Overview
- ICE canceled its deal with Acquisition Logistics at Camp East Montana and installed Amentum on a 180‑day bridge contract, keeping the El Paso facility open during the transition.
- Reports from advocates and news outlets cite overcrowding, limited medical care and food, repeated suicide attempts, and at least two deaths, as Rep. Veronica Escobar presses for closure and investigations.
- Under oath in an Oregon case, ICE personnel described verbal daily arrest targets for field teams and the use of an 'Elite' mapping tool to steer operations toward selected areas and purported high‑value targets.
- An official February blueprint, the Detention Reengineering Initiative, outlines purchasing sites for regional processing hubs and megacenters with capacity for thousands as part of a push to expand and standardize detention.
- Communities and officials are mobilizing responses, including a neighborhood siren network in Los Angeles’ Highland Park and preparedness in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, while CBP said a March 14 coastal interdiction in California led to 23 people being transferred to ICE custody in San Diego.