Immigration

A man held at the ICE facility in Jena said detainees are being held in some cases up to three months after receiving their final deportation notices.

Three women detail the grueling, personal work behind regular visits to Louisiana’s detention centers to help immigrants make it through the asylum process.

A Gulf States Newsroom investigation digs into the Deep South’s thorny regional immigration system and the obstacles and steep odds at every turn.

Two men who speak a rare language languished in Louisiana and Mississippi detention centers — in part, they say, because they weren't able to share their experiences in their native tongue.

Black immigrants who were formerly held in two detention centers in Louisiana are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end contracts with the facilities. Through a complaint filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, they claim that the detention centers staff and officers engaged in "abusive, inhumane, criminal and racially discriminatory practices."

Advocates say asylum seekers, many of whom are Cuban, Haitian and Venezuelan, are not being tested before entering Louisiana and Mississippi communities.

Advocates say they’re glad immigrants are being let out of detention but worry the chaotic nature of the releases could cause a ‘crisis.’

A recent study from Tulane University Law School’s Immigrant Rights Clinic found that ICE releases immigrants who use habeas corpus petitions to challenge their lengthy detentions rather than allowing their cases to be heard in courts. This keeps judges from weighing in on prolonged detentions.