IRTF News

This article details how the second Trump administration's mass deportation campaign has dramatically increased the detention and removal rates of immigrants who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors, often rolling back legal protections previously granted to them. Through the lens of 18-year-old Elder Chavez and other detained youth, it highlights the rapid-fire deportation orders in immigration courts, the harsh conditions within detention centers, and the growing pushback from federal judges and legal advocates.

New analysis and firsthand accounts reveal the toll of the crackdown on immigrant communities in L.A. County and beyond. Thousands of people detained during the height of the raids remain in immigration custody or have already been deported.

Starting in May, immigration attorneys began reporting that they were arriving at immigration court to find judges’ dockets packed with over 100 hearings scheduled in a single morning—a phenomenon that quickly became known as “mega master calendar hearings,” ...

Human rights groups and defense attorneys are demanding the immediate release of Salvadoran opposition leaders, noting that the state's investigation deadline expires on June 14 with absolutely no evidence presented after two years of detention.

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.

Mamuka was not a public safety threat, may not have broken a single law, couldn't be deported, and shouldn't have been arrested. ICE forced taxpayers to pay $18,000 detaining him anyway.