| 2026-08-02 | ICE Sets Second-Term Monthly Record: 46,000 Detained in July 2026 as In-Custody Deaths Reach 24+
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | Acentra's ICE Medical Claims System Has Processed Zero Claims While Hospitals Absorb Detainee Care Costs
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Veterans Affairs | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | California's DROP Platform Goes Live — First US Centralized Data-Broker Deletion Mechanism, 45-Day Check Cycle
7 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | DOJ Directs US Attorneys to Submit Adverse Rulings as Judicial Impeachment Fodder; Blanche Calls It 'War' on the Judiciary
4 src Todd Blanche · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Dies at Delaney Hall After Medication Denial, 23rd ICE Custody Death of 2026, Second at GEO's $1.2B NJ Facility
5 src GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · House Judiciary Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-01 | ICE Electronic Monitoring Triples to 54,000 Immigrants; GEO Group Projects Growth to 450,000
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | Clark County, IN Residents Demand Oversight of $3M Jail-ICE Detention Contract
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | E. Kahn Development Sues Montgomery Township, NJ for $300M Over an Ordinance Banning Both Data Centers and Detention Centers
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | Kalshi Launches Prediction Market Letting Traders Bet on ICE's Daily Arrest Count
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | Virginia SCC Orders Dominion to Shift Transmission Costs to Data Centers, Cutting Residential Bill Impact to $0.94
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | 9th Circuit Rejects Trump Administration's Mandatory Detention Expansion, Deepening 4-2 Circuit Split Toward Likely SCOTUS Review
2 src Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | Court-Appointed Monitor Finds CoreCivic's California City ICE Facility in Sustained Medical Failure, Violating Court Order
3 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · American Civil Liberties Union | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | ICE Widens Airport Arrests to Legally-Present Migrants Using TSA Checkpoint Database Matching, No Warrants
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Transportation Security Administration | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | Mother Jones Investigation: Anti-ICE Protesters Prosecuted as Antifa Under Trump's Terrorism Framework
1 src Mother Jones · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | New York AG Orders 12 Jurisdictions to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements by August 25; Madison County Sheriff Publicly Defies
3 src New York Office of Immigrant Trust · Broome County | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | Data Centers Emerge as Wedge Issue in Michigan's 2026 Democratic Primary, Traverse City Resistance Grows
1 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-29 | DeSoto County, FL Commissioners Approve One-Year Data Center Moratorium, Preserving Carve-Out for 800-Acre Project
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | GEO Group Signs 5-Year, $80M/Year ICE Contract for Rivers Correctional in Hertford County, NC, Over Governor Stein's Objection
3 src GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | ICE Adds 5,500 Beds Toward 100,000-Person Detention Goal as June 2026 Arrests Hit Record 43,000
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | ICE Posts Emergency SAM.gov Solicitation for 5,500 Detention Beds Across Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Miami — Courts Embedded On-Site
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-29 | Trump and DOJ Jointly Petition SCOTUS to Vacate $83M Carroll Verdict, Substitute Government as Defendant
2 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Augusta Township, MI Voters Overturn Thor Equities $1B Data Center Rezoning 89.5%-10.4%
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Columbia County GA Approves Google Data Centers, Sends Property-Tax-Relief Plan to November Referendum
3 src Google | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Montgomery County MD Council Unanimously Passes 18-Month Data Center Moratorium, 25 MW Cap Into Law
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | ProPublica: Federal Judges Nationwide Chastise DOJ Lawyers for 'Unlawful,' 'Unethical' Conduct as Presumption of Regularity Erodes
