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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 1d

Very helpful visuals of ICE's enormous expansion due to the BBB by @motherjones.com : www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 4d

www.npr.org/2025/10/06/g...

Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations

After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 9d

Just filed!!

ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for refusing to comply with our FOIA request for information about the agency's plans for expanding immigration detention in the D.C. region.

We have a right to know how our taxpayer dollars are being used to fund ICE's abusive detention machine.

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NPR @npr.org · 18d

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 20d

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 23d

Detention conditions litigation does not directly curb ICE enforcement, but it can pose important restrictions on ICE's capacity to arrest immigrants.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/n...

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 23d

We won!!

ACLU @aclu.org · 23d

BREAKING: A court ruled that ICE can no longer detain immigrants in abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza while our case continues.

This ruling requires ICE to provide people detained at the facility access to hygiene products, sleeping mats, and free, confidential calls to their lawyers.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 25d

NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

The death of Estela Ramos Baten

Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother Estela were deported after a routine check-in. Two months later, Estela was buried with Guatemalan and U.S. flags draped over her coffin.

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 25d

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

FBI investigating death of Canadian man detained by ICE in Florida

Johnny Noviello, 49, was found unresponsive by prison staff on June 23

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Opinion | The troubling rise of inhumane detention centers

Immigration enforcement can be aggressive without being cruel.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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ACLU @aclu.org · Sep 8

To expand immigrant detention the Trump administration plans to reopen at least three facilities that were shut down over concerns about violence, medical abuse, and systemic understaffing.

A federal judge characterized one facility as "an absolute hell hole."

Riots and abuse troubled these former prisons. ICE plans to reopen them.

The same operators that closed facilities plan to reopen them to hold immigrants. Advocates say that puts detainees at risk of violence and mistreatment.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump: “Invest in 🇺🇸!”

Also Trump:

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · Sep 7

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Riots and abuse troubled these former prisons. ICE plans to reopen them.

The same operators that closed facilities plan to reopen them to hold immigrants. Advocates say that puts detainees at risk of violence and mistreatment.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

ICE Opens Immigrant Detention Center in Notorious Louisiana Prison

www.nytimes.com

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · Sep 2

ICE wants more detention space and it’s faster to re-open old facilities to hold immigrants than to build new ones. Enter: ZOMBIE PRISONS

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/29/m...

‘Zombie Prisons’: How ICE Detention Is Raising Troubling Facilities From the Dead

ICE needs more detention space, and it’s faster to open old facilities than to build new ones.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · Sep 2

The ACLU's @eunicehcho.bsky.social said said private companies & local economies have financial incentives to keep filling cells they already spent money creating. We see that in how empty prisons are being reused by ICE: “How can we imagine ways to actually shutter these facilities for good?”

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · Aug 29

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/29/m...

‘Zombie Prisons’: How ICE Detention Is Raising Troubling Facilities From the Dead

ICE needs more detention space, and it’s faster to open old facilities than to build new ones.

www.themarshallproject.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 29

Don’t look away

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · Aug 25

🚨 ACTIVE CHECKPOINT ALERT 🚨 Reports have been made of an active checkpoint at 3300 block Sherman Ave NW in Columbia Heights, Ward 1 as of today August 24 at 8:55pm. Avoid the area if possible!! 1/

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · Aug 22

The @aclu.org's @eunicehcho.bsky.social on state's partnering with ICE to build giant detention centers using 287(g) agreements: “It’s absolutely unprecedented”

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/22/f...

What Alligator Alcatraz Portends for State Prisons

Plans to use Indiana’s “Speedway Slammer,” Louisiana’s Angola and other state prisons to house ICE detainees raise problematic questions, attorneys say.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Aug 20

ICE received ten times more in Congressional funding under Trump than it did last year.

The agency plans to use the money to expand the size of immigrant detention to eclipse the current federal prison system, says @aclu.org lawyer @eunicehcho.bsky.social.

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.democracynow.org/2025/8/20/ac...

“Unprecedented and Not Normal”: ACLU Sues over Legal Black Hole at “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE Jail

We speak with ACLU lawyer Eunice Cho about a new federal lawsuit brought on behalf of immigrants held at the detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The detainees alleg...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 15

By January, ICE will have the capacity to hold more than 107,000 people, internal agency documents show.

The documents outline the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion.

ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this year

Internal documents reveal ICE’s plans to double immigrant detention to more than 100,000 beds, including new detention centers for families.

www.washingtonpost.com

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