Immigration attorneys say detainees are entitled to a phone call if they are held for several hours. The Hawaii American Immigration Lawyers Association has a Deportation Defense Hotline at (808) 204-5951. U.S. Customs and Border Protection told HNN they are working on a statement for this story.

As the Trump administration ramps up detentions and pushes the bounds of its authority, immigrant families and attorneys are left to brave an already opaque system — now even more so, advocates say, amid an aggressive mass deportation push.

A U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of a private prison company that plans to use its troubled Leavenworth facility for immigration detention. The city argued CoreCivic should follow

Jennifer Gaffney, the superintendent of the Sackets Harbor Central school district in New York, says leaders must do what is right for students.

In one weekend in May, more than a 1,000 immigrants were arrested in Florida. The massive crackdown has Trump supporters asking why their neighbors were detained and must be deported.

Under the law, members of Congress are authorized to go into federal immigration facilities as ... Rob Menendez, had joined McIver at the detention center, told reporters Tuesday that her and ...

A Georgetown University scholar from India has been released from immigration detention after he was arrested in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students.

How foreigners can be held without charge. How immigration detention isn't supposed to be punishing, even though detention centers look, feel and often were, in the past, prisons. How expensive it ...

Researchers created a new method to calculate how many people are detained at ICE facilities – and uncovered some hidden population spikes.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is denying that he trespassed at a new federal immigration detention center during a confrontation that led to his arrest.

Baraka was outside the gates of Delaney Hall with three members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation - U.S. Reps. Rob Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman - who had come to inspect the facility.

Jeanette Vizguerra, named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in 2017 for her immigrant rights activism, is now detained in a privately-run immigration facility in Colorado.