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ICE Insider is a Muckrock project lookin' to break news on the immigration beat with a particular focus on the Enforcement and Removals division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Federal Register publishes final rule on changes to Flores Settlement Agreement

by Beryl Lipton

August 23, 2019

Changes to the detention of non-citizen minors and families entered the Federal Register today, despite tens of thousands of public comments in opposition to the changes and serious concerns about its effects on migrant families and children.

Homeland Security IG can’t compel safer immigration detention facilities fast enough

by Beryl Lipton

July 31, 2019

MuckRock wants to learn more about the operations of these immigration detention facilities, private and public. If you’re a group local to a facility and want to help our effort, let us know.

This week’s FOIA round-up: Judge rules that Trump’s transition team emails are not subject to release under FOIA, and ICE’s internal documents show tactics, arrest quotas

by Shafaq Patel (@shafaqpatel)

July 05, 2019

In this week’s FOIA round-up, a federal judge ruled that Trump transition team emails are not subject to release, documents reveal years of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid tactics, and a recently released report showed federal agents feared riots by migrants who were being held in overcrowded and unsanitary cells. Meanwhile, in Montana, the state supreme court ruled that a university player’s privacy rights as a student outweigh the public’s right to know.

And belated happy birthday to FOIA, signed 53 years ago this week by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966.

Private prisons face new challenges as states move to limit ICE operations

by Beryl Lipton

June 25, 2019

Last Friday, lawmakers made two major moves in challenging the use of privately-owned detention centers and prisons in the United States.

Bureau of Prisons announces over $1 billion in contracts for Texas private prison

by Beryl Lipton

May 08, 2019

The Bureau of Prisons has announced four awards related to its operations at the Reeves County Detention Complex in Texas. In total, the agreements are worth more than $1.3 billion over the life of the contracts, which could remain active for up to ten years.