Each time they are moved, they have to find a new place to sleep in overcrowded rooms, have to learn new rules for phone calls, have to tell family and attorneys to send documents somewhere else. Each time it takes days for the ICE detainee locator “system” to update.

If you start reading the details in all these court cases, you’ll see it over and over again: migrants being moved five times in a week. Being awakened at 2am for a surprise flight to a different facility. Being told they’re going to one state and ending up in another.

ICE flights are up 62% from last year, per @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social. There was an average of 49 ICE flights per day last month, and the vast majority of those were domestic shuffle flights between facilities, not removals.

If you don’t know, immigration attorneys have been sounding alarms that ICE appears to be using frequent shuffles between detention centers to exhaust migrant detainees, separate them family and their attorneys, wear them down and get them to sign “voluntary” deport papers.

It’s a torture tactic.