SURPRISE, AZ (AZFamily) — The federal government has hit the pause button on the proposed ICE facility in Surprise in a deal with Arizona.
In an agreement filed in federal court Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal leaders will not move forward with the facility while the feds complete an environmental review.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit in April claiming the federal government skipped the required environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
The feds agreed they will not do any construction or retrofitting on the warehouse on Sweetwater Avenue, south of Waddell Road and west of Dysart Road while the environmental review is being done.
Federal officials must update the court every two months on the review’s progress. Once it’s completed, both sides must meet within 10 days and submit court paperwork for the next steps in the case.
Mayes said in an emailed statement that the pause is what’s best for Arizona.
“This agreement is a significant win for the people of Surprise and for the rule of law,” Mayes said. “Federal agencies must complete the environmental review process required by federal law before moving forward with these types of projects. My office will keep fighting to ensure the law is followed.”
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Amir stopped speaking. Kaleth stopped eating. Amalia lost consciousness in a detention facility and was given Tylenol.
These are not statistics. They are toddlers. And since Trump retook office, at least 500 babies and children aged 3 and under have spent time in ICE custody; 25 of them on any given day.
The facility holding them is the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, run by a private prison company called CoreCivic. It was closed under Biden.
Trump reopened it in March 2025.
Pediatricians call infancy and toddlerhood the most critical window of brain development in a human life — a million neural connections forming every second. Toxic stress doesn't just traumatize children in the moment. It rewires them. The damage can follow them for decades.
At least 175 babies and toddlers have already been held past the 20-day federal limit set by the Flores settlement, the court agreement that has protected children in immigration detention since 1997. During Biden's last year, zero children under 3 were held past that limit.
ICE says conditions at Dilley are safe, sanitary, and appropriate. Attorneys who have visited the facility nine times called that account "fanciful." Lights stay on all night. Stuffed animals are banned from sleeping areas.
Parents have hidden cereal in their socks so their children wouldn't go to bed hungry.
These children's families shared their photos and their names so you would know them. Remember them.
Sources: MS NOW / The Marshall Project investigation, June 2026 | Deportation Data Project, UC Berkeley | Flores v. Reno settlement, 1997 | American Academy of Pediatrics, Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health | Zero to Three | Columbia Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic
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May 23, 2026 - Hawaii just made history, becoming the first state in the nation to effectively ban dark money in elections. The new law takes a novel approach: rather than trying to restrict corporate speech, it redefines the powers corporations have in the first place — and political spending is not among them. The strategy, known as the “Corporate Power Reset,” was developed by Tom Moore of the Center for American Progress. And at least a dozen states are now working toward passing similar laws.
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- For breed: 2 day = 7,500; 3 day = 11,250
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- For arena: 2 day = 6,000; 3 day = 8,500
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Cliff Cash posted about the Phoenix FOX News Takedown Protest.
4/30 Thursday in Phoenix at 4pm
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511 W Adams St, Phoenix, AZ 85003
🚨BREAKING: SCOTUS guts Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by making it harder to challenge racially discriminatory maps. Today’s decision will threaten Black and brown political representation for generations in Southern states. Full story to come. Background linked.