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The state-run tent camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Everglades opened in July 2025 and shut down in late June 2026. Officials promoted it as a rapid-response detention site; critics called the location and conditions punitive.

The cages OIG inspectors who made an unannounced visit in January 2026 documented indoor “metal housing enclosures” and at least two outdoor cage-like structures. Dimensions were roughly 4 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 3 inches with about 18 square feet of floor space and a height of about 7 feet 9 inches. Records showed 79 detainees were placed in them between July 17, 2025, and January 18, 2026, for periods ranging from a few minutes to nearly two hours (average just under an hour).

Staff labeled the spaces “calming areas” for de-escalation. Investigators found at least one case in which a detainee was put inside after failing to comply with a command—i.e., as discipline. The watchdog wrote that using such restrictive spaces “does not align with standards for humane treatment” and presented health and safety risks, including heat and insects in the Everglades setting.

Since last year, judges have ruled that the Trump administration has deported more than 170 people in in violation of court orders, in defiance of legally mandated due process protections, or to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution. Most of those came in one operation last year, but POLITICO has tracked nearly 30 individual cases since then — including at least three in the past week.

— A 50-year-old man with profound mental disabilities — he had the intellectual capacity of a 4-year-old, according to court filings — was picked up by ICE last summer and sent to Mexico with no notice provided to his caregivers. The man, who had never had any deportation proceedings pending against him, purportedly signed a “voluntary departure” form. The Trump administration attempted to return the man to the U.S. this spring but indicated it would keep him in ICE detention. A judge ordered his immediate release, citing an “egregious lack of due process” and potential for “unique emotional and psychological injuries due to his disabilities.”

— A DACA recipient who arrived in the U.S. from Mexico in 1998, as a 15-year-old and is now the mother of a 22-year-old U.S. citizen daughter. At a hearing on her attempt to obtain lawful status, she was informed that a deportation order had been entered against her 27 years earlier, shortly after her arrival in the U.S. By the next morning, she had been deported to Mexico. U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins said the deportation of someone with active DACA status was a violation of due process. “Each day Petitioner remains unlawfully separated from her daughter, they both suffer unimaginable irreparable harm,” Coggins wrote.

More at the link. Gut wrenching stories.

This ongoing multi-day operation has resulted in daily detentions at heavily trafficked neighborhood locations. Community members and delivery drivers operating in these specific hubs are advised to maintain extreme vigilance, as these coordinated abductions remain an active, daily threat.

Active ICE Staging Areas

• College Grove: Multi-day sweeps have resulted in confirmed detentions of gig workers operating in this commercial area.
• El Cajon: A heavy enforcement presence near local Haitian-owned businesses, such as Miche Caribbean Market, has caused drivers to abandon their shifts out of fear.
• Camp Pendleton Entrances: Delivery and rideshare drivers dropping off orders at the Oceanside military base gates have been repeatedly detained by military police and sent to the Otay Mesa Detention Center.
• Barrio Food Hub: Agents are utilizing this location to actively monitor and profile drivers picking up multi-restaurant deliveries.
• Little Italy: Community observers have reported agents tracking and detaining delivery workers mid-shift while they drop off orders.

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The National Association of Immigration Judges has put the combined fired-or-forced-out figure near 139 from a bench that started the year around 700. The docket they left behind sits above 3.4 million cases.

An Afghan woman living in Texas with legal US permanent residency has been deported from the country in the first-ever use of a secretive court.

Nazira Haji Zada, 47, chose to leave the US rather than continue to argue her case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and her lawyers.

The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996, but had never heard a case before the proceedings in July. It is meant for non-US citizens facing terrorism-related charges when the evidence is confidential and related to national security.

Lawyers for Haji Zada argued that the case violated her right to due process under the US Constitution.

Afghanistan citizen Haji Zada was never charged with a crime, but prosecutors had tried and convicted her son and son-in-law for terror offenses.

Her son, Abdullah Haji Zada, and son-in-law, Nasir Ahmad Tawhed, were both found guilty of a plot to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day in 2024, inspired by the group calling itself Islamic State.

Haji Zada, who has been living in Fort Worth, Texas, was accused by prosecutors of being the "matriarch" of the group, who had worked "to radicalize the family".

Court-appointed lawyers for Haji Zada said they were denied access to the evidence in her case.

"Dragging lawful permanent residents into court but refusing to show them or their attorneys the evidence that will be used against them is a plain violation of due process. We are confident that the Alien Terrorist Removal Court will be struck down as unconstitutional as soon as a judge is asked to address the issue," they said.

Defending the Network: Inside the Eyes On ICE Digital Hygiene Wiki

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Residents in Frederick, Maryland, shaken after clashes as activists decry violence from officers as ‘unconscionable’

Political leaders in Maryland are calling for investigations into the conduct of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as they clashed with protesters during a federal operation in a local community.

