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According to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research group that tracks immigration enforcement data, over 6,000 detainees have come through the facility during fiscal year 2025. Susan Long, co-founder of the Syracuse University research group, said immigration enforcement processing centers play a significant though not widely known role in immigration enforcement. They give immigration agents a place to register new detainees and hold them overnight if necessary.Immigration agents have begun using the Chicago-area facility significantly more, data obtained by Long’s group via the Freedom of Information Act shows.
During fiscal year 2024 and preceding years, almost no one was staying at the facility overnight, Long said. By June of 2025, the number of people staying overnight had reached 30 per night. It’s unclear how many people have been staying at the facility overnight since the start of the blitz.
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