Torrance, Cibola counties await no-bid ICE details to keep detention facilities open | Santa Fe New Mexican, April 2026
New Mexico Department of Justice urges state Supreme Court to stop Otero County ICE contract | Source NM, April 2026
Otero County extends federal immigrant detention contract again after first attempt deemed illegal | Source NM, March 2026
Attorney general: Otero County broke law with ICE contract extension | Santa Fe New Mexican, March 2026
Vasquez: Congress must be able to inspect ICE facilities | Source NM, September 2025
Vasquez visit unearths concerns at Otero ICE lockup amid push for more congressional oversight | Source NM, July 2025
By the #s: Two NM jails house record number of ICE detainees | Source NM, July 2025
Behind Detention Walls: Yofer’s Story | ACLU of New Mexico, March 2025
Bill would bar New Mexico counties from entering agreements with immigrant detention centers | Santa Fe New Mexican, February 2025
Migrant deaths and disappearances are part of Biden’s legacy on immigration —
The Biden administration leaves a sprawling and well-resourced deportation machine to Donald Trump, who is promising mass expulsion | Prism, January 2025
After Multiple Suicide Attempts, Jail Staff Left Man to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Says – Over the course of nine days at New Mexico’s Otero County Detention Center last June, Jacob Gutierrez repeatedly engaged in self-harm and survived multiple suicide attempts before taking his life. A lawsuit accuses jail staff of failing to keep him safe. | The Appeal, July 2024
Most Immigrant Deaths in ICE Detention Could Have Been Prevented — A new study reveals troubling patterns of medical neglect and official obfuscation. | Mother Jones, June 2024
Venezuelan asylum seekers placed in solitary in retaliation for hunger strike, attorneys say | Source NM, June 2024
The Public Has Never Seen the U.S. Government Force-Feed Someone — Until Now
In an exclusive video, a hunger striker is force-fed in ICE detention — lifting the veil of secrecy on a practice condemned by medical ethicists | The Intercept, Nov 2022
Otero County Processing Center now detaining women, guaranteed $2.3M monthly in ICE agreement | Las Cruces Sun News, Aug. 2022
ICE detainees face systemic torture at El Paso area immigration facility, new report says | El Paso Matters, Jan 2021
“Theater of Compliance”: New Report Details How ICE Escapes Detention Center Oversight – Complaints from more than 150 people locked in a for-profit immigration jail in New Mexico call ICE’s inspection process into doubt. | The Intercept, Jan 2021
COVID-19 outbreak at Otero County ICE facility | KOAT, May 2020
Advocates: Two cases of coronavirus detected at El Paso-area immigrant detention center | El Paso Times, March 2020
Trans woman who died after illness in US custody had asked to be deported, family says – Johana Medina León was denied medical care, says new legal claim: ‘She went to the US seeking protection and now she is coming home to us dead’ | The Guardian, June 2019
Conditions at Otero County ICE detention center raise concerns | NM Politics, Jan 2018
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