Conditions in Migrant Detention Centers

Squalid conditions, overcrowding, cold temperatures, inadequate medical care, and even tragic deaths — the emergence of disturbing reports and images from migrant detention facilities added a troubling layer to the Trump administration’s hardline anti-immigration stance.
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With an executive order the first week of his presidency, instructing Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to expand the detention of migrants apprehended while crossing the border, Donald Trump set the stage not only for ending the policy of allowing migrants to remain in the U.S. interior while awaiting court proceedings, but for increasingly dangerous and unhealthy conditions in both government-run and privately operated detention centers.

Photos of overcrowded children and adults behind metal cages and reports of filth, illness, and untimely deaths have generated outrage alongside the widespread anger over the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy that separated children from families. Members of Congress, federal inspectors and other officials made or tried to make numerous visits to immigrant detention centers run by CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF). In June 2018, Sen. Jeff Merkley said he was shocked by what he saw after a visit to a Texas center for unaccompanied immigrant children — a visit that multiple DHS officials, including then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, dismissed as a “Hill stunt” in emails obtained by American Oversight. 

Throughout 2019, alarming new details continued to come out. A January 2019 DHS inspector general report on ICE detention contractors found “serious deficiencies such as significant understaffing, failure to provide sufficient mental health observation, and inadequate monitoring of detainees with criminal histories.” The report also noted that the inspector general had “no way of verifying whether any of these deficiencies have been corrected.” In June of that year, a legal team interviewed 60 children at a Border Patrol facility near El Paso, describing neglect and inadequate food, water and sanitation. One visiting physician described “extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day” at a CBP facility in Texas. Members of Congress who visited a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Tex., reported being told by detained women that they were told to drink from toilet bowls due to a lack of running water.

Such conditions are primed for the spread of serious illness. Between September 2018 and August 2019, more than 700 migrants were infected with mumps after being exposed to the disease in detention centers, and even with the arrival of flu season in late 2019, Customs and Border Protection refused to administer free vaccines to migrants. At least three minors have died from the flu while in custody, including one teenage boy who, as revealed in video footage reported on by ProPublica in early December, was held in a small concrete holding cell, where he passed away after not receiving proper medical attention — video footage that doesn’t match the Border Patrol’s official account.

Moreover, the process ICE uses for providing medical care, called Medical Payment Authorization Request, or MedPAR, needs serious work. Requests for off-site care are approved by ICE staff, relying only on the reviewer’s “professional judgment.” A 2016 government report on the system said that it lacked “specific written clinical guidance on which to base approval decisions.” American Oversight is investigating such deficiencies in care for detained migrants as well as the conditions in facilities — from allegations of abuse to official communications with private contractors.

In September 2019, American Oversight published hundreds of photos we obtained — including photos of living areas and of handwritten complaint forms — that shed more light on the conditions inside detention centers for unaccompanied migrant children, which are overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services. You can read more about that here.

Litigation

American Oversight has filed numerous lawsuits against the federal government for public records that shed light on conditions in detention centers, including deaths in custody.

In June 2019, American Oversight sued the Department of Homeland Security for records of communications related to the deaths of individuals detained by ICE and the Border Patrol, including the communications of senior officials like Kirstjen Nielsen and Kevin McAleenan, the former secretary and former acting secretary of DHS. We obtained emails from Nielsen expressing concern over the increasing numbers of unaccompanied migrant children held in government custody as well as records providing details about the deaths of two children in U.S. custody in December 2018.

In November 2021, we filed a separate lawsuit against DHS seeking records related to deaths in custody from 2018 through 2020, including detainee death reviews, health care and security compliance analysis reports, and medical event analyses related to the deaths of detained individuals. As a result of our litigation, ICE released unredacted records in May 2023.

Updates

American Oversight ‘Will Get Those Documents’: ICE Must Redo Records Search and Release Requested Records Related to Deaths in Custody

September 19, 2023
“ICE loses on each challenged exemption,” the court ruled in American Oversight’s lawsuit for documents that could shed further light on conditions and procedures in immigration detention.

American Oversight Sues DHS for Records on Deaths in Immigration Custody

November 16, 2021
The lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeks the release of records that may shed light on the deaths of individuals held in the custody of immigration authorities.

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July 15, 2021
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May 7, 2021
In addition to focusing on threats to voting rights and democracy, American Oversight has also been working to hold Trump officials accountable for their actions.

