ICE Is Making People Vanish. Congress Must Act.

Any Lopez Belloza was a 19-year-old college freshman trying to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. Instead, she was arrested at a Boston airport, shackled, secretly transferred to Texas — and deported to Honduras before her attorneys even knew she'd left Massachusetts.

How? Because the federal system designed to track detained immigrants failed.

The ICE Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS) was created in 2010 so that families, lawyers, and journalists could find people swept up in immigration detention. Before 2025, ICE was required to add detainees to the system within eight hours of arrival. Now, reports show that many detained individuals never appear in the system at all — or are deported before their location is ever recorded.

A bipartisan group of 36 lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, is calling it what it is: the federal government is creating "disappearances" on U.S. soil.

Tell Congress to finally pass DHS and ICE reforms, restore funding to the DHS Inspector General’s office, and launch a full investigation now.

There are currently more than 70,000 people in ICE detention — transferred constantly between jails, private facilities, military bases, and federal prisons. Without a functioning locator system, families have no way to find their loved ones. Attorneys cannot file petitions in time. Courts cannot intervene.

In Any's case, her attorneys filed an emergency petition in Massachusetts — while ICE was flying her out of Texas. The Trump administration later called her deportation a "mistake." She remains in Honduras.

The DHS Inspector General has been asked to investigate — but they say they can't act because their office has been shut down for eight weeks. Congress must step in.

Demand Congress pass immediate ICE and DHS reforms to end the shutdown, restore the DHS OIG's funding, and mandate a full investigation into the ODLS — before more people disappear.

In solidarity,

Action Collective