ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase

[Uncle Joe]

A new report finds the number of people in ICE detention has nearly doubled in Trump's first year back in office, driven by indiscriminate arrest policies that have locked up more and more people without criminal records, "an unprecedented situation for immigration detention." We break down the numbers with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, which published the report. Reichlin-Melnick explains that ICE's annual budget has approximately quintupled, even as 2025 marked the agency's deadliest year so far. Four more people have already died in detention in just the first two weeks of 2026. "Crucially, all of this has been slower than they wanted," he adds. "Their hope was to have over 100,000 people in detention by today; they've hit 70,000."

[randr]

1. These people are not illegal immigrants

They are political captives intended to intimidate the rest of us.
The man is a monster and he has cosplayer idiots doing his bidding.

[Sancho]

2. 70,000 in detention out of 14,000,000?

About 300,000 children born to the undocumented each year in the US.

About 500,000 new undocumented enter each year.

ICE is losing this war...