Washington D.C.—Today, Human Rights First and Refugees International released an update of its Banished by Bargain: Third Country Deportation Watch tracker that exposes the growing scale, secrecy, and ...

Washington, D.C. — In March 2026, overall U.S. immigration enforcement flights reached a record high of 1,794, a 122% increase over March 2025, according to Human Rights First’s latest ICE Flight ...

Under the Remain in Mexico policy (RMX), the Department of Homeland Security forced asylum seekers to wait in dangerous Mexican border cities while their U.S. immigration court cases were pending.

In early 2025, the second Trump administration began detaining immigrant families and children, and by April, the Dilley Immigration Processing Center (“Dilley”) became the sole active family ...

Today, on the anniversary of the day when the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty was approved, we asked our Senior Director of Accountability Adam Keith some questions about the ICC, its ...

In a world where information is power, the erosion of press freedom strikes at the core of democracy itself. In 2024, the fight for truth has never been more crucial, and the stakes have never been ...

A new report from Human Rights First and Refugees International reveals systemic and grave human rights abuses by the Trump administration against asylum seekers in U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...

Washington, D.C. — ICE Air Operations has been dramatically expanded under the second Trump administration, operating with minimal transparency or public oversight. Human Rights First’s ICE Flight ...

Yearly cost to U.S. taxpayers of a prisoner in a maximum security federal prison: Approximately $78,000. Yearly cost to hold each detainee at Guantánamo: More than $10 million. Annual cost to operate ...

Government records received by Human Rights First from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum office through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show years-long, systemic ...

Each year, the U.S. government provides billions of dollars in training, weapons, and other assistance to foreign security forces – including in countries where such forces have been accused of ...

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics, that are legally ...