Spanish-language reporter in Tennessee is released from immigration detention on bond

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet in Tennessee who contends she was wrongly held in detention for more than two weeks was released Thursday after paying a bond recently allowed by a judge, her attorneys said. Estefany Rodríguez Flórez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias who has done stories critical of U.S. … Read more

Last protester in immigration detention after Trump’s campus crackdown has been released

ALVARADO, Texas — A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration’s 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses was freed Monday after a year in custody. Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in … Read more

Jury finds defendants guilty of terrorism-related charges in attack on Prairieland ICE detention center

Eight defendants were found guilty Friday of providing material support to terrorists for their roles in the alleged antifa attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center in 2025, marking one of the most sweeping terrorism-related convictions in the case to date.  The verdicts come as nine defendants stood accused in the alleged July 4, 2025, … Read more

Asylum-seekers increasingly face detention while their cases proceed, in a departure from the past

Asylum-seekers with no criminal records are being detained around the country as the Trump administration seeks to remove immigrants looking for legal pathways to remain in the United States. The move is a major departure from previous practice, under which asylum applicants were allowed to work and build lives in U.S. communities as their cases … Read more

‘This place broke something in us’: Kids languish in ICE detention long past 20-day court limit

Soon after immigration officials arrested him along with his wife and kids at the U.S. border and dropped them off at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, Aleksei began counting down the days. “OK, 20 days. We just wait and pray for God to release us please after these 20 days.” The U.S. … Read more

Fort Bliss detention center to get new operator after scrutiny

The Trump administration plans to tap a major engineering and electronic services company to run the country’s largest immigration detention center, where one detainee was killed and two others have died. The Department of Homeland Security intends to award the no-bid contract to run Camp East Montana and manage its detainees to Chantilly, Virginia-based Amentum … Read more

EXCLUSIVE: ICE says El Paso detention facility will stay open under new contractor after $1.2B deal scrapped

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas will remain open and is undergoing an operational upgrade, Fox News Digital has learned. “Camp East Montana is NOT closing, quite the opposite,” an ICE spokesperson exclusively told Fox News Digital Tuesday. “Rather, … Read more

US designates Afghanistan as a sponsor of wrongful detention

WASHINGTON — The State Department on Monday designated Afghanistan as a sponsor of wrongful detention as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations separately called out the country for engaging in what he said was “hostage diplomacy.” With the designation, Afghanistan joins Iran as countries singled out by the U.S. in the past two weeks … Read more

Trump administration designates Afghanistan as a state sponsor of wrongful detention

Secretary of State Marco Rubio formally designated Afghanistan as a state sponsor of wrongful detention on Monday, paving the way for the Trump administration to impose restrictions such as sanctions and export controls as punishment for the Taliban’s arbitrary imprisonment of Americans.  The designation allows for powers created by an executive order in September to … Read more