{"id":1281,"date":"2025-06-22T07:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T07:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2025-06-22T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T07:18:11","slug":"ice-detention-numbers-have-reached-a-record-high-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"ICE Detention Numbers Have Reached a Record High \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"


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ICE Delaney Hall Detention Center in New Jersey.<\/span>Michael Nigro\/Pacific Press\/Zuma<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The number<\/span> of immigrants detained in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities across the country has reached a record high of more than 56,000, according to the agency\u2019s most recent data release<\/a>. The whopping figure marks the largest total detainee population in ICE custody since at least August 2019, when there were 55,654 immigrants detained. (ICE started<\/a> releasing semi-monthly detention statistics during Trump\u2019s first term per a mandate<\/a> from Congress.)<\/p>\n

As Austin Kocher, an assistant professor at Syracuse University who studies immigration enforcement, notes, this could possibly<\/a> be the highest number of detained immigrants on record. \u201cIt is certainly the largest detained population since ICE began reporting detention data during the first Trump administration,\u201d Kocher wrote in a Substack post<\/a> about the most recent data.<\/p>\n

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56,397 People Now Detained by ICE, Possibly Highest in HistoryLargest growth comes from people with no criminal histories, who now make up a third of ICE detention amid dangerous overcrowding and lucrative contracts for private contractors.austinkocher.substack.com\/p\/55654-peop\u2026<\/p>\n

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The spike in detention numbers comes as the Trump administration is doubling down on efforts to ramp up immigration enforcement with sweeping worksite raids<\/a> and courthouse arrests<\/a>. For several months, administration officials, under pressure to deliver on the president\u2019s mass deportation agenda, have expressed frustration with ICE\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n

During a May meeting at the agency\u2019s headquarters, White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller reportedly<\/a> chastised top immigration enforcement officers, demanding<\/a> a minimum of 3,000 arrests per day\u2014more than triple the average number<\/a> of this current term. \u201cAll that matters is numbers, pure numbers,\u201d a source with ICE told<\/a> the New York Post<\/em>. \u201cQuantity over quality.\u201d <\/p>\n

Miller, people familiar with the meeting told<\/a> the Wall Street Journal,<\/em> instructed the officers to cast a wide net and target places like Home Depot and 7-Eleven stores. In the aftermath of the aggressive marching orders, ICE conducted sweeping operations across Los Angeles, sparking protests and the administration\u2019s deployment of National Guard troops.<\/p>\n

This past week, Trump walked back<\/a> on a short-lived order<\/a> for ICE agents to halt immigration enforcement operations targeting the agriculture and hospitality industries. \u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to do worksite enforcement operations, even on farms and hotels, but based on a prioritized basis,\u201d border czar Tom Homan said<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cBut based on a prioritized basis. Criminals come first.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the numbers tell a different story. What is driving the growth in the number of immigrants detained by ICE, Kocher noted<\/a>, is people with no criminal convictions, only immigration violations. A recent Guardian<\/em> data analysis<\/a> also found that the agency\u2019s figures are boosted by an increase in detention of immigrants without criminal history. Between January and June, its reporting shows, there was an 807 percent spike in arrests of people without a record.<\/p>\n

To increase<\/a> the number of detention beds available, the administration is expanding lucrative contracts with private prison companies and reopening previously closed detention centers, including ones that failed<\/a> to meet minimum standard requirements. <\/p>\n

The record high detention numbers also raise concerns<\/a> about overcrowding, especially since the Department of Homeland Security is imposing<\/a> new rules restricting access by members of Congress to ICE facilities. The policy change followed incidents in recent days when Democratic lawmakers in Illinois, California, and New York were denied<\/a> entry to processing centers and detention facilities. \u201cIf ICE has nothing to hide,\u201d Rep. Bennie Thompson, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement, \u201cDHS must make its facilities available.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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