Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
US immigration officials have been increasingly detaining people in small, secretive holding facilities for days or even weeks at a time in violation of federal policy, a Guardian investigation has found.
These holding facilities – located at ICE offices, in federal buildings and other locations around the country – are typically used to detain people after they have been arrested but before they are transferred or released. In many cases, they consist of small concrete rooms with no beds and are designed to only be used for a few hours.
Previously, ICE was prohibited by its own internal policies from detaining people for longer than 12 hours in these holding facilities. But in a June memo, the agency waived the 12-hour rule, saying people recently arrested by ICE can be detained in the holding rooms for up to three days.
There is extremely limited oversight of ICE holding facilities nationwide, leading to concern among advocates about unknown troubling conditions inside.
The Guardian analyzed data on ICE holding facility book-ins, first published by the Deportation Data Project, that cover a period from September 2023 until late July of this year, the most recent month for which it is available.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/ice-hidden-detention-sites
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