Crimes Against Humanity: Tens of Thousands Under Mass Internment, MANY with No Criminal History

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As of January 25, 2026, there are approximately 70,766 individuals in ICE detention, with a significant portion having no criminal convictions.

Judges Have Rebuked Trump’s Mass Detention of Immigrants Thousands of Times - Mother Jones. A new Reuters investigation found hundreds of judges intervening in the prolonged detention of immigrants without criminal records.

Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that... Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement arm is detaining people unlawfully, according to a new Reuters review of court documents. And that’s just since October. 

The Trump administration’s immense increase in detainments rests, in part, on their decision to detain people while their immigration cases are moving through the system—a departure from previous administrations’ interpretation of immigration law. This has led to a steep increase in immigrants petitioning the courts to be released, as Reuters reports, and the thousands of rulings finding that these prolonged detainments were unlawful. 

And Trump is often keeping these individuals locked up indefinitely.

Earlier this month, the conservative 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a win. In a 2-1 ruling, that court held that the administration could hold people whose cases are actively going through the system. It’s a key win, as the circuit oversees Texas and Louisiana, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement has some of its most populated detention centers. 

The number of people kept in detainment who have no criminal record—the population petitioning the courts to be released—has increased exponentially under Trump’s second administration. According to a recent report from the American Immigration Council, the Trump administration’s arrest practices have led to a 2,450 percent increase in people with no criminal record being held in ICE detention on any given day.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. "2450 per cent increase" ??? Just say TWENTY-FIVE FOLD increase !!

Why is everything supposed to be clearer in "percent" terms ? It really only works well for quantities UNDER 100 % which aren't close to a simple fraction.

And don't get me started on "three times smaller ...".


I know, this was in the original, not the poster's fault.

[BidenRocks]

2. These people are costing us millions!

Let them go back to their jobs which means taxable income!

The criminals WE care about are in Washington DC.

Those crooks are flirting with Trillions of dollars.

But the Spanish speakers are to blame for everything?

[B.See]

3. Any minority, or liberal, it seems.

[Boomerproud]

4. Why is this being reported by Mother Jones and not MSM?

[B.See]

5. Cowardice and Complicity...

the MSM (with few exceptions) has become a JOKE.

[MayReasonRule]

7. Trump Used To Commit Crimes Against Humanity, Trump Still Does Commit Crimes Against Humanity But He Used To Too

When Reason rules, law becomes the architecture of trust: it shields the vulnerable, limits the powerful, and turns raw force into a shared safeguard rather than the tool of oppressive domination ruling our current timeline.

Here's to the total dissolution of the wholly fascist ongoing criminal enterprise that is the GOP.

[Martin68]

8. A fascist administration is imprisoning tens of thousands in concentric camps in the USA.

[samsingh]

9. i can't believe we are here - future generations will ask how this injustice happened and nothing

was done by those in power (repugs) to stop it.

[B.See]

10. Frankly I think future generations will

rightfully come to wonder about more than just our elected officials and those in power.

Let's face it. The outrages and atrocities perpetrated by Trump and his fascist accomplices have garnered rather muted response, overall - are on occasion even defended, and sometimes by quite surprising... 'players'... for want of a more disparaging word.

As Kamala once stated on Colbert, she "didn't expect the capitulation." And I don't think she was just talking politicians.

That being said, MANY props to the people of Minnesota for their peaceful RESISTANCE, and also to select communities /participants elsewhere - for taking a stand, including opposition to the establishment of concentration camps in their communities.

Because make no mistake, our Constitution, rule of law, our DEMOCRACY and democracies - WE, are right now engaged in the existential fight of our lives.

[Vinca]

11. I wonder how much of a cut Trump gets from the private prison owners.

If this is really about immigration, how about a few unannounced raids on Trump properties?