{"id":133984,"date":"2026-01-16T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuevaonda.com\/immigration-record-more-than-70000-people-detained-by-federal-authorities\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:40:55","slug":"immigration-record-more-than-70000-people-detained-by-federal-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuevaonda.com\/en\/immigration-record-more-than-70000-people-detained-by-federal-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration record: More than 70,000 people detained by federal authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. immigration authorities are holding some 73,000 people in detention, the highest number in history, according to data leaked Friday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The figures reveal an 84% increase in the number of arrests compared to the same period last year, before President Donald Trump took office with a series of anti-immigrant policies focused on detaining and deporting as many individuals as possible.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Immigration record with more than 70,000 detainees<\/h2>\n<p>According to the data leaked to the portal, less than half (47%) of the detainees have a criminal record in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican administration has insisted in recent months that its plan is to increase detention capacity &#8211; by opening more <a href=\"https:\/\/nuevaonda.com\/en\/trump-administration-plans-to-build-five-new-mega-detention-centers-for-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facilities<\/a> or expanding existing ones &#8211; to an average of 100,000 people each day.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, with the passage of the budget dubbed by Trump as the &#8216;Big, Beautiful Bill,&#8217; the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) received a multi-year funding package of nearly $191 billion, the largest amount of funding this agency has received since it was founded in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) received a huge funding increase in 2025 through the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful One Bill Act&#8221; (OBBBA), totaling about $178 billion in a single supplemental package, the largest in history, focused heavily on border security, immigration enforcement (ICE, CBP), detention and new barriers, after years of significant budget increases for these areas.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions in migrant detention centers have been described as &#8220;inhumane&#8221; by human rights organizations, including the ACLU and Amnesty International, which have revealed physical and psychological abuse of detainees, as well as overcrowding.<\/p>\n<p>And 2025 was the deadliest year in at least two decades for people in ICE custody, with more than 30 people killed inside these facilities.<\/p>\n<p>In the first 10 days of 2026, at least four migrants have died in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities, all in facilities used by ICE, including a center at the Fort Bliss military base in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: Record migration<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>With information from EFE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. immigration authorities are holding some 73,000 people in detention, the highest number in history, according to data leaked Friday to CBS News. 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