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he administration is now detaining 35,000 illegal immigrants, the most since President Biden took office, according to new data released Tuesday that shows Homeland Security increasingly turning to Trump-style get-tough measures to respond to the record border surge.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had 35,589 people in detention on Sept. 10, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse reported.
The last time the rate was that high was at the start of the pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak caused ICE to empty its facilities as it sought to comply with court orders and social distancing guidelines.
Even as the pandemic waned, however, ICE had kept relatively low detention numbers, with only about 20,000 detainees in custody at the start of this year. As late as May, just before the official end of the pandemic emergency, the number was still roughly 21,000.
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