{"id":144131,"date":"2026-01-30T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144131\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:15:20","slug":"lawyers-fight-ice-for-access-to-their-clients-texas-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144131\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Fight ICE for Access to Their Clients: Texas Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769536519_186_.png\" data-alignment=\"center\" data-size=\"embedded\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Attorneys are scrambling to find and make contact with clients caught in the Trump administration\u2019s nationwide deportation blitz. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Beth Wang, a reporter covering New York courts. Maia Spoto, Megan Crepeau, and I\u2019ve spent months digging through federal courts filings and interviewing attorneys to understand what\u2019s happening at ICE detention centers from Los Angeles to New York City to Dilley, Texas. <\/p>\n<p>What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they\u2019re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attorneys are scrambling to find and make contact with clients caught in the Trump administration\u2019s nationwide deportation blitz.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60426,3436,10638,60425,16609,60424,60430,60427,12917,60429,27,29,28,60428,6506,49351],"class_list":["post-144131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-articles-of-incorporation","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-corporate-officers","tag-criminal-conspiracy","tag-deportation","tag-horizontal-mergers","tag-indictment-and-information","tag-pawn-loans","tag-preliminary-injunctions","tag-state-tax","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trade-sanctions","tag-voting-rights","tag-wire-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}