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While DHS has said the federal detention centers are at capacity, the number of people in ICE detention centers in Ohio has not increased since Trump began his push, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks the average number of detainees in ICE detention centers across the country.
The Seneca County jail averaged about 62 ICE detainees daily since Trump took office and about 63 daily in the two months prior; The Geauga County jail averaged about 50 ICE detainees daily since Trump's inauguration and about 51 per day in the two months before.
Ohio has a smaller share of unauthorized immigrants living in the state compared to other parts of the country, according to figures from the Pew Research Center.
Estimates show that between 75,000 and 175,000 people, representing between .63% and 1.48% of Ohio’s population in 2022, were unauthorized. Nationwide, unauthorized immigrants represented about 4.8% of the workforce.
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