Transfers of ICE Detainees from the
Youthcare Facility
Seattle, Washington

Detainees Transferred
Number last 12 months 7
Out of total detained 18
 
Earlier years:
previous 12 months 3
FY 2005 2
FY 2000 0

Table 1: Transfers

During the most recent 12 month period for which data are available, 7 detainees were recorded as transferred by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from the Youthcare Facility. This is a special facility for housing juveniles. Use of this facility was handled by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A detainee leaves an ICE detention facility for one of many reasons. The individual may be simply transferred to a different ICE detention facility. Or the individual may actually leave ICE detention because they were deported, released under supervision while their cases were being decided, or leave for other reasons.

This report summarizes transfers from the Youthcare Facility. For more information on this facility please see additional TRAC reports in this series.

This report series is based upon analyses conducted by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University of 3.4 million government records tracking each individual who passed through an ICE detention facility during the past decade. The most recent 12 month period for which comprehensive data are available is for April 2007 through March 2008. See About the Data.

Trends in the Number of Detainees Transferred

Greater detail on long-term trends in ICE transfers from the Youthcare Facility are displayed in Figure 1. Here the month-by-month number of transfers are graphed against the backdrop of the total detainees leaving the custody of this facility. Transfers are displayed with darker shading while those deported or released appear with lighter shading.

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Figure 1: Month-by-month detainee transfers from this facility

Transfer trends for the last decade are summarized by fiscal year in Table 2. Year-by-year figures for the Youthcare Facility are given for the total number of detainees as compared with the number transferred from the facility. The percent of detainees that end up being transferred from the facility is also given. (As mentioned above, the remaining detainees end up deported, released under supervision, or leave ICE detention for some other reason.) Because data for all twelve months of the most recent fiscal year are not yet available, the FY 2008 numbers (October 2007 through September 2008) are estimated based upon reporting for the first six months.

Fiscal Year ICE Detainees
Total Transfers Percent
1999 0 0 -
2000 0 0 -
2001 0 0 -
2002 0 0 -
2003 0 0 -
2004 27 9 33 %
2005 19 2 11 %
2006 24 4 17 %
2007 17 3 18 %
2008 (est) 16 8 50 %

Table 2: Detainee transfers from this facility over the last decade

Transfer Details For the Last Twelve Months

Information on each of the transfers from the Youthcare Facility during the last 12 months is provided in the following table.

Book In Date Release Date Nationality Gender Reason Left DHS
Detention
DCO Transferred to DCO
03/10/2007 04/17/2007 Guatemala M Transferred Seattle, WA Florence, AZ (SPC)
08/16/2007 09/11/2007 Mexico M Transferred Seattle, WA Seattle, WA
07/22/2007 09/14/2007 Guatemala M Transferred Seattle, WA Houston, TX
03/14/2008 03/28/2008 Guatemala M Transferred Seattle, WA Seattle, WA
11/02/2007 03/10/2008 Mexico M Transferred Seattle, WA Seattle, WA
07/30/2007 11/24/2007 Honduras M Transferred Seattle, WA Seattle, WA
07/22/2007 10/19/2007 Nicaragua M Transferred Seattle, WA Seattle, WA

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