Great news! During the month of February, the number of immigrants detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jails decreased, while the release of detained foreigners increased, thanks to the Alternatives to Detention Program, which allows low-risk undocumented immigrants to await the resolution of their cases in Immigration Court while free.
According to a report from the Transactional Records Access and Information Center, the number of people detained by ICE decreased during the last four weeks, resulting in 938 captures and adding to the 20,000 detained as of February 13.
Regarding the number of people enrolled in the Alternatives to Detention Program, researchers noted an increase of more than 18,000 people, placing them in 182,000 jails as of February 12, with the largest number of detainees confined in detention centers located in the state of Texas, on the border with Mexico.
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