Beyond the Border: untreated medical conditions in ICE custody, deportations in graduation season and more pressure on protesters

Here's what happened this week in immigration news.

Written by Rami Alarian, Edited by Kate Morrissey

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Detention facility conditions 

L.A. Taco reported that Kyron Shakeel Swaso, the organizer of a hunger strike at Adelanto ICE Processing Center, said that the staff of the center taunted him, caused “staff-provoked riots” and transferred him twice before deporting him. He also said he witnessed the declining health of two detainees who later died in custody and that two Adelanto employees were fired after helping them. 

The San Bernardino Sun reported that three members of Congress demanded an investigation into retaliation against hunger strikers at Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

NPR reported that Carlitos Ricardo “Richard” Parias has spent months in ICE detention at Adelanto ICE Processing Center after being shot during an arrest, leaving him with long-term injuries. His attorneys said he has not received proper medical attention while in custody. 

Times of San Diego reported that mismanagement of his diabetes care left a man who was held for over a year in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at Otay Mesa Detention Center permanently disabled.

The Intercept reported that an asylum seeker from Belarus said a tumor is growing in his arm untreated while he's in ICE custody at Farmville Detention Center in Virginia.

Targeting protesters 

The Intercept reported that undercover police detectives infiltrated a protest outside of Delaney Hall in New Jersey earlier this month to investigate and arrest a protester.

The Intercept reported that the FBI has contacted approximately 90 people arrested at protests outside Delaney Hall to become informants. Attorneys representing some of the protestors filed a formal cease-and-desist letter to the U.S. Attorney and the FBI, arguing that contacting the protestors violated the right to counsel. 

The Guardian reported that eight people who were convicted of terrorism charges after protesting at an ICE detention facility in Texas received “unusually harsh sentences” ranging from 30 to 100 years.

The New York Times reported that a longtime activist in Minneapolis who follows ICE vehicles to alert residents in immigrant neighborhoods said federal officials smashed his van windows and punched him repeatedly during an arrest in January before leaving him shackled to a hospital bed for five days without access to his lawyer. 

Children and ICE

Phoenix New Times reported that after spending 20 days at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas alongside his mother, 14-year-old Dillan Paredes returned home a day before his eighth-grade promotion ceremony. Both he and his mother were released due to a court settlement that limits how long children can be held in federal custody. 

The Los Angeles Times reported that ICE detained 18-year-old Wilber Urbina Garcia a day after he graduated from high school. Officers told his mother that they were detaining him because he had turned 18 even though he still had a pending asylum case and had attended every appointment. 

The Guardian reported that a 17-year-old Maryland boy named Mark graduated from high school last month while his father, who had lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years, watched on a livestream from Mexico after being deported to El Salvador.

Mother Jones reported that ICE detained both parents of four U.S. citizen siblings in Palm Beach County, Florida, leaving the siblings alone for months. More than 146,000 U.S. citizen children had a parent detained between January 2025 and April 2026.

ICE Arrests 

Santa Barbara Independent reported that on Father's Day, ICE detained up to 11 people in the area, including a U.S. citizen.

The Border Chronicle reported that Texas state troopers arrested and handed over to ICE a woman who had protection from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or DACA. The woman, a nursing assistant and mother of two, came to the U.S. from Mexico at a young age.. 

The Guardian reported that street arrests by ICE in both New York and New Jersey disproportionately target people from Latin American countries.

Federal court updates 

ABC News reported that the Supreme Court ruled that border officials do not need clear and convincing evidence to find green card holders inadmissible and prevent them from reentering the country if the officials suspect them of having committed “crimes of moral turpitude.”

The New York Times reported that the Supreme Court has decided that the federal government can turn migrants seeking asylum away at the border by stopping asylum seekers from physically setting foot on U.S. soil.

The Supreme Court also allowed the Trump administration to go forward with its plans to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians, The New York Times reported.

The Los Angeles Times reported that a federal judge in California banned ICE officials from making arrests inside immigration courts nationwide. 

Other stories to watch

The Long Beach Post reported that state Sen. Lena Gonzalez introduced legislation that would require local law enforcement to release recordings of 911 calls originating from immigration detention centers. 

El Faro published a crónica, a Spanish-language journalism narrative, that followed Leticia Casildo, a 48-year-old migrant and mutual-aid activist in Louisiana, who helps the family members of those who are detained or deported. She takes in children, delivers food and coordinates support patrols.

The Tucson Sentinel reported that the Tohono O’odham Nation sued the Trump administration to stop construction of a border wall in Southern Arizona to protect the tribe’s land and water. 

The Reading Eagle reported that Sen. John Fetterman said ICE scrapped plans to convert warehouses in Pennsylvania into detention facilities. 

LAist reported that the investigation into off-duty ICE officer Brian Palacios  — who shot and killed Keith Porter Jr. on New Year’s Eve in 2025 — remains incomplete. 

Reuters reported that federal courts ordered the release of Salah Sarsour, the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque. A judge found that Sarsour had a substantial First Amendment claim tied to his advocacy for Palestinian rights.

ABC News reported that ICE is trying to fine an immigration attorney $250,000 after the agency accused him of filing fraudulent asylum applications.

Reuters reported that a federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration can expand expedited removal, allowing fast-tracked deportations far from the border of people who cannot prove they have been living in the U.S. for at least two years.

CP24 reported that a federal judge ordered the release of a Canadian citizen who spent more than eight months in ICE detention because ICE failed to provide evidence supporting allegations that he violated the terms of an electronic monitoring program. 

The Desert Sun reported that Milena Araya-Davis, who was raised in Palm Springs and briefly held at Otay Mesa Detention Center despite being married to a U.S. citizen and having no criminal record, has now received a green card.

Thanks for reading! Take care and stay well.

— Rami