Day 521
June 24, 2026
2 incidents
- Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Rule of Law
ICE Arrests Three Men at Manhattan Courts Days After Federal Judge Bars Courthouse Arrests
On June 24, 2026, US District Judge P. Casey Pitts ruled that ICE and DOJ's expanded courthouse-arrest policy was 'arbitrary and capricious,' restoring the pre-2025 rule limiting arrests at immigration courts to high-risk cases and reinstating a 12-hour detention cap. Within days, ICE agents arrested three men — from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala — at Manhattan immigration courts, in what advocates describe as the first clear violations of two separate federal court orders barring such arrests. ICE denies violating any order but has not explained how the arrests fit within the ban's stated exceptions.
- Serious Rights Violation Deportation & Immigration
146 Deportees Housed in Hotel That Collapsed in Venezuela Earthquake Hours Later
On June 24, 2026, a US deportation flight carrying 146 people — including 19 women and 7 children — landed in Venezuela and was housed at Hotel Santuario in La Guaira. Hours later, back-to-back magnitude-7.5 and 7.2 earthquakes struck the area and the hotel collapsed. As of June 30, Venezuela's repatriation agency could confirm only 32 survivors from the flight; families report deaths, amputations, and people still missing, though no precise death toll has been confirmed in reporting.