The Republican governor said the facility at McCook — a remote city of about 7,000 people in the middle of wide-open prairies between Denver and Omaha — had between 50 and 60 immigrant detainees as of Thursday. The facility should be at capacity — currently 200 — by Thanksgiving, Pillen said.

A group of Virginia Democrats from both chambers is pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reinstall the federal workers who monitor the agency’s immigrant detention centers. The lawmakers say the employees of the Office of Detention Oversight (ODO),

Two reports find that the detention system is failing to provide detainees with adequate food, water, and medical care.

A U.S. Senate investigation has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide — with detainees denied insulin, left without medical attention for days and forced to compete for clean water — raising scrutiny about how the government oversees its vast detention system.

CoreCivic reduced its full-year earnings guidance after incurring start-up expenses tied to the launch several new immigration detention centers.

ICE wants to create a round-the-clock facility that could handle 6,000-7,000 calls per day related to immigration enforcement, it said.

Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff has released another report detailing alleged incidents of medical neglect in the nation’s federal immigration detention centers.

The Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Monday that the law allowing attorneys to recover their costs for prevailing against the government does apply to successful legal challenges to immigration detention.