Socha Torres was wearing a USICE ankle monitor when she was taken into custody in Wisconsin Dells on a hold and deportation order for failing to attend an asylum immigration court routine hearing with her son.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
June 23, 2026
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Tuesday, Voces de la Frontera and allies held an impromptu emergency press conference in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) facility at 310 E. Knapp Street in Milwaukee to confirm that Diana Socha Torres, 42, and her 8-year-old son who are assylum seekers from Colombia were taken into custody around 7:00 a.m. by the USICE on Tuesday morning on a immigration hold and deportation order for failing to attend a routine asylum court hearing. According to Christine Neumann-Ortiz, the executive director of Voces de la Frontera in Milwaukee, Socha Torres was wearing an ankle USICE monitor when she was taken into custody by immigration enforcement agents.
Socha Torres and her partner (Fred) have been together for 20 years, lived in Wisconsin Dells for three years, and she along with her son had applied for assylum two years ago. Sosha Torres claimed in her assylum application that she was fleeing from terrorism, violence and economic instability in Colombia.
According to Socha Torres, she never received any notification from USICE in regards to a scheduled assylum immigration court hearing, which USICE allegedly claimed that she failed to appear with her son.
Socha Torres's attorney apparently filed an appeal in her case in May 2026 after USICE entered (filed) a deportation order on April 27, but USICE says, that they have no record filed for an appeal in their USICE system.
USICE processed both Socha Torres and her son detention in Milwaukee and was later transported to a Texas USICE detention facility on Tuesday.
Socha Torres and her 8-year-old son are no longer in Wisconsin.
Texas USICE detention facilities are known to operate with illegal inhumane conditions that include unhealthy food and conditions in order to coerced undocumented detainees to voluntarily sign documents for self-deport.
The detention immigration private prisons are operated by GEO Group and CoreCivic, also Akima Global Services under contracts with the federal government provide guard and security services at various USDHS and USICE detention centers and operations of facilities.
So far through June, 19 undocumented detainees have died while being held in USICE detention facilities in the country in 2026 compared to 33 deaths reported in 2025. Many of the reported deaths have been ruled as homicides.
In June 2026, USDHS announced, that it will no longer report the deaths of former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees who pass away within 30 days of their release from federal custody, according to CNN. But, USDHS will continue to report deaths that occur while an individual is physically inside a detention center, according to NBC News.
In January 2026, Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) reported that 84 undocumented immigrants were detained by USICE-CBP, according to the Worst of the Worst (WOW) website.
USDHS WOW website link https://www.dhs.gov/wow
For the State of Wisconsin in January 2026, it showed that more than 84 alleged undocumented individuals were being detained by USICE-CBP.
In Wisconsin, according to the WOW website, USICE has been operating in the following cities, towns and villages in Wisconsin.
The following data shows places in Wisconsin where USICE is active and the number of detainees arrested through January 2026.
Ashland (3), Hudson, River Falls, New Richmond, Baldwin, Woodinville, Sheboygan (3), Waukesha (4), Kenosha (6), Sturtevant (18), Racine (1), Wisconsin Rapids (1), Green Bay (1), Elkhorn (1), West Bend (1), Madison (1), Oxford (54), Milwaukee (8), Barron (1), White Water (1), Fond Du Lac (3), Wausau (2), Manitowoc (2), Baraboo (1), Superior (2), Appleton (1), Port Washington (1), Stanley (2), Eau Claire (1), Janesville (1) and Slinger (1).
Unconfirmed estimates by HNNUSA, indicate that in the last six months that more than 25 undocumented immigrants have been detained by USICE-CBP in Wisconsin. The number of undocumented immigrants detained in Wisconsin could be higher, since USICE doesn't report every arrest of undocumented immigrants in the state. Also, detainee's acquaintances or family members don't usually report that their relatives or friends have been detained by USICE.
So far, the State of Florida undocumented immigrant detention facility operated as Alligator Alcatraz has been closed, despite hundreds of undocumented immigrants that were held at the detention facility have disappeared without trace or record.
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with an effort to expand fast-track deportations throughout the U.S., in a legal win for the president's crackdown on illegal immigration.
The 2-1 decision by a panel of judges at the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia Circuit allows the Department of Homeland Security to carry out an expansion of the expedited removal process, which empowers federal immigration officials to deport some detainees without court hearings, CBS News reported.
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