{"id":359,"date":"2026-06-02T16:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:39:36","slug":"they-were-detained-by-ice-then-they-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"They Were Detained by ICE. Then They Vanished."},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div><ul><li><span>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/li><li><i><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><\/i><span>Share on Bluesky<\/span><\/li><li><span>Email<\/span><\/li><li><span>Comments<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>This article was published in partnership with\u00a0<\/em>The Marshall Project<em>, a\u00a0nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. Sign up for their\u00a0newsletters, and\u00a0follow them on \u00a0Instagram,\u00a0TikTok,\u00a0Reddit, and\u00a0Facebook.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=357\">Trump\u2019s Top Economic Adviser Doesn\u2019t Seem to Get That People Are Struggling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>For about five <\/span>days in December, Abdullahi Mohamed seemingly vanished into the US immigrant detention system. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had detained him near Portland, Maine, and held him for more than seven weeks in Massachusetts. Then, without warning, ICE began moving him repeatedly across the country, from state to state and facility to facility, faster than his family could keep up. News of his whereabouts came to them in fragments: an email from his lawyer that he was in Mississippi; a phone call from the wife of a fellow detainee who said he was in Louisiana; and at one point, a call from Mohamed himself\u2014that lasted for about two minutes\u2014from an undisclosed airport.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer laid out what was happening. \u201cThey are doing this now more and more\u2014moving people without any notice,\u201d he wrote to the family in an email. The transfers, he explained, can block people like Mohamed from speaking with an attorney and make it difficult to file legal petitions in the right jurisdiction, while distressing families. \u201cThis is cruelty,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Quick and repeated transfers have become more common in President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, a <em>Marshall Project<\/em> investigation has found. From the final year of the Biden administration to the first year of Trump\u2019s latest term, the number of people transferred five or more times more than tripled. The number of people transferred out of state within 24 hours more than doubled, according to a <em>Marshall Project<\/em> analysis of ICE detention data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration lawyers say the many transfers not only cause undue suffering for people being detained and their families but have significantly undermined due process protections. Because detainees have limited access to phones while in transit, and ICE\u2019s detainee locator does not always reflect their real-time location, immigration attorneys say rapid transfers can leave people unreachable for hours or even days. Families can lose track of their relatives, while lawyers struggle to locate or speak with clients.<\/p>\n<p>During those gaps, attorneys say, some detainees have been  to sign forms affecting their immigration cases before they can speak with counsel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat often happens is that a lawyer or family member will show up to see somebody and be told, \u2018That person\u2019s not here, and we don\u2019t know where they are,\u2019\u201d said C\u00e9sar Cuauht\u00e9moc Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez, an Ohio State University law professor who focuses on the intersection of criminal and immigration law. \u201cEffectively, that person has just disappeared while in the custody of the US government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an emailed response to written questions, an ICE spokesperson said claims that transfers are being \u201cweaponized\u201d are \u201ccategorically false,\u201d and that \u201call detainees receive full due process.\u201d The spokesperson also said detainees have access to phones for contacting relatives and lawyers, receive a court-approved list of free or low-cost attorneys, and can be \u201ceasily\u201d located by relatives, lawyers, and media through ICE\u2019s online locator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite a historic number of injunctions, DHS is working rapidly and overtime to remove these aliens from detention centers to their final destination\u2014home,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed came to the US from Somalia in 1999 and applied for asylum, he told <em>The Marshall Project<\/em>. Federal records show that an immigration judge ordered his removal in 2001, and that his appeal was dismissed in 2002. Mohamed was allowed to stay in the US for years during a period when deportations to Somalia were difficult to carry out, as the country had no functioning central government and remained fractured by civil war. Under an order of supervision, he had to check in regularly with ICE for more than two decades to keep a valid work permit. He paid his taxes and had no criminal record, his family said. Eventually, he got married and settled in Maine, where he was working as a cab driver by fall 2025. ICE seized him in October when he showed up for a regular check-in.