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News Articles: ICE detention

Churchgoers pray during service at the Evangelical church Sunday, May 11, 2025, in Tampa, Florida. The service focused on celebrating the mothers in attendance, as well as Maurilio Ambrocio's continued detention in an immigration facility. 

(Lexi Parra for NPR)

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  • USPS

In Florida, an immigrant pastor's detention sends a community reeling

In one weekend in May, more than a 1,000 immigrants were arrested in Florida. The massive crackdown has Trump supporters asking why their neighbors were detained and must be deported.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
A friend of Ximena Arias-Cristobal's family holds up a sign plastered with several photos of the 19-year-old, during a protest against the detainment of her and her father, Jose Arias-Tovar, in Dalton on May 14, 2025. Arias-Cristobal was arrested by local police during a traffic stop and sent to an ICE detention center in South Georgia shortly after, because she does not have valid U.S. citizenship.

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  • Politics

In Dalton, a community rallies for the release of student detained by immigration officials

Local charges against Ximena Arias-Cristobal have been dropped, but she remains in a South Georgia detention center.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Sarah Kallis
Rümeysa Öztürk (center) after being released from ICE custody Friday evening. Accompanied by Nora Ahmed, legal director of the ACLU of Louisiana (left) and  Öztürk's attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai (right).

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  • USPS

Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk freed from immigration detention

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.

May 09, 2025
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  • Adrian Florido
The Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, where ICE says Marie Ange Blaise was declared dead on Friday evening.

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  • National

Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center

ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

May 01, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Jessica Rodriguez Aguilar is a U.S. citizen. She told NPR during a routine immigration visit, her husband Josue (right) was detained. Lawyers are warning their clients that they are increasingly seeing clients detained at scheduled court hearings and immigration check-ins.

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  • Law

Lawyers warn clients of increased arrest risk at immigration check-ins

Immigration attorneys are advising clients who have deportation orders when they show up at court dates and immigration appointments, there is an increased risk of getting detained.

April 24, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd
Three students will return to Sackets Harbor Central School after their community in northern New York called for authorities to release the family, arrested by federal agents in late March.<br>

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  • National

'We love them': Small N.Y. town embraces a family freed from immigration detention

"I get goose bumps," said school principal Jamie Cook, thinking about the community rallying to support the family. The three students and their mother were arrested by immigration agents.

April 08, 2025
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  • Bill Chappell
Signage and flowers are placed on a tree next to where ICE agents apprehended Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Öztürk on March 25 in Somerville, Mass.

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  • National

Legal scholar sees immigrant arrests as a 'struggle for the soul of the country'

As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., professor Daniel Kanstroom discusses the law — and the human cost. He says the round-ups are designed to "send a message."

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
A security guard stands in front of the St. John's Community Health clinic in South Los Angeles.

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  • Health

Health care workers are rushing to learn about immigration law in case of ICE raids

A policy change by the Trump administration allows immigration agents to enter and arrest people in health facilities. Some clinics are training health workers to support patients in the event of arrests.

February 25, 2025
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By:
  • Jackie Fortiér
The Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado currently holds more than 600 immigrant detainees on behalf of the federal government. The facility is operated by GEO Group, a for-profit government contractor.

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  • Investigations

ICE releases investigation into immigrant's death after months of 'inexcusable' delay

Under pressure, the government released a report examining the death of an immigrant in ICE custody. The report found multiple failures, but did not indicate they caused the migrant's death.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Immigrants in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use the phones at a detention center in California in 2019. Secret government reports obtained by NPR described "negligent," "barbaric" and "filthy" conditions in ICE detention.

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  • Investigations

A 'shocking' 911 call and other key takeaways from NPR's ICE detention investigation

NPR obtained secret government inspection reports, which described "negligent," "barbaric" and "filthy" conditions inside immigration detention facilities. Here's what to know.

August 24, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Immigrants await processing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Adelanto, California. By filing a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, NPR obtained a trove of inspection reports detailing serious problems at this ICE facility and others across the United States.

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  • Investigations

Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention

Inspectors for the Department of Homeland Security found dangerous problems in immigration detention facilities. For years, the government fought NPR's efforts to obtain its often damning reports.

August 16, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach

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