General Background on Detention Centers

• A great summary from NILC of how ICE is detaining people indiscriminately and making it nearly impossible to get out: view on Instagram or as a pdf.

• NYT on the deportation network 

The AROCC Detention Center at Mesa Gateway Airport

In addition to the articles below, you can read our research report on AROCC and ICE-air here.

• Prior to a congressional oversight visit, ICE moved detainees out of the facility

• Even so, conditions were still awful

• Ansari, Grijalva and Stanton demand changes at AROCC

• AROCC landlord warns about overcrowding, may violate lease

• Detainee forced to sleep on feces-covered floor at AROCC  -- Two weeks later, the toilets are still overflowing -- DHS says democrats are lying about plumbing and overcrowding

• Detainees pepper-sprayed in enclosed space at AROCC

• Stanton, Ansari and Grijalva demand answers about use of pepper spray

Other Immigration Articles

• Privacy concerns about Scottsdale's police surveillance of license plates

• ICE agents involved in vehicle collision in Mesa

• Deportation of two gay Iranian men delayed, status unknown

• Surveillance at the Arizona Border

• Arizona immigrant hit with $1.8M fine

• The court's overwhelming rebuke of Trump's immigration policies

• Immigrants face pressure to voluntarily deport