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November 6, 2025

Nebraska converts prison into federal immigration center, aims to fill it by Thanksgiving


Nearly 60,000 people were being held in immigration detention by mid-September — a 51% increase since January, according to the nonprofit Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. About 70% of those detained have no criminal record, TRAC says. Many others have convictions for offenses as minor as a traffic violation.


Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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