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The Guardian
November 7, 2025

An Arizona town is dreading plans to turn its prison into an ICE facility: ‘It’s morally objectionable’
By Lourdes Medrano in Marana


While Trump has repeatedly promised immigration enforcement efforts would be focused on undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes, statistics show that those being held in detention are primarily people without criminal convictions. As of September, 71.5% of the 59,762 immigrants in detention had no criminal conviction, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Many convictions involved traffic violations and other minor offenses.


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