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Hundreds of county jails detained immigrants for ICE

  • Written by Emily Ryo, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Southern California
Hundreds of county jails detained immigrants for ICETheo Lacy Facility in Orange, California. Emily Ryo, CC BY-SA

Hundreds of county jails in the U.S. are paid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants facing removal proceedings.

On a typical day in 2017, for instance, Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California, operated by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, held...

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