‘Stuck in Purgatory’: ICE Detention in Louisiana Stretches On for Years

A series of compounding policy changes advancing President Trump’s mass-deportation agenda — including mandatory detention and third-country deportations — have left thousands of people held in Louisiana, one of the country’s largest ICE detention hubs, trapped in what attorneys describe as seemingly endless detention with little hope of release. The Louisiana Illuminator reports that detainees are spending months or years in remote facilities as avenues for bond and relief narrow.