Immigration detention

Michigan Public’s Data reporter explains Michigan's immigration, detention, and deportation data.

It’s too early to say how immigration or enforcement activity in Michigan actually has changed under the Trump administration. Here’s some information about the state’s historical data to help put any new information in context.

Here’s some of the safety planning that experts are recommending to families with mixed-immigration status.

Commissioners said they were moved by the comments, but had no plans to make the declaration.

The ACLU of Michigan is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over what it calls a “legal loophole” that lets those agencies keep immigration detention records “completely secret.” The lawsuit focuses on people who are detained for immigration violations in county jails.

A judge in Detroit has approved a settlement in a lawsuit that challenged the detention of Iraqi nationals who were targeted for deportation by the Trump administration.

A proposed immigration detention facility in Ionia County will face opposition every step of the way. That’s the message from a group that’s been speaking…