NEW: The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. It provides additional insight into the breadth of data that airlines like Delta, American and United were selling without their customers' knowledge, and that law enforcement agencies were tapping into, likely without a warrant.

The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide

The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.

404media.co

ICE didn't report the 7/24 death of Prisciliano Trejo Romano in Georgia, having released him shortly prior. He's not the only one.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 22h ago

Days before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

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Leavenworth, Kansas has been a site of fierce resistance by residents, advocates, and former CoreCivic employees, whose efforts delayed the reopening of a shuttered prison by nearly a year. Now the company has sold its facility there to the federal government for $238.4 million.

CoreCivic sells Leavenworth detention center to U.S. Department of Homeland Security

CoreCivic has sold the Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth to the United States government and the Department of Homeland Security.

kmbc.com

"Several years ago, Oregon’s former treasurer said attempting to force an index fund to divest from one stock would be difficult and could involve a financial penalty. How does that compare to the difficulties faced by Oregon residents hounded, abused and imprisoned by ICE?"

Readers respond: Divest PERS from ICE-contract prisons

Letters to the Editor can be submitted to letters@oregonian.com with full name and place of residence.

oregonlive.com

Children don't belong in prison, ever. This is state-sponsored child abuse.

ICE detention center staff taunted kids by eating candy in front of them: Democrat investigation

ICE’s main detention center where it holds families awaiting deportation is beset by a “culture of cruelty,” according to a report by a senior Senate Democrat who said migrants were made to wait for m...

washingtontimes.com

🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

Sold as a reform for mass incarceration just like body cams. I think there's a pattern.

Ted Hesson@tedhesson.bsky.social · 2d ago

ICE is beginning to outfit Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors after the Trump admin ended their deportation protections www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

ICE already has a program that forces immigrants to download a phone app and check in via face rec, so it’s really just a choice to tag people like animals.

Ted Hesson@tedhesson.bsky.social · 2d ago

ICE is beginning to outfit Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors after the Trump admin ended their deportation protections www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"The clip is brief and grainy, but shows him holding up a plastic bottle filled with water, which appeared to have small pests of some kind swimming inside."

ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures

‘Disturbing’ footage shared by California detainee surfaces amid wider complaints about conditions in ICE detention

theguardian.com

“There should be no doubt that this heartbreaking loss is the direct result of inhumane conditions perpetrated by GEO Group and the Trump admin. Delaney Hall must be shut down, and justice must be served on behalf of Edwin and every person whose life has been upended by the daily cruelty”

Senator Andrew Zwicker@andrewzwicker.bsky.social · 2d ago

Statement on the Death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo at Delaney Hall:

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

muellershewrote.com

ICE has killed another person.

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

thecityreporter.nyc

DHS pays a private contractor up to $915M to convince detained immigrants to "self-deport." Rival prison and deportation-flight companies are now fighting to take the contract away. Read our investigation https://www.pogo.org/investigates/dhs-contractors-battle-over-immigration-crackdown-profits

There's a nasty fight between DHS contractors battling each other over deportation dollars and accusing each other of benefitting from a rigged system. Caught in the middle are immigrants, as @dfriedman.bsky.social, Will Sytsma, and I detail www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle

"There is so much money right now in detaining people."

motherjones.com

Edwin López Cornejo died earlier this week in ICE custody at GEO Group's Delaney Hall. “He was an excellent son. He had a daughter. He was a good father. [...] And I have lost him at the hands of immigration.” — María Cornejo, Edwin's mother

The ICE Machine Claims Another Life: The Cruel, Preventable Death of Edwin Giovanni López Cornejo

08.03.2026

eyesonice.net

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

wired.com

A Phoenix man from Egypt has spent the last three months confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after ICE deported him there without warning. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

tucson.com

Anti-ICE advocates rallied outside the DHS office near Cincinnati after Haitians losing TPS were summoned for mandatory check-ins. Protesters report officials are fitting people with ankle monitors and issuing new court dates. Community members stand united against these aggressive tactics!

Advocates worry about what will happen to thousands of immigrant children who were set to lose their legal representation Saturday night wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/08/02/r...

Key legal resource for immigrant kids to expire with federal contract, advocates say • Wisconsin Examiner

Advocates worry about what will happen to thousands of immigrant children who set to lose their legal representation at midnight Saturday.

wisconsinexaminer.com

SOS International (SOSi), a company with ICE contracts to track down immigrants, is one of the 10 translation & interpretation providers tapped for a cooperative purchasing agreement by Sourcewell, which helps tens of thousands of nonprofits, schools, and governments bypass bidding processes. 🧵 1/3

A new resource catalogs Homeland Security’s massive arsenal of surveillance, data, and analytics tech, detailing how the tools are used and who supplies them: bit.ly/4wx8EZO

DHS’s Domestic Surveillance, Data Collection, and Analytics Tools

Fueled by a budget boom, the Department of Homeland Security is expanding its technological arsenal, with little oversight or transparency around how these tools are used.

brennancenter.org

How did a Boston developer mired in lawsuits, who is being chased down by creditors for tens of millions in debt, come to play a key role in securing billion-dollar deals for ICE? I wrote about the real estate moguls behind DHS's detention infrastructure buildout www.levernews.com/the-failed-d...

How Troubled Boston Developer James Grossmann Came To Broker ICE’s Billion-Dollar Prison Deals

As his construction empire collapsed under lawsuits and unpaid debts, James Grossmann found a lucrative new role in ICE’s multibillion-dollar detention buying spree.

levernews.com

SOSi helps ICE target immigrants. It shouldn't be getting contracts to provide translation & interpretation in hospitals, schools, and courtrooms across the country.

Boycott, Citizens@boycottcitizens.org · 4d ago

Sourcewell's Board is made up of elected local officials from MN. They have the power to terminate this contract with 30-60 days' notice, and they deserve to know who they're doing business with. Their email addresses and a message template are available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 8/8

🚨🚨 A company paid to help ICE target immigrants may also provide the interpreters your local hospital, school, or courtroom uses to communicate with them. Here's what to know. 1/8

"U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) spoke out about a Pentagon plan to strengthen coordination between the UN's Gang Suppression Task Force in Haiti and a private military contractor ... The contractor, Vectus Global, has conducted drone strikes that have killed dozens of Haitian civilians."

Truthout@truthout.org · last wk.

Mass arrests of Haitian immigrants could begin as early as this week, according to federal documents regarding Trump’s new directive to ICE following the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump could end deportation protections for the community.

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. Use our database (just updated!) to more easily search these organizations’ finances 👇

527 Explorer — ProPublica

Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars flow through little-known political organizations called 527s. Use our database to explore who funds these organizations and how they’re spending their mone...

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Brandon Roberts@bxroberts.org · 5d ago

I just published an update to our 527 Explorer of political nonprofits. We added over 500k new records since our last update in June. It's an election year, meaning I will be updating this every month until the election. Happy Friday! projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/

The anti-immigrant agenda runs on architects, engineers, tech companies, airlines, banks, and contractors as much as it runs on ICE agents. Seven times people shined a light on that hidden infrastructure, and slowed the machine: