Trump administration increasingly places immigrants in solitary confinement, report finds
Washington – According to a report published on Wednesday using the Federal data and records obtained by the requests of the Freedom of Information by Human Rights Physicians, the use of cell imprisonment in custody is rising under the Trump administration.
Migration and Customs Protection placed at least 10,588 people in cell imprisonment from April 2024 to May 2025 Report found. The contributors also included the Harvard University’s Peler Migration Laboratory and Harvard Law Faculty experts.
The use of cell imprisonment in the first four months of the existing Trump administration increased the ratio between 2018 and 2023 every month every month and increased by more than six times in the last few months of 2024.
“Every month from February to May, the full calendar months of the new administration, the number of people placed alone on ice [custody] It increased by 6.5 %, ”says Human Rights Physicians Medical Consultant and Harvard Medical School Pediatri Assistant.
In ice detention plants, cell imprisonment is used as a kind of punishment or to protect immigrants at risk. Agency and Main Agency, the Ministry of Internal Security, did not respond to comments.
The United Nations called it a kind of torture after a period of more than 15 days.
ICE defines vulnerable prisoners as serious medical or mental health conditions, disabled and elderly, pregnant or nursing, sexual orientation or those who are at risk of harm due to victims of sexual identity or abuse.
Among those categorized unprotected, the report states that cell imprisonment lasted twice as long as the first financial quarter of 2022, when the agency began to report these statistics in the first three months of 2025.
According to the report, the vulnerable prisoners this year, in late 2021 compared to 14 days, an average of 38 consecutive days wasolated.
The report states that the use of cell imprisonment in detention in custody has increased in the last decade and has increased the problem of billions of dollars authorized to be detained by the Congress earlier this year. The Federal Government invites the implementation to terminate the implementation for immigrants detained for deportation processes and congress and congress members to use surveillance.
As of September 7, approximately 59,000 immigrants were held in ice custody. According to TRACA non -partisan data research organization.
For human rights, doctors researchers have analyzed individual cases in New England and found the systemic use of cell imprisonment for arbitrary and retaliation purposes such as demanding shower, sharing food or reporting sexual assault.
In California, the prisoners were imprisoned from September 2018 to September 2023, 2,546 times.
Last year, ICE changed the way of notifying this data. Instead of settlements in which the same person can be counted more than once for different tips in cell imprisonment, ICE is now reporting the number of individuals.
In California, ICE reported that 596 people were placed at cell confineure from April 2024 to May 2025.
In the period of 2018-2023, the two California plants took place in the top five with the maximum number of cell imprisonment settlements-Adelanto Ice Processing Center in Bernardino district and Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego.
This year, the data reflects ICE’s investments in the Republic -led states. According to the report, the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania, Montgomery processing center in Texas, Buffalo Service Processing Center in New York, Southern Texas Ice Processing Center, Southern Texas Ice Processing Center, and Louisiana Ice Processing Center are connected to Louisiana Ice processing center.
A previous report of the same authors found that ICE used imprisonment between 2018 and 2023 borders between 2018 and 2023, including a Otay Mesa detainee held for 759 days.
