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February 25, 2025

Texas and Mississippi have the largest backlog of immigrants in their detention centers
By Santiago Ospital


ICE's largest detention center is in Mississippi. With an average of 2,154 illegal immigrants, the Adams County Correctional Center was the facility with the most illegal immigrants in the entire country. That private prison near Natchez, Miss., is followed by the South Texas ICE Processing Center in the town of Pearsall, Texas, a two-hour drive from the border. That's according to agency data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) for fiscal year 2025 through early February. In addition to the tail end of the Biden administration, this data also includes the start of the immigration offensive of the Trump administration.


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