1 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Researcher Austin Kocher: Over 600,000 People Booked Into ICE Detention Since Trump II Began
1 src Austin Kocher · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Senate Confirms Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence, 51-47, on a Party-Line Roll Call
6 src Jay Clayton · U.S. Senate · Bill Pulte · Donald Trump · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-28 | Trump Administration Races to SCOTUS Shadow Docket for Mail-Ballot Restrictions After First Circuit Upholds Block
2 src Donald Trump · United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-27 | Congress Quietly Eliminated ICE Biweekly Detention Data Mandate — New Analysis Finds 16% Undercount
1 src ICE · Austin Kocher · CoreCivic | | reported |
| 2026-07-27 | EU AI Act Omnibus Enters Force, Delays High-Risk AI Deadline to December 2027
3 src European Union | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-27 | Gordie Howe International Bridge Opens After Toll-Revenue Settlement Resolves Trump Threat
2 src Donald Trump |
| reported |
| 2026-07-27 | ICE Extends No-Bid Amentum Contract for Camp East Montana Through 2027 at $776M Additional Cost, Over HRW/ACLU Abuse Findings
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-27 | Prosecutors Move to Dismiss the Huerta Case Entirely, More Than a Year After a Felony Arrest Announced With Fanfare
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-25 | EU AI Act Full Enforcement Begins August 2 — Facial Recognition Bans, High-Risk AI Rules Binding
3 src European Union · Clearview AI | | reported |
| 2026-07-24 | Escambia County FL Commissioners Vote 5-0 That Data Centers 'Not Permitted' Under Land Code
1 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-24 | ICE Plans 1,400-Bed Detention Center at Shuttered Rivers Correctional in Hertford County, NC
3 src ICE · GEO Group | | reported |
| 2026-07-24 | Nun Detained by ICE While Walking to Daily Mass in Texas — Speaks Out for First Time
1 src ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-24 | Paramount Agrees to Pause $110B Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition Until June 2027, Pending State-AG and WGA Antitrust Suits
4 src Rob Bonta · David Ellison · Paramount Skydance · Warner Bros. Discovery | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-24 | Police Experts Flag ICE Agent Vetting Failures as Agency Doubles Force Under OBBB Hiring Push
1 src ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-24 | The Intercept Documents Four ICE Deaths in One Week; Hearing Contradicts DHS Account of Salgado Araujo Shooting
3 src ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-23 | ACLU Data-Driven Report Finds ICE 'Too Broken to Be Fixed' Across Eight States in 2025
2 src American Civil Liberties Union · ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-23 | DOJ Withdraws Subpoenas Against New York Times Journalists and Their Relatives, Issued Under U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, After Judge Threatens to Quash Them
9 src Jay Clayton · New York Times · Kash Patel · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-23 | ICE Nears 600,000 Deportations as July Sets New Daily Arrest Record
3 src ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-23 | Seven Senate Democrats Kill CLARITY Act Over Trump Crypto Ethics Loopholes — August Recess Deadline Missed
3 src Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · Senate Democrats · John Thune | | reported |
| 2026-07-23 | Together Colorado Sues Town of Hudson Over GEO Group's Big Horn ICE Detention Facility Zoning
9 src GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-22 | Bloomberg: Lutnick and Hines Shaped GENIUS Act to Benefit Tether, Then Took Tether Jobs
2 src Howard Lutnick · Bo Hines · Tether · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-22 | Community Mobilizes Against GEO Group Plan to Reopen Rivers Correctional as 1,400-Bed ICE Detention Center in Hertford County, NC
3 src GEO Group | | reported |
| 2026-07-22 | House Passes SAVE Act via Must-Pass NDAA 217-209 While the EAC That Would Administer It Is Headless
2 src House Republicans · Election Assistance Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-22 | Loudoun County, 'Data Center Capital of the World,' Moves Toward Moratorium but Virginia Law May Block It
3 src Amazon | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-22 | Montgomery County MD: 18-Month Data Center Moratorium Advances to Full Council Vote
