The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for September 22, 2026. We recorded 1 event from September 21, 2026 that erode our democratic ideals and added 15 more from earlier dates — 326 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 2204. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

Whistleblower report described ICE holding hundreds in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions at Florida's Miramar and Orlando facilities

Event: September 21, 2026 Location: Miramar and Orlando, Florida Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Corrections abuse

A whistleblower report shared with House Oversight Committee Democrats and disclosed September 21, 2026 found U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding detainees in severely overcrowded, unsanitary conditions at its Miramar and Orlando, Florida facilities, including detainees shackled for up to 16 hours a day and confined without fresh air for up to two weeks. Reps. Robert Garcia, Bennie Thompson and Maxwell Frost wrote to ICE's acting director and the DHS inspector general demanding an investigation, saying ICE was "simultaneously attempting to cover up these horrific practices." The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.

People & Organizations: - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement#5ac0f506 (ICE)

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/09/21/federal-corrections-abuse-82db4501/ Primary source: Oversight Ranking Members Robert Garcia, Bennie Thompson, and Maxwell Frost Demand Answers From ICE on Dangerous Conditions in Florida Immigration Facilities

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we've archived over the past day. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• November 14, 2025 — CBP agents released K9 on Vancouver, Washington man during ruse arrest; DHS account of resistance disputed by senator, eyewitness
• November 20, 2025 — Spotlight PA investigation revealed Shapiro administration spent taxpayer funds on governor's private home security before ethics clearance
• November 25, 2025 — St. Paul police fired pepper balls, chemical munitions into ICE-protest crowd, injured journalists
• December 1, 2025 — DHS settled with Florida, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa to gain nationwide driver's-license network access for its SAVE citizenship-screening system
• December 2, 2025 — Trump called Minnesota's Somali community and Rep. Ilhan Omar 'garbage' at a Cabinet meeting
• December 3, 2025 — Border Patrol agents chased a US citizen on foot to her Marrero, Louisiana home after mistaking her for someone else
• December 4, 2025 — Riverside County accused of stonewalling journalist's public-records requests on 46 in-custody jail deaths
• December 5, 2025 — HSI agents pepper-sprayed a Tucson crowd that included Rep. Grijalva during an immigration raid
• August 7, 2026 — ICE detained Kentucky State basketball player Aminata Seck over what her attorney says was a missed student-visa deadline; held six weeks
• August 15, 2026 — ICE agents posed as electricians and cut power to a west Phoenix home to detain Edgar Martinez without a warrant, family says
• September 20, 2026 — Trump White House stripped CNN of its TV pool assignment as press ban escalated
• September 20, 2026 — Reporting revealed ICE had detained Concord nurse Maureen Wanjiru Ngure at a routine DHS check-in and transferred her to Louisiana
• September 20, 2026 — ICE agents pepper-sprayed 10 protesters outside Broadview, Illinois ICE facility, hospitalizing two
• September 20, 2026 — ICE agent shot and wounded Venezuelan immigrant during enforcement stop in Austin, Texas
• September 20, 2026 — ICE agents injured U.S. citizen during mistaken-identity detention in Evanston, Illinois

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