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The New York Times
March 7, 2025
Private Prisons Are Ramping Up Detention of Immigrants and Cashing In By Alexandra Berzon, Allison McCann and Hamed Aleaziz
	In the earliest weeks of the second Trump presidency, immigrant detention has already started to swell. Congress currently provides funding to detain a daily average of 41,500 noncitizens. As of Feb. 23, the detained population in ICE custody hovered around 43,800. That number is expected to grow.....[Citing TRAC Detention Data and reports. External Link
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