Since the last update we finished mapping the country — every state and territory now has at least a baseline entry — and the story that emerged from that sweep is bigger than any single county: whether a detained immigrant gets a bond hearing now depends mostly on which federal circuit they’re sitting in. ICE has noticed, and started moving people to the circuits where the door is shut.

What Changed

We added 112 new knowledge-base entries since May 27 and refreshed the highest-activity states twice as June developments broke. Coverage now spans 53 jurisdictions (all 50 states, DC, and the territories — Guam and the Northern Marianas included). The build tracks 2,000+ scored counties, with 30 now in the “hot” zone (heat score ≥100). Broward County, Florida remains the single hottest county in the country.

We also fixed a quiet hole in our own machine: the commission-meeting scanner had been silently failing for months (a missing dependency), so county-board votes weren’t flowing in. It’s running again — and we retuned it to catch the pro-immigrant side of local government too, not just the contracts. That immediately surfaced things like Oklahoma County’s jail authority openly workshopping a detention center and a one-year detention moratorium ordinance in Bellevue, Washington.

Notable Signals

• The bond-hearing circuit split (3–2). After last September’s federal repeal of bond hearings for long-time residents, the appeals courts have split: the 2nd, 6th, and 11th Circuits restored the right to a hearing; the 5th and 8th upheld no-bond detention. The 1st, 7th, and 9th have heard arguments and not yet ruled. It’s almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court. (Full breakdown here.)
• Transfers as forum-shopping. In Tennessee (a 6th Circuit “yes-bond” state), ICE has been busing detainees to Louisiana (5th Circuit, no bond) — stripping the very right the local court would grant. In Nevada, a federal judge blocked exactly that kind of out-of-state transfer for a certified class.
• Alligator Alcatraz is closing. Florida’s Everglades mega-camp — roughly $1 billion all-in — was formally wound down; its last detainees are being transferred out of state (to California and Texas) rather than released.
• The Broadview Six case collapsed. The flagship federal prosecution of Chicago-area ICE protesters was dismissed over grand-jury misconduct; the lead prosecutor was fired. Illinois’s HB 5024 detention-siting ban passed the legislature June 1.
• Delaney Hall (Newark) boiled over. The detainee hunger/labor strike ran past day 11; New Jersey’s AG and governor sued GEO Group for inspection access, Newark moved to seek the facility’s closure, and the mayor briefly imposed a curfew after clashes.
• New facilities and oversight. DHS posted a contract for the shuttered 1,600-bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Minnesota; the first federal lawsuit hit Camp East Montana in El Paso (amid a measles outbreak); and a DHS Inspector General report documented a chokehold and food-safety violations at Winn (Louisiana).

Coverage Updates

• Full national footprint. New state build-outs since late May closed every remaining gap: West Virginia, Maine, Connecticut, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Delaware, plus Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and DC. Each documents how detention actually works there — often that it doesn’t happen locally, but feeds a pipeline to another state.
• Commission monitoring restored and widened. The local-government scanner now covers pro-immigrant and sanctuary actions (Immigrant Trust Acts, sanctuary ordinances, “know your rights” funding) alongside the contracts and 287(g) votes — the resistance side of the ledger, not just the enforcement side.

Numbers

Data current as of June 5, 2026. Contribute what you know — local knowledge is what converts signals into stories.