A newly released memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reveals that the Trump administration can now deport migrants to countries where they have no prior ties, sometimes with as little as six hours' notice.

Immigrants who arrive illegally in the U.S. may be detained for months or years as they await a resolution to their immigration cases.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren’t written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, detention centers operate under a patchwork of different standards.

The memo instructs ICE employees on how to deport people to countries other than their country of origin, in some cases in as little as six hours.

ICE’s new annual budget places the federal agency among the top 20 most well-funded militaries in the world, sitting between Canada, which spent roughly $29.3 billion in 2024, and Turkey, which spent $25 billion last year.

The son, Marine veteran Alejandro Barranco, told Military.com after the arrest that he initially "couldn't believe" the video depicting his father being repeatedly punched in the head by federal agents as they pinned him to the ground.

A group immigrants and legal advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants who appear at immigration courts for previously scheduled hearings and placing them on a fast-track to deportation.

"There's never been a time where immigration detention hasn't been deadly, so it's just inevitable that the more people we detain, the more people who are going to die," Anthony Enriquez, the vice president of U.S. advocacy and litigation at RFK Human Rights, told Newsweek.