Since 2017, migrants have paid $2 billion to escape US detention centers

The deposits migrants paid to escape detention centers and out of the sight of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) are adding up $2 billion since 2017, that is, an average of 6 thousand dollars per person.

The Ggure is a calculation from a Syracuse University (NY) non-governmental organization that collects data for use in research and will publish a report this Thursday.

Bail is levied on migrants to free up space in detention centers and ensure that, upon release, they can attend court hearings and other proceedings to call “migrants,” as ICE is widely known.

ICE placed bail on a quarter of a million migrants

In total, “migra” brought in a quarter of a million migrants on bail, and their number increased sharply in 2019: that year the money collected on bail reached its peak Half a million dollars.

The Covid-19 pandemic has reduced the number of migrants detained, as well as the number released on bail.

However, in February 2022, the latter began to increase until August 2022; They later declined during 2023, despite an increase in the number of arrests.

ICE O ces Receiving the Most Money from Bail Bonds

The “immigration” o#ces that collected the most deposits over those seven years were the Eloy (Arizona) o#ces with 185 million collected, followed by Adelanto (California) with 155 million; Oakdale (Louisiana), Miami (Florida) and Houston (Texas).

The average individual bail amount is especially high in Adelanto, California, where it reaches $15,000 per migrant.

AMLO asks US not to use Mexico as ‘piñata’ after immigration plan fails

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this Thursday asked American politicians to stop using Mexico as a “piñata” after the failure of an immigration plan in the US Senate that would have closed the border and sent more migrants into Mexico.

“Yesterday there was a vote in the US Congress and President (Joe) Biden’s proposal on immigration was rejected because everything is already election politics and they want to exploit, which we are not going to allow, the issue of immigration. like other issues to achieve success in the electoral Geld,” he said.

“Mexico is not anyone’s piñata, so we will be careful,” the Mexican president concluded at a morning conference.

López Obrador cited Wednesday’s failure of a border security bill in the U.S. Senate, where it fell short of the 60 votes needed to start debate, with 50 votes against and 49 in favor. (According to EFE)