The entrance of the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center in the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on August 3, 2025. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Reuters) Florida is expected to wind down its “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility sometime this summer, according to a source familiar with the planning. Vendors at the site were told Tuesday that detainees will be removed by “the start of” June and the center will be dismantled in the fo
Order comes after seven people in California City facility allege they were denied medications, food and sanitation The California City detention facility in Kern County on 10 July 2025. [Patrick T Fallon|AFP|Getty Images] The US government must provide detainees at a California immigration detention center with adequate medical care, access to attorneys, and “temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets”, a federal judge has ruled. The order came on Tuesday in response to
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it. More and more news reports are popping up, describing warehouses the administration is acquiring, with plans to convert them to detention facilities. ICE has spent nearly three-quarter of a billion dollars acquiring these formerly commercial sites. And that’s in addition to other places, like the tent city Camp East Montana, already operating around the country. Before the election, Donald Trump said he
Renee Nicole Good was an award-winning poet/Photo Credit: BBC The woman shot dead by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city. She was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, who city leaders have said was there as a legal observer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. But the Trump administration has called her a "domestic terrorist". Good's death h
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the mayor described as reckless and unnecessary. The 37-year-old woman was shot in front of a family member during a traffic stop in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, ju
Rebecca Firestone submitted this open letter following her July 3 resignation from Cisco where she was employed for 3.5 years as a Senior Technical Writer. Photo captured by Rebecca Firestone at the NYC World Holocaust Remembrance Day teach-in on January 27, 2024 where UN experts presented evidence on Israel’s genocide in Palestine. [Medium] The following article is an expanded version of Rebecca’s LinkedIn post from Sunday, July 13, 2025. July 3, 2025 was my last day at Cisc