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-22 | NW Ohio ICE Detention Facility Board Blocks Public Comment, Moves Meetings to Restrict Protesters
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-22 | Project Delta Hyperscale Campus Rezoning Refiled in Stokes County, NC After Legal Void — Hyperscaler Identity Still Withheld
2 src DC Blox | | reported |
| 2026-07-22 | Residents Sue Guadalupe County, TX Over $500M Tax Abatement for CloudBurst AI Data Center Campus
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-22 | Shapiro Wins: ICE Withdraws Both Pennsylvania Warehouse Detention Plans — Berks and Schuylkill Counties
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-22 | Spokane County, WA Commission Divided Over Nine-Month Data Center Moratorium
1 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-21 | Charles County, MD Commissioners Scrap Data Center Zoning Amendment After Year of Pushback
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-21 | Cherokee County, GA Commissioners Unanimously Approve 30-Day Data Center Moratorium
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-21 | ICE Arresting Relatives Who Come Forward to Sponsor Migrant Children in Federal Shelters
2 src ICE · Office of Refugee Resettlement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-21 | ICE Has Stopped Publishing Detention and Deportation Data Since April 2026
3 src ICE · Deportation Data Project | | reported |
| 2026-07-21 | Kent County, DE Levy Court Passes First Data Center Restrictions: Industrial Zones Only, 300-Foot Setbacks
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-21 | Livingston County, MI Sheriff Signs 287(g) Agreement With ICE Without Board Vote; Becomes State's 8th Active Jurisdiction
1 src ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-21 | Tulare County Fair Board Tables Global Stack Fairgrounds Data Center Lease After 3 Hours of Public Opposition
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-20 | Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers, The Intercept Reports
1 src Google · ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-20 | ICE Issues 14-Site RFEI Signaling Shift from Renting to Owning Detention Infrastructure
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-20 | ICE Issues RFP for Detention at 14 More Sites as July Spending Hits Year-High $2.5B
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-20 | Roxbury NJ Warehouse Detention Saga: DHS Reverses to Proceed July 13, Then Walks Back to 'Continuing to Assess' in July 20 Court Filing
3 src Department of Homeland Security · ICE · Mikie Sherrill · Jennifer Davenport · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-17 | DOJ Ultimatum to Milwaukee on ICE Mask Ban Passes Without Resolution; Supremacy Clause Standoff Active
3 src Department of Justice | | reported |
| 2026-07-17 | GEO Group Employee Arrested After Shooting Woman Protester Outside Aurora ICE Detention Center
1 src GEO Group | | reported |
| 2026-07-17 | ICE Illegally Shared Medicaid Data on Millions With Palantir ELITE Deportation App
2 src ICE · Palantir | | reported |
| 2026-07-16 | Judge Sykes Enjoins ICE Over Adelanto Conditions, Appoints Two Independent Monitors for Duration of Suit
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · GEO Group · Adelanto ICE Processing Center · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-16 | OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic CEOs Converge on Mandatory Pre-Release Scrutiny and US-Led Global AI Governance Body
3 src Sam Altman · Dario Amodei · OpenAI · Anthropic | | reported |
| 2026-07-16 | Paramount-WBD Antitrust Hearing Scheduled July 16 in Faust Subscriber Suit; Bonta-Led State-AG Coalition Complaint Drafting Concurrent
7 src Rob Bonta · David Ellison · Paramount Skydance · Warner Bros. Discovery | | reported |
| 2026-07-16 | Senate Banking Committee Report: Trump/Vought CFPB Rollback Has Cost Americans Up to $26.5 Billion
3 src Elizabeth Warren · Russell Vought | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-16 | Trump Primetime Address Pushes SAVE America Act on Unsupported Claims; DC Circuit Reinstates USPS Ballot Barcode Rule
4 src Donald Trump · United States Postal Service | | reported |
| 2026-07-16 | Venezuelan Man Dies on ICE Transport Bus From Irwin County, GA — 22nd In-Custody Death of 2026
3 src ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-15 | ACLU Sues to Block Completed DOJ National Voter Database as August 5 Purge Blackout Looms
