Nathan Reynoso 
18 March 2026
LINDEN, Va. – Crude Accountability announces the publication of its new report, Homeland Insecurity: How ICE Implements the Trump Regime’s Remigration Policy Through Enforced Disappearance, Torture, and Mass Deportation, which investigates human and civil rights violations in the US by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The report examines alleged instances of enforced disappearance2 and allegations of torture and inhuman treatment while in ICE detention during 2025 across 21 states, pulling information from local jail publications, social media posts, news articles, PayPal, and interviews with immigration lawyers. The report also provides a contextual analysis of the Trump regime’s legal attacks against migrants and citizens alike.
Crude Accountability provides three cases of alleged enforced disappearance in the states of California, Maine, and Rhode Island, with potentially over 1,500 additional cases requiring further investigation. Alleged instances of poor food and water quality, denial of access to food and potable water, denial of medical care and medication, poor hygiene practices, and overcrowding were also uncovered during the course of our investigation.
This report builds upon the previous works of Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and ProPublica.
“Based on Crude Accountability’s initial investigation, the Trump regime, through ICE and CBP (Customs and Border Protection), appears to be forcibly disappearing migrants on a scale potentially larger than totalitarian regimes such as Turkmenistan, where enforced disappearance has been used as a tool to intimidate society at large and to torture the disappeared and their families.” The report continues, “In this context, the Trump regime is subjecting migrants and their families to a form of torture and creating an environment of fear throughout American society.”
Crude Accountability documents a seemingly systemic, tyrannical, and punitive effort to violate the human and civil rights of migrants and citizens in the United States, in apparent violation of the US Constitution, federal and national detention standards, and international laws that the US has ratified since the 1990s.
For inquiries, please contact: Kate Watters, kate@crudeaccountability.org
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- From left to right: ICE officers at the ICE facility in Chicago to observe enforcement operations, Oct. 3, 2025; ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in Los Angeles, California, June 12, 2025; ICE officers at the ICE facility in Chicago to observe enforcement operations, Oct. 3, 2025; ICE officers at the ICE facility in Chicago to observe enforcement operations, Oct. 3, 2025; Federal law enforcement and their partners assisting with immigration enforcement efforts in New York City, New York, Jan. 28, 2025; ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in Phoenix, Arizona.
DHS. “Remigrate.” X (formerly Twitter), October 14, 2025. https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1978175527329358094. ↩︎ - “Definition of Enforced Disappearances.” United Nations International Law Commission, https://legal.un.org/ilc/sessions/71/pdfs/english/cah_un_wg_disappearances.pdf. ↩︎