And the FBI has (had?) task forces dedicated to supporting ICE HSI. Is this what a government run by a Big 4 consulting firm looks like?

Another 287(g) agreement was quietly removed by ICE yesterday: a Task Force partnership with the local PD in Stanton, Kentucky. The small town (just under 3,200 residents) sits outside the Red River Gorge area of the Daniel Boone National Forest in eastern KY.

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

I spoke to Michael Berk from The Ink about concentration camps, why they're happening in this moment, and how for more than a hundred years, people have had a really hard time believing their country would really do that. the.ink/p/american-g...

ICE is soliciting coworking space rentals for more than 300 personnel at roughly 90 locations nationwide, according to a draft Statement of Work posted to SAM.gov

Excuse me? One of the newest ICE partnerships is a 287(g) agreement with the local police department in Cut and Shoot, Texas. Or as listed by ICE: Cut "N" Shoot. I thought they had signed an agreement with a knockoff Bass Pro Shops 😂 @austinkocher.com

happening now: a group of interfaith leaders + immigrant/worker rights advocates are holding a press conference in evanston to demand a local real estate company scrap plans to lease a private prison to ice. the event is part of a nationwide day of action against chicago-based highlands reit.

Grateful for this reporting, but the public should not have to depend on the initiative of journalists to receive detainee facility population updates.

A history teacher???

Trump’s DOJ purged the Board of Immigration Appeals of anyone deemed too likely to vote in favor of an immigrant facing removal. The result has been a rubber stamp, one so obvious that the admin is actually trying to get rid of it almost entirely and just replace it with an automatic denial system.

And it's Friday so they're due to do something awful today. Eliminate continuances? Ban interpreters? Declare all hearings to now be in person in Guam?

SCOOP: Nashville Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Released From ICE Detention migrantinsider.com/p/breaking-n...

Great work by @gregsargent.bsky.social helping to sort this out, see response from Okla. superintendent below. BUT.. I'm not totally satisfied with this answer. The idea that ICE pulled the name of a school district in rural OK out of thin air and added it to the official 287g... dunno, vibe's off.

I...hmm. I have follow-up questions.

This from @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social is absolutely chilling. Even though the Trump admin stopped arresting refugees to be taken to Texas for interrogation, it’s still re-interviewing people. Now he’s revealing the depths of weaponization occurring in the system.

fed activity in chicago is no where near the level we saw last fall, but there has been a notable increase in activity over the past couple weeks. dhs also recently rented two new floors of an office building in suburban oakbrook terrace.

Something I keep coming back to from my conversation with @austinkocher.com yesterday about the first K-12 school system to join ICE's 287(g) program: Who, exactly, is making these decisions? substack.com/@austinkoche...

This story is still developing. Follow Andrew Thrasher's meticulous tracking of 287(g) at maxwellcommons.substack.com and listen to our full joint investigation at austinkocher.substack.com/p/does-ice-h...

This is especially alarming given that a significant share of Caney Valley students identify as Native American, a community that could face heightened scrutiny under any active immigration enforcement presence in schools.

The agreement was a Task Force Model, meaning school resource officers would have authority to proactively question people about immigration status. This is the first time a K-12 school system has ever appeared in 287(g) data.

The program has already expanded to agencies with no traditional immigration role: Florida Fish and Wildlife, state attorneys general offices, and at least 17 Florida college and university campus police departments.

ICYMI: On Monday, the first K-12 school system in the U.S. — Caney Valley Public Schools in Washington County, Oklahoma — was added to ICE’s list of active 287(g) program partners.

It’s March 19th, and 2026 is already the 7th deadliest year in ICE’s 20+ year history. More people have died in ICE custody since January 1st than in any full, 365-day calendar year from 2009 to 2019.

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

it really feels to me like the right has pushed the overton window in immigrant policing so much further right that now they are tacking back to "professionalization" to cement their gains and guard against reform.

