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Colorado Times Recorder
October 26, 2026

Along the Highway to a Proposed ICE Jail, Fighting for Immigrant Rights & Picking Up Trash Intersect
By O.G. Swallow


Akkerman pointed to data showing that 70% of people detained by ICE have no criminal charges. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data research organization at Syracuse University, found that 70.6% of those held in ICE detention have no criminal conviction and, of those who do, many of those are only minor offenses such as traffic or immigration charges, based on data obtained from FOIA requests as of July 11, 2026.


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