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Back in February, the Biden administration issued an interim memorandum that instructed immigration agents to shift their focus to detaining undocumented immigrants who were suspected of terrorism, those who came the the U.S. after Nov. 1, 2020 and those with an aggravated felony. To immigrant rights advocates, this meant that many undocumented immigrants who lived in the country for years didn’t have to worry about deportation. But advocates say that this hasn’t been the case since Biden took office. According to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, 22,129 immigrants are in ICE jails, which is a 56% increase since Biden took office. Of them, 74% of detainees don’t have a criminal record.
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