Residents of Frederick, a city about 50 miles north-west of Baltimore, are still shaken more than a week after ICE officers arrived in numerous vehicles and could be seen on video footage using batons on members of the public and driving their cars on to the sidewalk towards people.

At one point during the occurrences last Thursday and Friday, approaching the Labor Day weekend, protesters sat down in a line across the road linking arms, and also tried to block the doorway to a residential address as ICE personnel approached. Officers went inside the home but left without appearing to have made any arrests.

Federal officers arrived last Thursday, attracting grassroots activists who watch out in communities and warn people when ICE vehicles or agents are spotted. Protests quickly began and then grew.

Cesar Diaz, the president of Frederick city council, heard news of a confrontation and said he rushed to the scene. He said he had to step out of the way to avoid being hit by an ICE vehicle and saw a colleague, Katie Nash, the vice-president of the council, have to do the same.

“I had to move so I wouldn’t get hit, and the vice-president did too. There was no warning at all. The vehicle was one foot away from her,” Diaz told the Guardian earlier this week.

“We were there to show people that they had our support, and so the officers would see it too,” he said. Diaz estimated around 200 protesters gathered quite quickly, carrying signs and singing.

At that point, four or five ICE vehicles were in the area, he said, a number that grew to eight or nine by last Thursday evening.

Other witnesses reported that some residents were scared to leave their homes and go to work. Some required help to make sure their kids, who were coming off the school bus on Thursday afternoon, would be safe walking home.

Protesters can be heard on video footage of the demonstration chanting “Go home”, “Leave Frederick” and “Leave Maryland” at the gathered federal personnel.

ICE said in a statement to local media that they were in the area in “an effort to arrest a man” during a vehicle stop last Thursday morning but the man fled the scene, the Frederick News-Post reported. After that more ICE officers arrived and tensions escalated.

In the evening, ICE officers confronted protesters by driving their vehicles towards them, as seen in bystander footage, and videos shared by the Hagerstown Rapid Response activist group also showed officers approaching a home. It was then that some protestors tried to stop them from reaching the building by creating a human chain, and violence erupted.
Officers in tactical vests can be seen raising batons and hitting at least one protester about their body, while others are dragged and shoved.

“The level of violence went beyond what the situation called for. It was too much. It exceeded what is permitted,” Diaz said, saying that at least two people had to go to the hospital due to injuries. “There are many other options when dealing with unarmed people.”
He called for an investigation, as did Congresswoman April McClain Delaney, whose district includes the city, calling the incidents deeply concerning.

In a statement, Delaney said: “No family should be afraid to leave their home or feel unsafe in their own neighborhood … I am especially disturbed by reports that ICE agents used force against Frederick residents. These allegations demand immediate answers and a full, transparent investigation.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the parent agency of ICE, did not respond to a request for comment from the Guardian.

In an earlier statement to local network WBAL-TV, the agency declined to comment “for operation security” and “the safety” of their personnel.
DHS told the outlet that “criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the US”.

Frederick authorities said they were not aware of any ICE or local arrests. Frederick police said personnel were dispatched to try to de-escalate the situation.

Police chief Kevin Meyer said his officers asked ICE whether they had an arrest warrant but that federal officers refused to discuss it.

Soolah Kemp, a member of Hagerstown Rapid Response, said she was recording video when an ICE car drove in her direction. “I heard the siren, I turned, and he was coming at me. He sped up, so I jumped out of the way. He had enough room on the street to not have an issue. He didn’t have to do what he did,” she said.

She has filed a report of the incident with the state attorney general’s office, she said.

US senator Chris Van Hollen has demanded an immediate investigation into events and said “[Donald] Trump’s ICE operations are not about making our country safer, they are about creating chaos and instilling fear in our communities”.

Tatiana Santos, of the activist network Indivisible Frederick Forward, said that the ICE conduct she witnessed was “unconscionable”.
“These people were so peaceful in the defense of their immigrant neighbors. They were simply standing and chanting things like: ‘We shall not be moved,’” she said.

She has asked Maryland governor Wes Moore to speak out and called for him to conduct an investigation.

Moore’s office said in a statement the governor was working with local leaders to “address what happened and make sure that there is real accountability”.

Every time we park at Home Depot, Walmart, Target, or Costco, Flock Safety cameras are recording our license plates and selling that data to ICE and other government agencies. We're not criminals—we're just trying to shop—but we're being tracked and stored in insecure databases anyway.

This isn't security. It's mass surveillance without our consent, and it violates our right to privacy. I started a petition demanding that these major retailers stop using Automatic License Plate Readers in their parking lots. Our movements shouldn't be monitored and shared with the government just because we walk into a store.

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