A Guatemalan immigrant, Jose Chajon-Raxon, became the third person to die at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Newark, New Jersey, after experiencing a medical emergency.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the closure of an immigration detention center in the Everglades, stating that the facility, dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz,' no longer held detainees and had fulfilled its emergency role.

Vendors have been instructed to begin dismantling Florida's state-run immigration detention center in the Everglades, known as 'Alligator Alcatraz,' days after all detainees were transferred out.

New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against the operator of an immigration detention center, citing allegations of unsanitary and inhumane conditions for detainees.

The New Jersey governor has deployed state police to set up a designated protest zone outside a controversial immigration detention center.

Chaos has erupted outside a New Jersey immigration detention center amid a hunger and labor strike by detainees, with federal agents deploying chemical irritants on protesters and journalists.

Officials in Social Circle, Georgia, have filed a lawsuit against federal immigration agencies regarding plans to convert a warehouse into a 10,000-capacity immigration detention facility.

A federal appeals court has ruled that lawmakers may continue to conduct unannounced inspections of immigration detention centers, declining to halt an order requiring the Department of Homeland Security to permit such visits.

Norway's Civil Ombudsman has issued strong criticism against the Trandum Police Immigration Detention Center, citing serious conditions and a risk of inhumane treatment.

Leqaa Kordia, the final detainee from the Trump administration's 2025 crackdown on Gaza war protests, has been released after a year in a U.S. immigration detention center, stating that her freedom means little until 'everybody is free.'

The infections at the center in El Paso come amid growing worries by some lawmakers about the conditions at immigration detention centers across the country.

Five Venezuelans have accused Rafael Quero Silva, a former military officer currently in an ICE facility, of torturing them under the Maduro regime, raising questions about his potential deportation.

China has expressed 'grave concern' following a death in a Melbourne immigration detention center, as internal documents reveal a suicide warning was issued prior to the Chinese citizen's death, raising questions about monitoring by the US private prison company.

Attorneys for a man detained in a California immigration detention center have released 'disturbing' footage showing him holding a bottle of water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures, amid wider complaints about ICE detention conditions.

A report has found that staff at an immigration detention center wore England flags, raising concerns from the chair of the prisons and detention watchdog about the intimidating effect on detainees.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka plans to file a lawsuit to force the closure of Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed immigration detention center, following days of protests.

A small town in Georgia is engaged in a legal battle against a proposed ICE immigration detention center, a case that experts believe could have significant implications and potentially reshape legal strategies.

A group of US lawmakers has joined protesters in calling for the closure of a controversial immigration detention center due to inhumane conditions.

A US Senator was pepper-sprayed by ICE agents outside an immigration detention center during a protest. The senator described the sensation as 'just burning' after being gassed.

The controversial 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center in Florida is set to close in June, with officials citing inefficiency and high costs, while suppliers face rising expenses.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis clarified that the controversial 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center was always intended to be a temporary facility.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is reviewing plans to convert warehouses into detention facilities for immigrants

Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank and the last protester detained following former President Trump's campus crackdown, has been released from a U.S. immigration detention center.

The trial has commenced for a group of individuals accused of having ties to antifa in connection with a shooting incident at an immigration detention center in Texas.

Exclusive details reveal cases of repeated nasogastric tube insertions and a lack of legal representation for hunger strikers in immigration detention centers, including an Afghan man, a Ukrainian man, and a Saudi woman, with one individual force-fed for nearly six months.

A court-appointed investigator found that California's largest immigration detention center, the California City facility, failed to comply with a judge’s order to provide adequate healthcare to detainees.

Eight individuals, described by US prosecutors as having ties to Antifa, have been collectively sentenced to 450 years in prison for their involvement in a riot outside an immigration detention center in Texas, during which an officer was shot.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is facing criticism and outrage from protesters who claim she has failed to address the dire hunger and labor strike at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center.

Several protesters were arrested overnight at the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, for defying a curfew. The arrests occurred amidst ongoing hunger and labor strikes at the immigration detention center.

A hunger strike has reportedly begun at a federal immigration detention center, with details on the demands or participants currently emerging.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is continuing its efforts to convert warehouses into large-scale immigration detention centers. This initiative aims to expand the capacity for detaining immigrants.

Hundreds of detainees at Michigan's largest immigration detention center have resumed a hunger strike, protesting poor treatment, lack of medical care, inadequate food, and legal delays, while the government denies the action.

Madonna, John Legend, Pedro Pascal, and Javier Bardem are among the global celebrities who have signed an open letter. The letter calls for the closure of an immigration detention center in Texas that houses children.

Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian man held in an Arizona immigration detention center, died after an untreated tooth infection, according to his brother. He is one of at least nine people to die in ICE custody recently.

FBI Director Kash Patel Says Bureau Uncovered Antifa Funding Sources Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), FBI Director Kash Patel said on Feb. 18 that the law enforcement agency uncovered what he said are funding sources tied to antifa organizations, suggesting that more enforcement actions could come against the left-wing movement. FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington on Dec. 4, 2025. Daniel Heuer/AFP via Getty Images “Whether it’s antifa or any other violent criminal organization—we know their operations don’t exist alone; they operate with heavy funding streams,” he wrote in a post on X, along with a clip from an interview with former deputy director Dan Bongino, on his show. Patel said that the FBI is “finding them and those who fund their criminal activity.” The FBI chief did not provide more information about the organizations, the source of the funding, or specific donors who may be involved. However, he said the FBI is looking into any financial backers linked to violence committed by alleged antifa operators. Agents are looking at whether funding was sent through U.S.-based nonprofit groups and whether any of those nonprofits had tax-exempt status. They are also evaluating potential foreign funding streams, he said. “Money doesn’t lie,” Patel told Bongino in the interview, saying that the FBI is right now “following the money” and that the law enforcement agency is “starting to arrest people who used their funds to incite violence in the guise of political peaceful protest.” Last year, Patel told The Epoch Times’s Jan Jekielek in an interview that the FBI is mapping out the entire antifa network and indicated that funding streams are being traced, coming months after the Trump administration designated antifa as a domestic terrorist group. The executive order, issued by President Donald Trump on Sept. 22, called antifa a “militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.” The administration also designated foreign antifa groups as foreign terrorist organizations in November 2025. The State Department, in its designation, stated that “groups affiliated with this movement ascribe to revolutionary anarchist or Marxist ideologies, including anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity, using these to incite and justify violent assaults domestically and overseas.” In his first term, Trump signaled that he would designate antifa a terrorist group in the midst of anti-police riots, violence, and demonstrations in the summer of 2020. At one point during the 2020 unrest, Trump warned that he would invoke the Insurrection Act that was last used during the Los Angeles riots in 1992, and he again suggested invoking the law as National Guard deployments were sent to multiple cities last year. Patel on Feb. 18 also dismissed longstanding claims that antifa is only an ideological framework and said that dozens of people in Texas have been arrested in connection with the left-wing organization. Federal officials in October 2025 targeted antifa and filed terrorism charges against five people in Texas, citing the order issued by Trump. In November 2025, the five defendants pleaded guilty in response to charges that they were accused of supporting antifa in a July shooting that wounded a police officer outside a Texas immigration detention center. Patel previously said the charges in Texas are the first time a material support to terrorism charge has targeted antifa. Bongino, who was the FBI deputy director before leaving the government in January, returned to hosting his podcast this month. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Tyler Durden Fri, 02/20/2026 - 08:55