NEWS ALERT! June 2025 Sees Over 50,000 in ICE Detention — Your Rights if You’re Held Now
- Shan Potts
- Jun 11
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 12
In a record-setting month, over 50,000 immigrants are now in ICE detention, making June 2025 the highest monthly total in over a decade. But this isn’t just about detention numbers — it’s part of a broader, coordinated shift toward aggressive immigration enforcement, powered by new technologies and expanding alien registration efforts.
What’s Fueling the Surge?
The increase in detentions is being driven by a combination of:
Targeted raids at worksites, homes, and public spaces
Warrantless courthouse arrests of people attending hearings or filing paperwork
Renewed focus on prior deportation orders and low-level criminal offenses
And now, most critically: enhanced data sharing through alien registration initiatives
Since early 2025, DHS has quietly expanded mandatory alien registration databases, using visa application history, biometric records, and driver’s license databases to track individuals — even those without current violations.
What used to be administrative is now turning into enforcement. Being registered doesn’t protect you — it often flags you.
How Alien Registration Connects to Detention
Under the current system, when you enter the U.S. as a noncitizen — whether through a visa, asylum claim, or adjustment of status — your Alien Registration Number (A#) becomes the anchor of your file in government systems.
But in 2025, this number is being used far more aggressively:
ICE can automatically match A# records to DMV data and public benefits databases
Those with pending or closed cases are being re-flagged for enforcement through the system
Even individuals with no current charges but prior removals or overstays are being swept into detention based on automated watchlists
What This Means for You
Whether you’re an asylum seeker, a green card holder, or someone who overstayed a visa years ago, you may now be visible and vulnerable in ways you weren’t before.
And if ICE acts on that visibility — detention can happen suddenly, and your ability to fight back depends on how quickly you respond.
If your A# is tied to any old case — even if you think it's resolved — it may already be activating triggers in ICE’s system.
Our Firm’s Position — and What We’re Doing Now
At Shan Potts Law Offices, we’ve seen firsthand how people are being detained not for new violations — but because they exist in a database.
We are currently:
Challenging unlawful detentions tied to alien registration misuse
Reopening removal orders triggered by outdated A# records
Filing Motions to Reopen for clients swept up in automated enforcement
Hosting free legal screenings for anyone who has an alien registration number and an unresolved past case
Next Steps: Protect Yourself Before It’s Too Late
If you’ve ever had an immigration case, or if your family member is currently in detention, take action immediately
ICE is using technology to find you — we use the law to protect you.
Don't assume you’re safe because your case is “old” or “inactive.”In 2025, being in the system is the new risk. And we know how to fight it.
(Source: NY Post)
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