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The number of people held by ICE at any one time has ballooned.
That's 70% higher than when President Trump took office.
But deaths have gone up more, to about 30 for the year, compared to 11 in 2024.
At Syracuse University, Austin Coker studies the immigration enforcement system, and he's troubled by some clusters of deaths.
ICE says in-custody deaths this year, quote, average less than 1%.
This is the lowest in history, unquote.
But it does not explain how that figure was calculated.
The number of people held by ICE at any one time has ballooned.
That's 70% higher than when President Trump took office.
But deaths have gone up more, to about 30 for the year, compared to 11 in 2024.
At Syracuse University, Austin Coker studies the immigration enforcement system, and he's troubled by some clusters of deaths.
ICE says in-custody deaths this year, quote, average less than 1 percent.
This is the lowest in history, unquote.
But it does not explain how that figure was calculated.
Abrego Garcia had been ordered to check in at the ICE field office in Baltimore, and his lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told a crowd of supporters that there was concern he wouldn't come back out.
A federal judge ordered ICE not to detain him while a legal motion is pending.