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2025

• How Trump has targeted new groups for deportation (archived), by Ashley Wu and Albert Sun, The New York Times, May 21, 2025

• Addicted to ICE (archived), by Rachel Adams-Heard, Polly Mosendz and Fola Akinnibi, Bloomberg, May 12, 2025

• The rising cost of ICE flying immigrants to far-flung detention centers (archived), by Leon Yin, Elena Mejía, Rachel Adams-Heard and Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg, May 1, 2025

• ICE chief thinks deportation system should be run like Amazon Prime ‘but with human beings’ (archived), by Graig Graziosi, The Independent, April 9, 2025

• As deportations ramp up, immigrants increasingly fear ICE check-ins: ‘All bets are off’ (archived), by Maanvi Singh and Will Craft, The Guardian, April 6, 2025

• Trump touted these ICE arrests. Half were already in prison. (archived), by Maria Sacchetti and Artur Galocha, The Washington Post, April 3, 2025