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“Immigration — it affects most individuals,” Long said. “We live in a democracy. For people to be able to meaningfully participate, they need to know what’s going on.”
The agency has nearly 66,000 people detained nationwide as of July 11, a jump from the last reported number in April, but still lower than a record high of 70,766 in late January.
The new data reinforced previous findings that the overwhelming majority of people detained by ICE do not have a criminal conviction.
Since October, on average, 6,412 people have been in detention on a given day across the eight California detention centers, 4,732 with no criminal record, according to a Times analysis of the data.....[Citing TRAC data and reports]
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