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The Mississippi Independent
November 6, 2025
Mississippi’s ICE experience illustrates how race and geography determine who gets deported By Christopher Harress
	Nearly 80 percent of immigrants who appear before a Louisiana immigration judge are detained, compared with just 30 percent nationally, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a Syracuse University-based organization that collects immigration data. In conservative states, the figures are uniformly high: 71 percent in Arizona, 63 percent in Georgia, 53 percent in Texas. In liberal states, it plunges to less than 5 percent in New York, New Jersey and Maryland, according to the data set. External Link
	Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University Copyright 2025