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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano

More than 10,000 people held in solitary immigration confinement by Ice in a year

Solitary cell in migrant jail
The Adelanto detention facility in California. Since Trump took office, authorities have arrested more than 210,000 people and deported more than 216,000. Photograph: John Moore/Getty

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) put more than 10,500 people in solitary confinement between April 2024 and May 2025, and use of the practice has quickly increased under Donald Trump’s administration, according to new research.

A report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), the Peeler Immigration Lab, and Harvard Law School experts, published on Wednesday, sheds light on what’s happening inside US immigrant detention facilities and how increasing numbers of vulnerable people are being subjected to solitary confinement for longer periods of time.

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