Welp, CBP is back to its nighttime surveillance flights over us in Chicago.

Did we just see the first elementary school in the country sign onto a 287(g) agreement? Get the latest data and evidence in my conversation with Andrew Thrasher at 3 PM Eastern today. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

call me old fashioned but I don’t think anyone should have to trade for “no deporting US citizens” we should get that one for free you know

Immigration research still matters. I'm grateful to Brian Munoz at @stlpublicradio for interviewing me on 287(g) agreements, and to everyone who has been reading and sharing my work. Here's what we covered. 🧵

There's a metaphor here. And it's not the one the CPD officer is thinking of when he "saves" the flag.

We've reached a sad milestone in ICE's massive expansion of its 287(g) program partnerships with local law enforcement: the first K-12 school district to join. open.substack.com/pub/maxwellc...

41 people have died in ICE detention since January 2025. Twelve since January 1 alone, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I built a beta of an interactive map of detained deaths using ICE's own press releases. 🧵

While ICE violates Congressional reporting requirements on detention data, the agency has made consistent updates to its 287(g) program page. They've added 116 new agreements with local and state law enforcement agencies since February 12th, when ICE last published detention data.

fwiw: Total number of unique individuals booked into ICE detention between Jan-Oct over two separate years in the mid-2020s. Biden: Jan. 20 to Oct. 15, 2024 - Approx. 222,000 people Trump: Jan. 20 to Oct. 15, 2025 - Approx. 272,000 people An increase of about 23%.

Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal died at a hospital in Dallas, Texas yesterday, just a day after he was taken into ICE custody. He is the 12th person to die in ICE custody since January 1st, and the 24th since October 1st. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

11 U.S. service members died in the first three months of the war in Afghanistan, from Oct 7th to Dec 31st, 2001. Today's confirmation that all six individuals onboard the KC-135 tanker that crashed in Iraq have died brings us to 13 deaths in less than two weeks of our new war with Iran.

Alright chat, I’ve read far too many quotes recently from sheriffs that misrepresent how the 287(g) program works. A rant 🧵 sponsored by this interview with Sheriff Ben Sites in Franklin County, Pennsylvania — one of the 14 PA counties with an active agreement. tristatealert.com/with-all-the...

New page on our 287(g) program report! A map of the 39 canceled agreements since December 8th (when I started explicitly tracking the data removed from ICE's snapshot lists) — with breakdowns by level of government and program model ⤵️ lookerstudio.google.com/s/gvv9b8Aalw0

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

I don't know, kinda seems like having a drunken, emotional Christian Nationalist as defense secretary is bad. Also, can we discuss how his self-esteem issues are baked into everything he says? So much disdain for the literal hundreds of officers who were more qualified for his current role.

Yesterday, ICE added $619,000 to a contract with GEO Group to extend transportation and detention services at the Delaney Hall contract detention facility in Newark, N.J. ICE has paid GEO Group $58.6 million for detention services there since March 2025.

this means it is not open for transit

If I recall, Pete removed all the actual journalists from the Pentagon and replaced them with wax figures of Laura Loomer. And yet he's still ranting about a "patriotic press", now that he's realized they won't help cover up his war crimes.

You can't understand deportations without understanding immigration courts. And right now, those courts are in crisis with new rule changes that could make things significantly worse. 🧵

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

One of the biggest and least understood shifts in immigration enforcement isn't happening at the border. It's happening at your local sheriff's office. A thread on 287(g). 🧵

ICE confirms that the infamous Camp East Montana will NOT be shut down. Instead, they're giving the contract wholly to Amentum, previously the subcontractor for Acquisition Logistics, the tiny VA military contractor which inexplicably got a $1.2 billion contract. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

An easy fix that would actually help in demanding transparency from DHS and its component agencies? Require unique IDs for published data (🧵 ⤵️)

In his farewell address in 1961, President Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex. Sixty some years later, we're faced with a well-funded deportation and immigration detention industrial complex.