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Asylum-seekers have paid over $2 billion in bonds since 2017 to be released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities pending their immigration proceedings, according to a new report.
The report by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse of Syracuse University found that since the start of Fiscal Year 2017 and through December, more than a quarter of a million bonds — 258,438 — have been paid to ICE officials for release.
The data, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, found that most of the bonds, 94%, were delivery bonds; only 5.6% of the bonds issued were voluntary departure bonds.
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