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Find out more about these heartbreaking stories and the data behind them in our new report with @shannonheffernan.bsky.social at @themarshallproject.org and @kaybguerrero.bsky.social and @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social at @ms.now: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/09/b...
Trump Has Put 500 Babies and Toddlers In Immigration Jails
Young children in detention stopped eating, began hitting themselves and became ill, according to parents.
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Kaleth and Amir have since been released, and are doing better now. Still, experts said, it’s too early to tell what long-term harm awaits the over 500 babies and toddlers who ICE has detained so far under Trump. Pediatrician Marsha Griffin said: "Our immigration system is breaking children."
We talked to 1-year-old Amir's family, who told us about spending four months at the Dilley facility, where Amir's speech development slowed drastically. Previously a lively and outgoing kid, Amir eventually stopped saying anything other than two words: “mom” and “dad.”
We talked to the family of 2-year-old Kaleth, who stopped eating solid food for nearly 2 weeks while he was in ICE custody at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.
The first few years of life are pivotal for brain development, with 1 million neural connections made per second, faster than at any other age. Negative experiences at this time can have disproportionate effects, potentially damaging a child's physical and mental health for the rest of their lives.
Many of the young children were held for prolonged periods of time, including at least 175 babies and toddlers who spent more than 20 days in custody –– which is the court limit for how long children can be held. In the previous year under Biden, no very young children were held that long.
Under Trump, 25 children aged three and younger are in ICE detention on an average day. That's up 10x since the previous year under Biden, when the average per day was fewer than 3.
New @themarshallproject.org @ms.now report shows since Trump returned to office, ICE has taken a total of more than 500 babies and toddlers into custody: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/09/b...
Trump Has Put 500 Babies and Toddlers In Immigration Jails
Young children in detention stopped eating, began hitting themselves and became ill, according to parents.
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Yesterday, our members chanted and marched through @propublica.org’s NYC office demanding a fair contract now. We delivered a stack of more than 4,000 petition signatures and 300 comments from our supporters to management.
This is a drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. It says “I am 5 years old” at the top, and lower down is written “let us go.”
Data shows the number of kids being held in ICE detention on a given day has jumped over 6x since Trump took office. New @themarshallproject.org report: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...
Children in ICE Detention Skyrocket in Trump’s Second Term
With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.
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Read more in @shannonheffernan.bsky.social & my latest @themarshallproject.org report: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
“You have that spike around 20 [days] where they’re trying to hold people as much as possible,” said Scott Shuchart, former head of policy at ICE under Biden. “They want to be able to hold families indefinitely, and remove them or pressure them to give up.”
ICE says its goal is to “ensure that minors are discharged from custody as quickly as possible.” But data shows a spike in detentions around the 20-day limit, which experts say indicates that the government is choosing to hold families for prolonged periods to facilitate deportations.
New analysis shows at least 3,800 children and infants have been booked into ICE detention since Trump took office. At least 1,300 were detained 20 days or more, the court limit for how long children with families can be held: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
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Each year, about 6,000 people die in prisons and jails — numbers that experts believe are likely undercounts. Federal law requires local agencies to report in-custody deaths, but the mandate is not enforced. In many places, there’s no reliable public accounting of what happened or why.
Years After Her Son’s Death in Jail, She’s Still Seeking Answers. She’s Not Alone.
Jacilet Griffin is one of many nationwide left with grief and unanswered questions when a loved one dies behind bars.
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Today, we sent a letter to @themarshallproject.org leadership expressing concern about their denial of bargaining obligations. Management has repeatedly denied members Weingarten rights, engaged in an illegal layoff, and more — we need your help to demand that management bargain in good faith.
Thanks my fearless reporting partners Ilica Mahajan & @asankin.bsky.social for all their work in the last year. Thanks Rahim Fortune for incredible photos, Celina Fang for inspired art direction & Josie Norton for beautiful illos. Get in touch to share your thoughts about deaths in custody.
The official failure to adequately track these deaths puts enormous burdens on families. Jacilet Griffin's son Evan Lee died in a Texas jail in 2022; ever since, she's been a warrior for her family and others facing grief and lack of answers after a loved one's death behind bars.
Interviews with dozens of people from the Justice Department, law enforcement, Congress, research groups and advocacy showed that the federal government has simply never prioritized the DCRA law enough to build a workable system to track deaths in custody.
One of the law's requirements is to use the data to prevent future deaths in custody. But about 1 in 6 of the records didn't include manner of death. How can you figure out how to reduce deaths if you don't know how people are dying? More here with @wbur.org: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Marshall Project investigation explores why the government doesn't know how many people die in custody
Thousands of people die in custody each year, usually during an arrest or while incarcerated.
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We found hundreds of people who died in custody but weren't listed in the official data. The overwhelming majority of records didn't meet the Justice Department's standards for accuracy and completeness. Still, the DOJ has never once penalized a state for poor reporting.
One example of the problems plaguing the government's tracking of deaths in custody: an inadvertently leaked federal dataset showed that George Floyd's death—one of the most well-known cases of police use of force—is not called police use of force in the official records.
In 2000 the Death in Custody Reporting Act passed requiring the DOJ to track deaths in prisons, jails & police interactions. Why, 25 years later, does the U.S. government still not know how many people die in custody? *New @themarshallproject.org report*: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/07/d...
Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody?
Under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, the government is supposed to track how many people die in law enforcement custody — but the data is a mess.
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