To get a better sense of the problem, the Cato Institute requested data at the local level from Travis County, Tex. Here’s what the county-level data show: From September 2005 to Aug. 25, 2017, ICE issued 24,269 detainers for people in Travis County custody. If applied nationally, it would mean that ICE targeted at least 20,000 U.S. citizens. These figures likely underestimate the true rate of wrongful detention because ICE also arrests U.S. citizens and brings them into custody. One estimate found that about 1.6 percent of people booked into ICE custody were also U.S. citizens.

Source: Washington Post August 29, 2018 19:52 UTC