New Details About Trump-Era Efforts to Block Pregnant Minors in Immigration Detention from Accessing Abortions

May 6, 2021
Emails provide new information about the 2017 Jane Doe abortion case, and show top officials in the Office of Refugee and Resettlement keeping track of pregnancies and personally intervening in another pregnant teen's case.

DHS Watchdog Report Finds ICE Violated Detention Standards at Arizona Facility

April 15, 2021
Last week, the DHS Inspector General released a report detailing dangerous conditions at La Palma Correctional Center, an ICE detention facility in Eloy, Ariz.

News Roundup: Accountability, Not Complicity

January 29, 2021
Despite a range of executive actions meant to undo some of the worst damage, it’s clear that the previous president’s brand of destructive politics is an ongoing threat to the country.

American Oversight Documents Reveal Troubling Details About ICE’s Handling of Death in Custody

December 8, 2020
Records show ICE officials kept Mergensana Amar restrained over objections of hospital staff, and didn’t follow the agency’s policy on death notifications.

Investigations Update: ‘Burrowing In,’ Voter Fraud Task Forces, and Federal Law Enforcement

July 28, 2020
Our latest investigations into political appointees moving to permanent positions, the designation of "antifa" as a terrorist group, and state-level voter fraud task forces.

American Oversight Sues ICE, CBP for Records of Deaths in Custody

July 23, 2020
American Oversight filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for the release of records that may shed light on the deaths of people in the custody of Trump administration immigration authorities.

Investigations Update: Militarization of Police, Covid-19 in Migrant Detention Centers, and Barr’s Political Interference

July 14, 2020
Here’s a look at the investigations our team has been pursuing through public records requests in the last week.

News Roundup: The Administration’s Failure to Confront Two National Crises

June 19, 2020
The Trump administration's responses to the deadly coronavirus pandemic and to nationwide protests against systemic racism in law enforcement have been both harmful and insufficient.

American Oversight Sues ICE for Records of Detention Center Complaints

June 18, 2020
As cases surge in immigration detention facilities, American Oversight is suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement for records related to grievances filed at various centers since March.

News Roundup: Georgia’s Disastrous Election, the Administration’s Alarming Protest Response, and Barr’s Troubling Tenure

June 12, 2020
As stirring protests against police brutality gripped the nation’s attention and as the coronavirus continued its tragic spread through multiple states, Georgia held a chaotic primary election.

News Roundup: One Firing, Multiple Scandals

May 22, 2020
Trump's firing of the State Department's inspector general has unearthed a series of concerning stories about the conduct of the very person who pressed for the firing — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

In the Documents: Vaccines Expired in Detention Facility Fridge in Early 2019

May 21, 2020
Documents obtained by American Oversight reveal that 39 doses of a vaccine went bad when a refrigerator at an ICE-operated detention center in Texas failed in January 2019. 

News Roundup: Who Will Watch the Inspectors General?

May 8, 2020
Every week seems to bring a new example of President Donald Trump’s disdain — or fear — of independent oversight.

News Roundup: Protecting the Right to Vote During a Pandemic

May 1, 2020
Like many things in today’s politics, mail-in voting has become a political flashpoint as the November election gets closer.

News Roundup: Miracle Drugs and Trump’s Alternate Reality

April 24, 2020
Trump has seemingly failed to learn that no amount of political spin can minimize his administration’s mismanaged pandemic response.

News Roundup: Who Stands to Gain?

April 17, 2020
As the administration’s tragically mismanaged response to the coronavirus continues to lurch onward, the answers to that question are more important than ever.

News Roundup: Corruption and Coronavirus

April 10, 2020
Trump is apparently counting on the public to be too distracted by the coronavirus to pay much attention to his continuing dictator-like purges of government officials and his brazen rejection of oversight. 

News Roundup: Transparency and Oversight Are More Important Than Ever

March 27, 2020
During ordinary times, government transparency maintains a functioning democracy. But during the coronavirus outbreak, it can also save lives.

Three Years of American Oversight

March 19, 2020
These are anxious and uncertain times. But as American Oversight marks its third anniversary, our work to expose corruption, self-dealing and other misconduct continues.

News Roundup: Acquittal Isn’t the End

February 7, 2020
More questions remain. More answers are coming.

Photos from Inside Detention Centers for Migrant Children

September 8, 2019
American Oversight has obtained hundreds of photos that shed more light on the conditions inside detention centers for unaccompanied migrant children.

Lawsuit Seeks Records to Shed Light on Deaths of Detainees in DHS Custody

June 18, 2019
At least seven migrant children have died while in the custody of Customs and Border Protection, raising concerns about the treatment of those detained at the border and the conditions in detention centers.
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