4 detainees escaped from a Newark ICE detention facility
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Lawyers, family and friends of ICE detainees in Burlington, Massachusetts describe "horrible" conditions including insufficient food and clean drinking water, and no soap, showers, or beds.
ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.
ICE is detaining immigrants in a Burlington office park building that wasn't designed as a holding facility. Lawyers say conditions there are "abysmal" and "unsanitary."
Protesters outside a New Jersey federal immigration detention center locked arms and pushed against barricades as vehicles passed through gates and Newark's mayor cited reports of a possible uprising