Overview

• ICE has ramped up daily detentions to about 56,000 undocumented immigrants under the new directive, with millions more expected to remain in custody without bond hearings.
• Congress approved a $45 billion package to expand ICE’s bed capacity to 100,000 per day, backing the agency’s high-volume enforcement strategy.
• Internal data show that nearly 72 percent of those held as of late June had no criminal convictions, underscoring concerns over sweeping non-criminal detentions.
• Lawyers and state judges in jurisdictions from New York to Washington have filed lawsuits challenging the policy as a violation of due-process rights.
• Recent raids, including a California cannabis-farm operation that led to a worker’s fatal fall, have provoked community protests and scrutiny of ICE tactics.