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"The impact of detention on detained immigrants can be devastating, separating people from their families and communities,” said Thomas Scott-Railton, an Immigrant Justice Corps fellow at the Bronx Defenders. “Detention can be particularly harmful — even fatal — for people with physical and mental health needs, because the health services at New York City–area detention facilities are woefully inadequate.”
The changes have contributed, in part, to a massive increase in the number of undocumented immigrants detained in ICE custody. Nearly 50,000 people across the country were held in ICE detention centers at the end of April 2019, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. This is almost double the number of people who were detained in 2015. Sixty-four percent of the people detained as of April 2019 had no criminal conviction, up from 39% in early 2015.
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