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California has nearly 8,500 beds across seven U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities, all of which are operated by private companies and located in the southern half of the state. As of late January, 6,412 of those beds were filled on average, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, also known as TRAC. That represents a significant increase from the same period last year, when the detention facilities were housing roughly 3,000 people per day. The increases in detainees follow an upswing in arrests and deportations across the state. California ranks third among all states in the total number of detainees. As of last month, Texas had more than 18,000 people detained and Louisiana had about 8,200.
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