Amy Zeidan, MD

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NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 propublica.org/article/trump-…

Where has ICE been most active this year? @nytimes answers that question with some essential data-driven journalism here 👇 nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…

This is HORRIFYING and should scare all of us. ICE is holding people at secret locations for days. We’re demanding immediate answers and a top-to-bottom overhaul of ICE.

Pregnant in ICE Detention: Handcuffs and Pleas for Medical Care Women describe conditions that violate longstanding agency guidelines for how pregnant detainees should be treated. nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…

A peer-reviewed research published in International Migration Review provides the most comprehensive data on unaccompanied minors in U.S. immigration court in nearly a decade. The findings are deeply troubling. 🧵

As Predicted, ICE Reports Another Detention Death While Congress Does Nothing: 2nd This Week, 13th This Year, 42nd Under Trump austinkocher.substack.com/p/as-predicted…

@stlpublicradio The fundamental question I keep coming back to: do we actually need to detain 70,000 (or even 100,000) people? I don't think so. We cannot detain our way out of this. We need smarter, evidence-based approaches that don't rely on mass incarceration.

@stlpublicradio The risks are real. Evidence across many years shows the task force model can exacerbate racial profiling, lead to unlawful arrests, and generate lawsuits that cost local taxpayers significant money with oversight mechanisms now largely gutted inside DHS.

@stlpublicradio Local agencies sign on for different reasons, some see it as interagency cooperation, others as a political signal. But the Trump admin has changed the financial calculus: it now says it will pay for training time & financial incentives for enforcement activity under 287(g).

@stlpublicradio More than 60 individual 287(g) agreements have been signed in Missouri alone. In O'Fallon, a routine traffic stop landed a former DACA recipient in a jail after being handed over to ICE. These agreements make every interaction with local police a immigration enforcement event.

@stlpublicradio The task force model allows local officers to ask about immigration status during routine traffic stops and 911 calls out in the field. It is the most concerning model, and it is now the most common one being signed across the country.

@stlpublicradio There are 3 types of 287(g) agreements. The jail model lets officers check immigration status at booking. The warrant model lets officers execute immigration warrants. The task force model, now the dominant form in Missouri and nationally, is the most expansive.

Immigration research still matters. I'm grateful to Brian Munoz at @stlpublicradio for interviewing me on 287(g) agreements, and to everyone who has been reading and sharing my work. Here's what we covered. 🧵

How $154.62 in Gift Card Fraud Led to a Man’s Death in ICE Detention documentedny.com/2026/03/13/cha…

ELEVEN people have died in ICE detention in the first nine weeks of 2026. At this rate, ICE is set to once again break records for the deadliest year of ICE detention.

As ICE moves to massively expand immigration detention through the purchase of warehouses around the country, the best example of what these places might look like comes from Camp East Montana, which opened in August and now holds over 3,000 people per day in terrible conditions.

To take a shower, detained double amputee at Stewart has to take off his prosthetics and crawl along the bathroom floor covered in mold, blood, food and semen. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…

Detention Reports has been updated to include a national map of all active ICE detention facilities that link to individual facility reports. Learn about this new feature and other new features at my latest post: austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-sou…

ICE has likely already paid close to half a billion dollars to purchase commercial warehouses to use as detention camps. It will have to spend billions more converting them into makeshift detention centers to hold thousands in buildings not designed for human habitation.