Mar 6, 2025 - News
Texas, Louisiana home to most immigration detainees
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Texas and Louisiana house the most detainees among the tens of thousands who've been rounded up across the nation during the ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration, according to newly released federal data.
The big picture: The U.S. government's immigration centers are already near capacity, but the Trump White House is pushing for dramatically more arrests.
By the numbers: The Adams County Detention Center in Natchez, Miss., holds the single-most detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), averaging 2,154 a day, according to the data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and reviewed by Axios.
- But Louisiana and Texas collectively house the most, with more than 12,000 in Texas and nearly 7,000 across Louisiana's facilities.