<\/p>\n<p>After several weeks in detention, he vanished. The decades Mohamed had spent building a life in the U.S. unraveled in less than a week. When his family spoke to him next, he was calling from Somalia. He had been deported. For his sister, Saynab Mohamed, and her daughter, Eza Nour, each update arrived too late and never from ICE itself. \u201cI think the whole point was to traumatize us,\u201d Nour said, \u201cand leave us with a lasting scar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Transfers have long been a feature of immigration detention. ICE uses a network of hundreds of facilities across the US and has  to transfer people for bed space, medical care, security and other operational reasons. But during the past year, attorneys say, those moves have carried higher stakes because the legal landscape around detention has changed dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, the Department of Homeland Security adopted a new interpretation of a 1996 immigration law: ICE could now treat people who had come into the US without being formally admitted by immigration officials as if they were \u201carriving aliens\u201d still seeking admission at the border, even if they had lived here for years before being detained. That made them ineligible for bond hearings before immigration judges. Before this shift, people could ask a judge to decide whether they were a flight risk or a danger to the community, and if they could be released while their immigration case continued.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in September, the Board of Immigration Appeals\u2014an administrative body within the Justice Department that sets precedent for immigration courts\u2014made that interpretation binding nationwide, largely cutting off immigration judges\u2019 ability to grant release and allowing ICE to detain people indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers turned to federal court to file habeas corpus petitions to challenge whether the government had the authority to keep their clients detained. Earlier this year, more than 200 petitions were being filed every day across the country. However, habeas petitions generally must be filed in the federal district where a person is detained. If someone is moved before a lawyer files, the petition has to be filed in the new location, setting up a cycle where lawyers may struggle to file before their clients are moved again.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, federal courts are divided regarding the legality of the government\u2019s new detention policy. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and is widely regarded as one of the most conservative federal appeals courts, is one of two that have backed the administration on the policy. Those three states are also home to \u201cDetention Alley,\u201d a cluster of sites that include 14 out of the 20 largest detention facilities in the country. Many are located in remote, rural areas, and together they have helped make the region a major hub for detention and deportation in the south. In the first year of Trump\u2019s second term, nearly three-quarters of the people ICE deported were last detained in a state covered by the 5th Circuit.<\/p>\n<p><span>Transfers can now<\/span> carry immediate legal consequences, attorneys say. The location where ICE sends someone often determines where a habeas petition is filed and which court gets to hear it. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to get as many people to the 5th Circuit as possible,\u201d said Dan Gividen, a Texas-based immigration lawyer who was deputy chief counsel for ICE from 2016 to 2019. \u201cIt\u2019s in no way surprising that ICE, [which] in many ways gets to forum-shop, gets to choose the judge, is sending people to this circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, the Department of Homeland Security adopted a new interpretation of a 1996 immigration law: ICE could now treat people who had come into the US without being formally admitted by immigration officials as if they were \u201carriving aliens\u201d still seeking admission at the border, even if they had lived here for years before being detained. That made them ineligible for bond hearings before immigration judges. Before this shift, people could ask a judge to decide whether they were a flight risk or a danger to the community, and if they could be released while their immigration case continued.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in September, the Board of Immigration Appeals\u2014an administrative body within the Justice Department that sets precedent for immigration courts\u2014made that interpretation binding nationwide, largely cutting off immigration judges\u2019 ability to grant release and allowing ICE to detain people indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers turned to federal court to file habeas corpus petitions to challenge whether the government had the authority to keep their clients detained. Earlier this year, more than 200 petitions were being filed every day across the country. However, habeas petitions generally must be filed in the federal district where a person is detained. If someone is moved before a lawyer files, the petition has to be filed in the new location, setting up a cycle where lawyers may struggle to file before their clients are moved again.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, federal courts are divided regarding the legality of the government\u2019s new detention policy. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi and is widely regarded as one of the most conservative federal appeals courts, is one of two that have backed the administration on the policy. Those three states are also home to \u201cDetention Alley,\u201d a cluster of sites that include 14 out of the 20 largest detention facilities in the country. Many are located in remote, rural areas, and together they have helped make the region a major hub for detention and deportation in the south. In the first year of Trump\u2019s second term, nearly three-quarters of the people ICE deported were last detained in a state covered by the 5th Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Transfers can now carry immediate legal consequences, attorneys say. The location where ICE sends someone often determines where a habeas petition is filed and which court gets to hear it. