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Over 15,000 or 72.5 percent of the current immigrants being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, (ICE), have no criminal records.
That’s according to the latest data analyzed by TRAC. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University data shows that as of March 27, 2022, 20,733 immigrants are in ICE detention. Of that number, a whopping 15,033 have no criminal record, also as of March 27, 2022.
Many more have only minor offenses, including traffic violations, TRAC says. Additionally, most of the immigrants are being held in detention facilities in Texas and Georgia. The Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia has the largest number of ICE detainees so far in FY 2022, averaging 1,117 per day, as of March 2022, TRAC says.
Additionally, ICE Alternatives to Detention (ATD) programs are currently monitoring 200,332 families and single individuals, according to TRAC data as of March 26, 2022.
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