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President Donald Trump has promised to detain and deport historic numbers of immigrants. There was an initial surge in arrests in the days after Trump’s inauguration, though arrest numbers have sunk back down to Biden-era levels, according to the most recent data available through mid-February.
Still, the number of people in detention is climbing. As of Feb. 9, immigration detention centers nationwide held 41,169 people, more than half of whom had no criminal charge or conviction, according to data from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonprofit that maintains immigration data online. That’s the greatest number of immigrants detained since before COVID.
Currently New York State has three jails where detained immigrants are housed, including one in Buffalo, one in Orange County, and one in Clinton County, which house around 600 people, according to the most recent TRAC data available.
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