ICE Deportations Hit 10-Year High

According to a report issued Thursday, they deported more than 270,000 individuals to 192 countries in the last 12 months, the most in a decade. In its fiscal year that ended on September 30, ICE, the primary government agency in charge of forcibly removing individuals from the country, recorded 271,484 deportations, almost twice as many as it did during the same period the previous year (142,580). Over the last 12 months, ICE detained 37,700 people on average every day, a figure set by congressional funding. The state of Texas is providing rural land as a staging area because detention space could be a barrier to mass deportations.