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While the focus recently has been on Texas’ “inhumane” immigration orders, barbed wire fences, buoys, and a backlog of nearly 2 million cases in the U.S. immigration court system, lost in the news cycle has been the latest update on migrants in U.S. ICE custody, as released by TRAC, or the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Latest data released on July 16th show there are now over 31,000 migrants in ICE detention. That’s an increase from June when the number was 29,613, and definitely a spike from a year ago when the number of detainees was 22,886.
ICE arrested 7,734 and CBP arrested 16,304 of the 24,038 people booked into detention by ICE during June 2023.
But want to guess how many have no criminal record? According to TRAC Immigration, the total is over 62 percent or a whopping 19,330. Many held have only minor offenses, including traffic violations. The number of convicted criminals in custody is 8,504.
The majority of detainees are in facilities in Texas – or a total of 9,892. The South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas held the largest number of detainees so far in FY 2023, averaging 1,259 per day as of this month, TRAC data shows.
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