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May 25, 2021

State bills banning private immigration detention gain traction
By Suzanne Monyak


In March 2016, during the final year of the Obama administration, roughly 31,000 immigrants were detained nationwide. By July 2019, that number swelled to more than 55,000, according to data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University research center.


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