The Biden administration directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday to stop holding immigrants at an Alabama county jail and limit its use of three other detention facilities.
ICE to stop using two detention sites in Georgia and Massachusetts where detainees had reported mistreatment.
Representatives for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security , its umbrella agency, did not respond to requests for comment on Friday's announcement, which was As of earlier this month, ICE was holding just over 20,000 immigrants in its detention system, which consists mainly of county jails and for-profit prisons,The agency detains adult immigrants facing deportation, including migrants who recently crossed a U.S.
The policies effectively exempt undocumented immigrants who have lived and worked in the U.S. before November 2020 from arrest and deportation as long as they don't commit serious crimes.
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