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to get as many people to the 5th Circuit as possible,\u201d said Dan Gividen, a Texas-based immigration lawyer who was deputy chief counsel for ICE from 2016 to 2019. \u201cIt\u2019s in no way surprising that ICE, [which] in many ways gets to forum-shop, gets to choose the judge, is sending people to this circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rapid out-of-state transfers have become more common. In Trump\u2019s first year back in office, ICE transferred nearly 41,700 people to another state within 24 hours, more than double the number the previous year, according to a Marshall Project analysis of detention data. The agency rapidly transferred more than 1 in 10 people out of state within the first day of being detained.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers can be left with little time to respond, said Cassandra Charles, a senior staff attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. \u201cIt seems that people are being transferred out of more favorable jurisdictions to less favorable ones,\u201d she said. \u201cThat puts the attorneys in positions where they have to file very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the time a lawyer is ready to act, the case may already belong to a different court. \u201cIt\u2019s like having the rug pulled out from under your feet,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><span>One move after<\/span> another kept shifting the ground beneath Diana Elizabeth Cartagena Hueso\u2019s case. Hueso and her husband were detained in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on January 27 while on their way to a doctor\u2019s appointment, according to a  granting her release. Hueso, a 29-year-old citizen of El Salvador, had passed a 2016 credible fear interview, a screening that allowed her to continue pursuing protection in the US. She filed an asylum application in 2017, according to her lawyer, Noemi Simbron.<\/p>\n<p>Hueso hired Simbron as her attorney a few weeks after being detained. \u201c[Because] they move people really fast, I make a commitment to the clients [who] retain me that I file a habeas within 24 hours,\u201d she said. Simbron filed the petition from a plane on Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Four days later, a federal judge in New Jersey ordered the government to give Hueso a bond hearing within 10 days and in the meantime barred ICE from transferring her out of state.<\/p>\n<p>But it was already too late. ICE had transferred her to Oklahoma the day before the judge\u2019s order, according to court records. On February 17, the same day the court said she could not be moved\u2014she was transferred again, this time to Texas. Two days later, ICE again sent her to Oklahoma. Simbron said Hueso was moved two more times within Texas after that, for a total of five transfers before she was finally released. She was detained for about a month.<\/p>\n<p>In the ruling, the judge criticized the government\u2019s handling of Hueso\u2019s transfers, noting that officials never clarified why she had been \u201ctransferred three times in two days.\u201d Her case, he wrote, reflected a broader pattern of immigrants being \u201cshifted repeatedly around the country without warning or explanation.\u201d The government\u2019s conduct \u201ccan now only be deemed intentional,\u201d the judge concluded.<\/p>\n<p>During Hueso\u2019s transfers, her lawyer and family had little idea where Hueso was, Simbron said. \u201cShe was moved away so many times, it was just so scary, like how fast they were moving her,\u201d she added. Simbron repeatedly refreshed the detainee locator, called the U.S. attorney\u2019s office, and waited for a call from Hueso. At one point, Simbron said, Hueso managed a single three-minute phone call to her family to say she had been moved. But as her lawyer, Simbron didn\u2019t get the chance to talk to her during these transfers, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hueso declined to speak with <em>The Marshall Project<\/em> because her immigration case remains active. Simbron spoke on her behalf, explaining that after her release, Hueso said the repeated shuffling caused fear and frustration. Hueso had known about the judge\u2019s order and kept bringing it up to officers, who told her she was \u201cgoing home,\u201d Simbron said. At first, she thought they meant New Jersey. Eventually, she realized they meant El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like mind games and gaslighting her,\u201d Simbron said.<\/p>\n<p>Communication gaps can carry serious consequences if ICE is asking people to make fundamental decisions about their cases\u2014including whether to keep fighting, accept deportation or sign documents they may not fully understand\u2014 while not able to speak with a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf an officer is saying, \u2018Yeah, you don\u2019t have any chance of staying in the US, this is the best option you have,\u2019 [detainees] don\u2019t have a lawyer who can actually look at the facts of their immigration case and tell them, \u2018OK, here are your options,\u2019\u201d said Tess Hellgren, a supervising attorney at the National Immigration Project. \u201cIt deprives them of agency over their case so much, and they\u2019re not getting the correct information about what their different choices are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an Oregon case last fall involving farmworkers detained in and near Woodburn, attorney Kelsey Provo wrote in a  that she and her colleagues raced to advise detainees because, from prior experience, they knew that \u201cICE transfers people out of the facility quickly.\u201d Provo added that \u201cboth prior to and after transfer, ICE pressures people to sign documents waiving important rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of those detainees was a woman identified in court records as M-J-M-A, a 45-year-old Mexican citizen arrested on October 30 on her way to work. She and more than two dozen others were taken to the Portland ICE facility, where Provo and her colleagues waited about an hour before meeting with the first detainee. M-J-M-A had entered the country legally in January 2025 and overstayed her visa, the government  in a court filing. , she wrote that she feared returning to Mexico and intended to apply for asylum.