3 src Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | Deputy AG Blanche Endorses ICE at 2026 Polling Places, Declines to Promise Compliance With Anti-Intimidation Law
3 src Todd Blanche · Steve Bannon · Ed Markey · Department of Justice · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | DHS Halts Most ICE Traffic-Stop Arrests After Three Deaths in a Week; Trump Reverses the Halt Within 24 Hours
3 src Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | DOJ Files First-Ever Application to Activate Dormant Alien Terrorist Removal Court in 30-Year History
5 src Department of Justice · Trump Administration | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | Emails Show Entergy Arkansas Co-Drafted Pulaski County Moratorium That Exempts Its Own $6B Prospective Customer
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | Hamilton County, TN Commissioners Vote Unanimously for One-Year Data Center Moratorium
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-15 | Hochul Signs EO 62 — First Statewide Hyperscale Data Center Moratorium as 20+ Localities Move in One Week
3 src Kathy Hochul | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | HRW/ACLU 84-Page Report Documents Systematic Abuse at Fort Bliss's Camp East Montana
3 src Human Rights Watch · American Civil Liberties Union | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | ICE Agents Carry Real-Time Facial Recognition Smartphones for Street Biometric Checks
2 src ICE | | reported |
| 2026-07-15 | Palm Beach County Rejects 'Project Tango' Hyperscale AI Campus 5-1 After 12-Hour Hearing
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-15 | Saline Township MI Caps Oracle/OpenAI Tax Abatement 9x, Then Reverses Under 'Shall Approve' Legal Threat 72 Hours Later
4 src Oracle · OpenAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-15 | Todd Blanche, Trump's Former Personal Defense Lawyer, Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing for Permanent Attorney General
1 src Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Senate Judiciary Committee | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Federal Judge Orders Wilmington, OH to Redo Three Ordinances for Amazon's $4B Data Center — Open Meetings Violation
2 src Amazon Web Services | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds Pour Record $53.9B into US Tech and AI in H1 2026
2 src Mubadala · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed · Donald Trump | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | ICE/CBP Surveillance Tech Spending Hits $513M in 2026; Palantir Named 'Backbone' With $1B Follow-On Agreement
3 src Palantir · ICE · Customs and Border Protection | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Justices Barrett and Kagan Testify to Congress on Ethics; Kagan Backs Independent Enforcement Panel
3 src Amy Coney Barrett · Elena Kagan · United States Congress | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Leon County, TX Commissioners Reject Crusoe Technologies' $34B Tax Abatement Application — 200+ Residents Oppose
1 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Merrillville, IN Council Unanimously Tables Rescission of Anti-ICE-Detention Resolution, Defying AG Rokita's $10K Threat
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Orange County, NY Town Board Votes to Oppose $35.5M ICE Warehouse Lease; Governor Demands Disclosure
2 src Kathy Hochul | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Raskin to Acting AG Blanche: DOJ Pattern of Defying Court Orders 'Strongly Suggests' Prosecutors Ordered to Violate the Law
2 src Jamie Raskin · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice | | reported |
| 2026-07-14 | Supreme Court Rules for Trump in Slaughter, Erasing 90-Year Humphrey's Executor Precedent on Agency Removal
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-14 | Trump Personal Attorney Schwartz Confirmed to Second Circuit 50-45; Total Reaches 281 Article III Judges
2 src United States Senate | | reported |
| 2026-07-13 | Federal Judge Voids Trump's $1.8B IRS Settlement, Finds Bad Faith, Refers Attorney to Bar
2 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-13 | ICE Agents Fatally Shoot 26-Year-Old Colombian Man in Biddeford, Maine — No Body Cameras Worn
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Angus King · Markwayne Mullin | | reported |
| 2026-07-13 | ICE Arrests 30+ Kansas City Residents During World Cup Matches, Including Warehouse Raid
2 src ICE | | reported |