ICE Detaining People in Hidden Sites Beyond Legal Time Limits

An investigation shows that ICE has used at least 170 holding sites, including inside 25 field offices. The sites are typically bare concrete rooms without beds and are meant for short-term processing.

ICE's own rules limited confinement to 12 hours, but in June they increased the limit to three days. However, people are being held for much longer in horrific conditions with no privacy, no legal counsel, no medical attention, and no oversight. They try to make the immigrants so miserable that they self-deport without any due process.