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ICE has a policy: If you’re detained and have a final deportation order, your location will be hidden from the public detainee database. That means your family and even your attorney may have no idea where you’ve been taken. More than 20,000 detainees have reportedly disappeared from the locator system. And this isn’t a minor inconvenience. It’s against the law and the Constitution. Lawyers need to know where their clients are being held to file habeas petitions, challenge deportations and pursue whatever legal options remain. ICE can move people between facilities while families and attorneys scramble to find them. Look at Ann Lawani. A 39-year-old nurse and university professor in California, she was taken from her home in September. She was transferred through four facilities before her family learned she was in Louisiana. For days, her lawyer couldn’t even establish where to file her case. And it’s not just adults. The Marshall Project has documented ICE holding children and families in secretive locations where attorneys and relatives couldn’t find them. ICE has detained more than 8,750 children since Trump returned to office. Court filings document 86 children held for more than three days in February and March. An 11-year-old was held in a hotel for five days while his father was sent to an adult detention facility. A baby and two other young children were held without their mother for about 10 days. In Trump’s first term, they did the same thing, and over 5500 children were taken from their families. By December 2020, over 600 were still without their families Here’s what makes this even worse this time. ICE has already been taken to court and ordered to stop obstructing detainees’ access to lawyers. Instead of fixing the problem, they created another obstacle. They got caught denying access to attorneys, so now they’re making it harder for attorneys to even find their clients. A federal judge blocked Lawani’s deportation while her habeas petition proceeds. But how many people won’t or haven’t gotten that opportunity because their lawyers can’t find them in time? A deportation order doesn’t erase someone’s right to legal representation or due process. You don’t get to make people disappear from the system simply because you want to deport them faster.