Day 225

Torture and Enforced Disappearances at 'Alligator Alcatraz' and Krome Detention Centers

Amnesty International documented systematic torture, enforced disappearances, and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment at the Everglades Detention Facility ('Alligator Alcatraz') and Krome North Service Processing Center in Florida. Detainees were held in a 2x2 foot cage called 'the box,' subjected to prolonged solitary confinement, and held without registration in any public tracking system, which Amnesty says facilitates incommunicado detention and, where whereabouts are denied, enforced disappearance.

EOIR imposes case completion quotas

The Executive Office for Immigration Review imposed rigid case completion goals on immigration judges, including 95% completion of non-detained cases in one year.

From: Deportation Traps at Immigration Court Hearings and Systematic Denial of Due Process

Largest deportation flight: 132 Haitians

The largest single deportation flight to Haiti carried 132 people, bringing the total to 295 deported since inauguration.

From: Deportations to Haiti Despite Gang Control and Humanitarian Collapse