This week, Vera updated its ICE Detention Trends dashboard with new data through early August 2026. The interactive dashboard includes Vera’s analysis of millions of detention history records spanning from October 1, 2008, through August 5, 2026. The ICE detention data were obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, announced yesterday the appointment of 35 new immigration judges and 3 temporary immigration judges. This group of new hires follows previous large classes sworn in earlier in 2026 as part of an ongoing mass
Investigation by Pro Publica finds that jails are keeping immigrants detained for longer than the 72 hours allowed by law. Specifically, looking at rebookings in Florida jails, Pro Publica found that rebookings were being used to unlawfully extend detention times beyond 72 hours. In Orlando, the Orange County Jail rebooked
The Immigration Article of the Day is "Does unauthorized immigration drive community crime rates? Evidence from 11,500 U.S. neighborhoods," by Charis E. Kubrin, Derek Christopher, Cheyenne Hodgen, Xiaoshuang Iris Luo, and John R. Hipp. The article was published this month in the Journal of Urban Affairs
The Immigration Article of the Day is “The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Minors in US Immigration Court: Rurality, Resources, & Client Characteristics as Determinants of Access to Counsel,” just published in Law & Social Inquiry, by Chiara Galli and Tatiana Padilla. Here is the abstract: Despite their status as a
Despite rising levels of migration restriction worldwide, a new poll finds that people worldwide have high levels of support for refugee protection. The poll surveyed over 20,000 adults in 29 countries and found that two-thirds of those who participated in the poll "agreed that people in danger should
As reported earlier on the ImmProf Blog, the Spanish government has approved an extraordinary administrative regularization program for migrants already residing in Spain. The program is designed to provide lawful status for those present in Spain prior to January 1, 2026 who can show at least five months of residency
The EUobserver reports that a group of 19 EU leaders are supporting foreign deportation centers that would accept asylum applicants who are rejected, along the lines of Italy's collaboration with Albania. The leaders have signed a public letter and are from: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum enters into force today. The Pact, which was signed into law in 2024, will significantly reform the EU asylum system. The new border screening process is expected to increase detention and turn-backs at the border. According to the European Commission’s third report
The Immigration Article of the Day is Between A (Limestone) Rock and a Hard Place: Class Certification in Suits Alleging Pattern Or-Practice FOIA Violations on Immigration Records Requests by Narintohn Luangrath, just published in the Harvard C.R.-C.L. Law Review. Here is the abstract: An Alien File (“A-File”
The Institute to End Mass Incarceration has a new resource developed in conjunction with their Exposing Prisons Project. The tool is an interactive map that includes prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities in the U.S. Filters allow you to explore specific facilities, including isolating ICE detention and contract facilities,
This week, the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) released new data on GitHub that track people in detention and on "Alternatives to Detention" (ATD), as reported by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE). Vera created these datasets from more than 100 ICE reports that Vera has downloaded