The U.S. government has broad discretion over the movement and transfer of detainees, who are routinely moved hundreds, or even thousands of miles to detention centers across the country, isolating them from family, legal counsel, and support systems. The process is intentionally covert, and is traumatic for immigrants and their families. Conditions during transfer are brutal. Under the second Trump administration, transfers have been particularly punitive, as the surveillance, harassment, detention, and deportation of noncitizens has increased exponentially. Data reported in early April 2026 shows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is currently holding 60,311 people in approximately 270 detention facilities across the country, and these numbers have only increased since the beginning of Trump II. Data...