Image from Human Rights Watch: Immigrants Abused in Florida Detention Sites: Pervasive Overcrowding, Medical Neglect, Degrading Treatment.

This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration.

For medical neglect of pregnant women, see: ICE’s Brutal Treatment of Pregnant Women.

News: 2026

January 20.   Judd Legum: ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment.

January 20.   Angela Kocherga & Michel Martin: Concerns about conditions at Texas detention center grow after 3 die in custody.

January 20.   Brittny Mejia & Ruben Vives: U.S. senators tour California City ICE facility, decry conditions and inadequate medical care.

January 28.   Oren Peleg: The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center: How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations.

February 2.   Juliana Lightsey: Hundreds of Kids, Including Infants, Are Still at the ICE Facility That Released Liam Ramos. Now There’s a Measles Outbreak.

February 6.   Mike Hixenbaugh & Daniella Silva: Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school.

February 11.   Brittny Mejia: Department of Homeland Security must provide ‘constitutionally adequate healthcare’ at ICE detention center, judge rules.

February 13.   Mike Hixenbaugh: ‘Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this’: A family’s nightmare in ICE detention.A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

February 15.   Christian Balderas: Judge rules ICE medical neglect made detention unconstitutional, Filipino man released: A Filipino man was begging for months to go to the hospital after a “stabbing” pain in his stomach. He ended up with a bone infection and an amputation.

February 19.   The New York Times: ‘Our Patients Are More Frightened and Sicker Than Ever.’

News: 2025

June 6.   Jasmine Garsd: In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers.

October 31.   Claudia Lauer: Senate report details dozens of cases of medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers.

November 6.   Associated Press: Judge orders improvements at a Chicago immigration facility after claims of inhumane conditions: ‘People shouldn’t be sleeping next to overflowing toilets,’ judge says.

December 17.   The ACLU: Inside an ICE Detention Center: Detained People Describe Severe Medical Neglect, Harrowing Conditions.

December 17.   Brittny Mejia: ‘I am afraid that I might die here’: ICE detainee fears ‘imminent death’ without lifesaving care, lawyers say.