WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke out against the dramatic increase in deaths and horrific conditions in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, including family detention, during the second Trump Administration. Earlier this month, the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association published a 22-year study of deaths in ICE custody. It found that the death rate in fiscal year 2026 is the highest in the entire study period-higher than any year on record, higher even than the COVID-19 spike of 2020. During this calendar year alone, 17 ...