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the time Provo and her colleague met with her at noon, M-J-M-A had already been forced by an ICE officer to sign a document she didn\u2019t understand, according to her declaration. The officer also told her that if she didn\u2019t agree to be removed voluntarily, \u201cit would take a very long time for [her] to leave.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=356\">Trump\u2019s Top Economic Adviser Doesn\u2019t Seem to Get That People Are Struggling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The document she signed was in Spanish. It is a routine form that detainees and those undergoing immigration proceedings are asked to fill out. It lays out a detainee\u2019s rights and asks them to choose how they want their case to proceed. M-J-M-A selected the option on the form that waived her right to an immigration court hearing and requested that she return to her home country as soon as possible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Provo said a person has a right to consult a lawyer when answering the questions on the form \u201cbecause they are making important decisions about the future of their rights and what rights they want to exercise and what rights they want to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, at an evidentiary hearing, the ICE officer who had presented the document to M-J-M-A \u201cwas unable to translate lines from the form that he claimed to have discussed with and explained\u201d to her, the judge wrote . The officer\u2019s testimony raised \u201csignificant doubts about the quality and depth of communications\u201d with M-J-M-A \u201cas she considered her due process rights and made vital decisions,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n<p>When Provo and her colleague finally met with M-J-M-A, they had about 10 minutes before an officer ended the meeting, Provo said in her declaration. Shortly after, ICE officers shackled M-J-M-A and loaded her onto a bus headed to Tacoma, Washington. Nearly a full day would pass before she appeared in the detainee locator, and the earliest her lawyers could meet with her was about two days later.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, Provo was growing increasingly concerned that M-J-M-A, without access to legal advice, might sign documents affecting her case.<\/p>\n<p>But because M-J-M-A\u2019s lawyers had filed a habeas petition just eight minutes before she was moved out of state, the case remained before a federal court in Oregon. Hellgren, who worked with the legal team at the time, said that meant M-J-M-A could be released and that it was still possible for a court to step in and scrutinize what had happened to her. Without that intervention, what happened in her case may have stayed hidden, Hellgren said.<\/p>\n<p><span>Mohamed was moved <\/span>so rapidly during the final days of his detention that the narrow options his lawyer and family were pursuing never had a chance to materialize. They were no longer trying to reopen the case involving his old removal order, but were instead trying to get him released from detention long enough for him to get his affairs in order before leaving the country. In emails to the family in mid-December, his lawyer wrote that ICE had not responded to those requests despite weeks of calls and emails. He also didn\u2019t know whether the government had secured the travel documents needed to deport Mohamed, even as the family tried to determine if there was still time to file a habeas petition.<\/p>\n<p>Then, suddenly, ICE started moving Mohamed around the country. He eventually called his family from Mogadishu and relayed his deportation journey. In about five days, he told them, ICE had sent him from Massachusetts to Mississippi to Louisiana and then to Texas. From there, he boarded a deportation flight that crossed several countries in West, Central and East Africa, until he finally landed in Somalia. He said he had been beaten and shackled, and had endured long stretches without food or water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no family for me here,\u201d Mohamed told <em>The Marshall Project<\/em> from Mogadishu. \u201cNothing. No future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since his deportation, his wife has been in hiding due to her own immigration status. She spent hours on the phone with Mohamed, trying to figure out how to help him and what was left of the future they planned together, Saynab Mohamed said. \u201cWhen your partner for life is gone, you feel kind of lost,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi Mohamed said he has no way to support himself in Somalia, a country he hasn\u2019t lived in for decades. His parents are dead, and Saynab Mohamed, his only living sibling, is the main reason he had built a life in the U.S. To help offset medical and legal costs, his family has set up a GoFundMe.<\/p>\n<p>In the first year of Trump\u2019s second term, ICE detained and deported 13,500 people in much the same way as Mohamed. Within a week, they were first transferred from the facility where they had been detained for a lengthy period and then sent to a series of other facilities before being deported. This represents more than twice the number of people the US government had similarly deported during the previous year, an increase that far outpaced the growth in the overall number of people the government detained.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency\u2019s 2025 , when deciding on a transfer, ICE takes into account whether a detainee is represented before the immigration court. ICE will consider alternatives to transfer, especially if the lawyer is nearby and court proceedings are underway. The standards also say detainees are not told about a transfer until just before they leave the facility, when ICE notifies them they are being moved to another facility in the U.S. and not being deported. They are then given the new facility\u2019s contact information in writing, and the standards say ICE will contact the attorney of record.