Detainees Leaving ICE Detention from the
T. Don Hutto Residential Center
Taylor, Texas
Detainees Deported or Released Number last 12 months 2,979 Out of total detained 3,536 Facility ranking on detainees top 7 %
Table 1: Number leaving ICE detention
from this facilityDuring the most recent 12 month period for which data are available, a total of 2,979 detainees housed at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center left that facility because they were deported, were released under supervision while their cases were being decided, or left ICE detention for one of a variety of other reasons. This is a special facility for housing juveniles.
Those individuals who departed from this facility because they were leaving ICE detention made up 84 percent of the 3,536 detainees housed at this facility during the last 12 months. This report focuses on the reasons these individuals left ICE detention. Sometimes this report speaks of these individuals as those "exiting" ICE detention, or simply as "exits." The others remained in ICE detention but were transferred from the T. Don Hutto Residential Center to other facilities.
This report covers those who left ICE custody. It excludes individuals transferred to other ICE facilities. For more information on this facility, including individuals that were transferred, 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 1.7 million government records tracking each individual who passed through an ICE detention facility during fiscal year 2015. This most recent 12 month period for which comprehensive data are available covers October 2014 through September 2015. See About the Data.
How This Facility Ranks Nationally
Rankings on the number leaving ICE detention. The T. Don Hutto Residential Center was one of 637 facilities nationwide that housed ICE detainees during the most recent 12 month period. Of these 637, there were 358 that had at least 10 individuals who were deported or released. Excluding those facilities with fewer than 10 exits, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center last year ranked in the top 7 percent nationwide in the number of individuals leaving ICE detention. This means that 7 percent of the locations contributed the same or a larger numbers of exits, while 93 percent had a smaller number. See Table 1.
Deportations. Nationally, the most common reason that a detainee left ICE detention was that they were deported from the United States. During the most recent 12 month period for which comprehensive data are available, nationwide 56.3 percent of those leaving ICE detention were deported or "voluntarily" departed. By way of comparison, a lower percentage of detainees (13 percent) left the country from the T. Don Hutto Residential Center because they were formally deported, or left under the so-called "voluntary departure" procedure.
Were Detained Individuals from the Local Area?
Information on the place of arrest was not included in the available data ICE released. However, we can examine whether the T. Don Hutto Residential Center was the first ICE facility in which these detainees were held. According to ICE records, for a few (5) of these detainees, the T. Don Hutto Residential Center was the first place they were sent when they were detained by ICE. Virtually all had been transferred in from another ICE detention facility.
We can also look at how quickly they arrived at this facility after they were first detained. A total of 11 percent arrived at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center at some point during the very first day they were detained by ICE. There was considerable variability among detainees in the number of detention facilities they had been held in before they were finally deported or released from this facility. The number of facilities ranged as high as 4 separate locations for some detainees. These figures again are based on an analysis of the most recent 12 months for which data are available.
For the United States as a whole, last year the average number of ICE facilities detainees moved through was 1.8. Detainees at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center on average had stayed at somewhat more (2.1) ICE facilities.
Reason Left ICE Facility Profile U.S Profile Number Percent Percent Bonded out 2,426 81.4 % 11.0 % Deported/Removed 372 12.4 % 55.3 % Paroled 104 3.4 % 5.2 % Orders of Recognizance or Supervision 69 2.3 % 19.8 % Alternative ATD custody 2 0.0 % 0.1 % Proceedings Terminated 2 0.0 % 1.3 % U.S. Marshal or Other Agency 2 0.0 % 4.5 % Prosecutorial Discretion 1 0.0 % 1.0 % Voluntary departure 1 0.0 % 0.9 % Died 0 . 0.0 % Escaped 0 . 0.0 % Release to ORR 0 . 0.1 % Withdrawal 0 . 0.2 % Total 2,979 100.0 % 100.0 %
Table 3: Reasons individuals left ICE detention during the last 12 months
Why Did Detainees Leave ICE Detention?
ICE records one of 29 reasons a detainee left ICE detention. As shown in Table 3, these reasons fall into 13 general categories -- from leaving because one is deported or removed, to leaving because one escaped or the individual died while in custody.
Deportation. As mentioned earlier, while nationally the most common reason that a detainee left ICE detention was that they were deported from this country, this was not the top reason at this facility. At the T. Don Hutto Residential Center only 372 individuals (12 percent) were deported or removed during the most recent 12 month period for which data are available. (ICE data did not distinguish between deportations and removals, and the terms are used interchangeably in this report.)
