DHS claims it has deported 622,000 people under Trump—but the data doesn’t add up. This analysis breaks down ICE and DHS numbers to explain why the headline figure may be misleading, incomparable, or meaningless without transparency.
Austin Kocher maps deaths in ICE detention.
This article by the American Immigration Council provides overview on the newest detention expansion. Today there are approximately 73,000 people in immigration detention, the highest in the history of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). More than 90 percent of people in ICE detention are held in privately-run immigrant detention centers.
While Trump's imperial endeavours in Venezuela and aspirations to extract gain from other countries within the Western Hemisphere such as Mexico, Colombia and Panama, Nicaragua seems to be broadly ignored by the White House. This article by Politico explains how the co-presidents of Nicaragua (labeled by many critics as dictators) manage to evade US interference and why the administration hasn't focused on Nicaragua yet.
Admist media attention being drawn to trumps "war on drugs" and his interference in Venezuela, a regime change operation in Honduras and the pardoning of its former president --a convicted criminal, drug trafficker--is overshadowed. This article gives insight on how the elections went (November 30 2025) and which parties were involved with not only influencing elections but the broader political landscape in Honduras.
This article by InSight Crime reviews the conspiratorial nature of the Berta Cáceres murder ten years ago. In February 2025, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights announced the creation of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes – GIEI) responsible for producing this report. ary 2025 The report’s investigators tied one deposit in the amount of $2.6 million that development banks made to the account of CONCASA (a shell company) in December 2015 directly to Cáceres’ murderers.
Drawing on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., FOR an Religious Peace Fellowship oppose the U.S. attack on Venezuela, urging nonviolent engagement, humanitarian solidarity, and an end to imperial military interventions.
A sharp reflection on how U.S. officials have long responded to state violence by blaming the dead—-from the murder of churchwomen in El Salvador to the killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE—-and a warning that such lies can only hold for so long.
A new report by Austin Kocher evaluating the latest ICE detention data gives insight on ICE's methodolgy and schemes . The Trump administration continues to represent aggressive immigration enforcement practices across the country as necessary to address threats to national security and public safety. The available data so far do not support these claims. There are periods of tremendous surges in the growth of non-criminal detainees, and, except for the beginning of last February (2025), no corresponding surge in the detention of people with criminal convictions.
The Trump administration aims to send thousands of immigrants to the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center where fifteen men remain in indefinite detention, 24 years since the abusive and torture prison opened.
Congress can step up and assert its authroity. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia has introduced resolutions in the Senate seeking information on the human rights practices of six countries to which the U.S. has reportedly deported immigrants who have no ties to those countries. Using a process under Section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act, a US senator can force debate and a vote to scrutinize and restrict security aid to countries engaging in “gross violations of human rights,” requiring the State Department to report on these issues.
Even if the resolutions fail, they allow senators to raise concerns on the floor about sending immigrants to places where they may be tortured. NRCAT has issued an action alert urging supporters to contact their senators about it.
