Immigration enforcement, detention, court rulings and the communities affected by shifting federal policy.
More than 50 detainees, including Russian citizens, are planning to launch a hunger strike this week to protest what they have described as unbearably harsh conditions at one of the largest U.S. immigration detention centers, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The American Civil Liberties Union and several other immigrants’ rights advocates sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security Thursday condemning “deplorable” conditions inside the Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga.
Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old Peruvian national, died early Tuesday morning at a hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, after facility personnel found him in medical distress inside Richwood Correctional Center the evening before.
That’s according to Western New York Rep. Tim Kennedy, who released a letter from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday.
Since September 15, anyone searching ICE’s public database for thousands of detained immigrants has found nothing.
The recently concluded federal fiscal year has been recorded as the most fatal for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): 37 individuals died while in the agency’s custody between October 2025 and September 2026.
A Michigan nurse has been charged with a federal misdemeanor after authorities alleged she helped an injured immigration detainee leave a hospital while he was in federal custody, according to court filings.
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