Bonded out. The most common reason a person left ICE detention from this facility was that they were released after posting a bond. A total of 2,426 individuals (81 percent) left the T. Don Hutto Residential Center because they were "bonded out." This generally covers situations where the individual posts a bond and is released while awaiting a decision on their deportation (removal) case. The amount of the bond is set by ICE, or by an Immigration Judge. Many individuals are not eligible to be released because their continued detention is considered mandatory under provisions in the immigration laws.
Parole. ICE also has discretionary authority to "parole" individuals and give them temporary entry into the country, often on humanitarian grounds. Individuals with serious medical conditions, pregnant women, and certain juveniles are among the categories considered. Other categories are individuals who will serve as witnesses in judicial or administrative proceedings, and individuals whose parole is considered by ICE in the "public interest." There were a total of 104 individuals (3 percent) who were paroled from this facility.
Orders. Orders are additional mechanisms that are sometimes used to release a person while their case is pending, or awaiting removal. Under an "order of recognizance" an individual is released with reporting conditions while in deportation proceedings and awaiting a final decision. A second type of order ("order of supervision") releases an individual after a final order of removal. Here an individual is released because ICE has not met the time limits the law imposes for deporting the individual. There were 69 (2 percent) who left the T. Don Hutto Residential Center detention for these reasons: 41 with orders of recognizance, and 28 with orders of supervision.
Escape and death. Nationally, there were 65 individuals who escaped ICE detention during the latest 12 month period for which data are available, and 6 individuals were recorded as having died in detention. No one was recorded by the T. Don Hutto Residential Center as either escaping or dying last year.
As shown in Table 3, no one was recorded as leaving the T. Don Hutto Residential Center during the past 12 months for the following reasons: Release to ORR and Withdrawal. See "Reasons for Leaving ICE Detention" for a description of these categories.
Comparing Release Reasons Against The National Picture
In many respects release reasons for the T. Don Hutto Residential Center departed from the national picture. It was the case that a lower proportion left because they were deported from this facility (12 percent) than was true for the U.S. as a whole (55 percent).
In addition, differences were seen for individuals released on bond (81 versus 11 percent), detainees released on orders of recognizance or supervision (2 versus 20 percent), and those released to the U.S. Marshal or other agency (0 versus 5 percent).
The facility's percentages fell within 3 percentage points of the national figures for all other categories.
Nationalities
Which nationalities predominate? Last year in the United States, individuals from Mexico comprised the largest number of those leaving ICE detention. Some 43.4 percent of all detainees recorded Mexico as their country of origin. The T. Don Hutto Residential Center had a much smaller proportion of detainees from Mexico - 3 percent among their exits. Detainees from Mexico were not the largest single nationality group among those leaving detention from the facility.
In descending order, the top nationalities that made up those leaving ICE detention from the T. Don Hutto Residential Center last year were: El Salvador (36%) , Honduras (25%), Guatemala (20%), Ecuador (5%) and China, Peoples Republic Of (5%).
This compared to the United States as a whole where the other top five nationalities after Mexico were Guatemala (19%), El Salvador (15%), Honduras (12%) and Ecuador (1%).
For the frequency for each of the other nationalities among those leaving ICE detention from the T. Don Hutto Residential Center last year see Table 4.
Deportations and voluntary departures by nationality. Within the nationalities that made up those listed in Table 4 with more than one individual, the proportion deported or voluntarily departing varied from 0 percent to 38 percent. As mentioned above, this compares with 13 percent for all detainees.
Nationalities Ranked in Top 10 Left ICE Detention Total Deported/
Voluntary
DeparturePercent - ALL 2,979 373 12.5 % 1 El Salvador 1,076 0 0.0 % 2 Honduras 732 160 21.8 % 3 Guatemala 589 166 28.1 % 4 Ecuador 152 0 0.0 % 5 China, Peoples Republic Of 150 0 0.0 % 6 Mexico 102 39 38.2 % 7 Nicaragua 38 0 0.0 % 8 Peru 22 5 22.7 % 9 India 18 0 0.0 % Nepal 18 0 0.0 %
Table 4: Numbers leaving ICE detention by nationality
during the last 12 months
With the highest rate of 38 percent were detainees from Mexico where 102 individuals were deported or took voluntary departure. More than one country was tied with the lowest rate, where detainees were deported or took voluntary departure.
