The newly signed Secure America Act injects a massive $69.5 billion into federal immigration enforcement through 2029. By bypassing the traditional appropriations process, the bill grants ICE and CBP unprecedented funding with minimal congressional oversight, giving the agencies sweeping flexibility to ramp up deportations and state-level enforcement.
Welcome to the weekly segment called This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers! I’ll highlight some of the main takeaways from the week’s news that you might have missed, but do it in a unique way. Rather than try to summarize everything, I’ll pick a handful of figures each week that best capture where things are moving, explain why they matter, and provide a source where you can learn more. If you have a number to add to the mix or have a question about any of the numbers here, let me know in the comments.
This Quixote Center report reviews the conditions causing a hunger strike to take off at Delaney Hall Detention center in Newark. From Rotten, moldey and maggot infested food that is served to detained children and adults to shattered infrastructure and cancer patient medication on tylenol this report exposes the deliberate profit over dignity policy resulting in a statewide occurence of detention conditions resembling the ones in the Delaney Hall Detention Center.
People of faith, interfaith clergy, and allies will gather in prayer, song and reflection outside the Core civic ICE prison to demand that all its detained immigrants and asylum seekers receive their due process rights and have spiritual counsel while detained.
Between May 23 and May 30, communities across Ohio are coming together for a statewide week of interfaith vigils in solidarity with people held in civil immigration detention (a.k.a. ICE jail). Faith leaders, organizers, and community members will raise their voices, hold space for reflection, and stand in collective action. This coordinated week of action calls for:
An end to ICE detention
Transparency on detention facility funding
An end to 287(g) agreements
https://ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/5/19/interfaith-vigils-at-all-six-ic...
Join us Saturday morning, via Zoom, May 30th (10:30 am to Noon) when we will discuss the above revelatory book, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery.
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Detainees in Newark's detention center, Delaney Hall, are subject to work grueling jobs for only 1 dollar a day, if they are even paid at all. Despite the many demands for change, the GEO group refuses to take any action to improve the work conditions in Delaney Hall. This mistreatment has led to a labor and hunger strike of 300 migrants within the detention center. With the strike in effect, the guards have imposed both physical and mental torture to those imprisoned. When these conditions were revealed to the public through a letter by the migrants, a group of protesters gathered around Delaney Hall; they are still continuing their efforts to have the workers' conditions improved.
Join Like-Minded (Lake and Geauga Counties) and others for a vigil at the Geauga County ICE Detention Facility on May 28 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM as part of the statewide Week of Interfaith Vigils across Ohio.
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President Trump's deportation demands throughout his second term in office have caused an 80 percent increase in deportation flights, leading to mass carbon dioxide emissions. ICE's flight operations have accelerated the already imminent climate crisis. In fact, there was an 88 percent increase in ICE flight emissions from 2024 to 2025. In addition to the harmful impact on the environment, ICE imposes dangerous tactics to the detainees on board; they are often chained or placed in body-restraint suits. After the suffering endured while in flight, ICE has been sending detainees to cities and countries that are dangerous and are known to pose a threat to them upon arrival.
Join us to learn more about struggles for community self-determination and subsistence in southern Honduras, demands for corporate accountability, an end to ISDS, and the need for real energy democracy and climate justice.