<\/p>\n<p>But much of the process that ICE uses to decide when and where to move someone remains opaque, attorneys say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rules are absolutely not clear,\u201d said Hellgren, who was part of the legal team that sued ICE last year for records explaining how the agency decides where to detain and when to transfer those in its custody. \u201cWe don\u2019t even know what all their own policies are because of the lack of transparency here,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the litigation last year, ICE ultimately produced a limited set of documents, including a three-page \u201c\u201d used when the agency moves someone outside the \u201carea of responsibility,\u201d meaning the geographic region overseen by a local field office. The checklist directs officers to document whether the detainee has an attorney of record in that region, immediate family ties, or a pending court case. If any of those factors apply, a senior official must approve the transfer. The form also says attorneys are to be notified of a transfer \u201cas soon as practicable\u201d and no later than 24 hours after it happens.<\/p>\n<p>In her experience, Hellgren sees no evidence that those factors are being considered. \u201cThe speed of transfers is so extreme,\u201d she said, \u201cit\u2019s hard to understand how they could be considering these factors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In late March, a federal judge in Minnesota extended an order that barred ICE from transferring people out of state during the first 72 hours of detention, a restriction meant to stop rapid transfers from cutting detainees off from their lawyers. The  also required ICE to ensure that the locator stays updated, and required that it provide free, private phone access to detainees while informing them where they would be transferred. Attorneys say broader reforms could follow the same logic by requiring ICE to give people notice of available legal help as soon as they\u2019re detained, and to provide the time and private space for meeting with lawyers, interpretation when needed, and access to relevant arrest and detention paperwork before they are transferred.<\/p>\n<p>After Mohamed\u2019s sudden removal, his family flew to Maine to retrieve his car and drive it back to North Carolina, where they live. They had to sort out the title and the rest of his belongings, Nour said.<\/p>\n<p>On the drive, they called Mohamed so he could guide them through the roads from memory. \u201cHe\u2019s American, he\u2019s telling us the roads,\u201d Nour said. \u201cHe knows it better than we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Methodology<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Marshall Project<em> analyzed <\/em><em>detention stint data<\/em><em> from ICE obtained and processed by the Deportation Data Project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Each row of data represents a detention stint, a person\u2019s period of confinement in a single facility. Many people have multiple detention stints as they are transferred from facility to facility throughout their stay in detention. The data includes a unique identifier for each person. Some people were detained for multiple stays in the period covered by the data.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We began our analysis by grouping the stints into stays, counting the stints and then calculating the time between the book-in and book-out dates of the person\u2019s stay, as well as the book-in and book-out of each stint.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Deportation Data Project\u2019s data contains records for people in detention between October 1, 2022, and March 11, 2026. We analyzed detention stays with book-in dates during the first year of the second Trump administration (January 20, 2025, through January 19, 2026) and the last year of the Biden administration (January 20, 2024, through January 19, 2025).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To identify detainees rapidly transferred to a different state, we ordered stints within stays by book-in date and identified the first stint that was in a different state than the initial stint. We then calculated the duration between the stay book-in date and the book-out date before they were first transferred to another state. If that duration was less than a day, the stay was included in the count of rapid transfers. We counted the unique identifiers within that set of stays to determine the number of people who experienced the rapid out-of-state transfers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To identify people who were rapidly transferred leading up to deportation, <\/em>The Marshall Project <em>identified stays where the release reason listed deportation. We then identified the longest stint of at least 30 days and calculated the duration between the book-out date and time of that stint and the book-out date and time of the entire stay. If that duration was less than seven days and the person was detained in at least two facilities after their longest stint, they were included in the count.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We also analyzed the entire time period covered by the data, comparing all available book-ins before the beginning of the second Trump administration to all book-ins after, and found similar trends.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<section><h3>This is how change happens.<\/h3>\n<p>One story at a time.<\/p>\n<p>This investigative reporting takes time too. Months of research. Weeks of writing, editing, and fact checking\u2014and putting together the photography, art, video, and audio that tell the stories in a new way, illuminating new perspectives and voices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We can afford to take our time because we don\u2019t report to oligarchs or corporations<\/strong>. <strong>We report to you, and for you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And the stakes are high. Democracy is on the defense. 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