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A nonpartisan research group at Syracuse University says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is detaining fewer immigrants with serious criminal convictions – a trend also reflected in a review of detention data in Minnesota by 5 INVESTIGATES.
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The latest report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) Immigration Project found that while ICE is detaining more people overall in recent years. Fewer of those immigrants have been convicted of what ICE considers the most serious offenses, such as murder, assault, and drug trafficking.
TRAC's co-director Susan Long says her group bases its research on federal lawsuits and data directly requested from ICE.
"We ask for the information monthly, but that doesn't mean you get it monthly," Long said. "And Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't the most cooperative agency."
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