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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency currently holds more than 58,000 people in jails nationwide, according to the most recent data, which is the highest number in at least five years amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push.
The trend is reflected in three New Mexico detention centers that have agreements with ICE to house detainees, according to a Source New Mexico review of data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse compiled from ICE’s response to its records requests. The number of ICE detainees in detention centers in Torrance, Cibola and Otero counties has steadily increased since April.
The TRAC data shows increases here every two weeks or so in the “average daily population” of detainees at each jail. That figure is the average number of detainees held each day divided by the number of days since Oct. 1, when the federal fiscal year began. (For example, if an ICE facility held four people on Oct. 1 and 6 people on Oct. 2, the average daily population on Oct. 2 would be 5.)
In two of three New Mexico jails with ICE agreements, the average number of daily detainees is the highest since at least September 2019, when TRAC first began publishing its detention numbers. Both have increased by more than 25% since this time last year.
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