ICE Detention Numbers (Shallow Thoughts)

ICE Detention Numbers

This image, from Indivisible, has been floating around social media. I saw it on a Mastodon post though curiously, it doesn't seem to be on their website anywhere.

But is it true? I wasn't going to share it until I knew that. So I investigated.

A few people on mastodon asked, and other people (not whoever posted the image for Indivisible) replied with two links: a Common Dreams article about ICE planning to buy/rent lots more warehouses for more detention centers, and an MSN article about the history of concentration camps. Neither article addresses the "first six years" claim at all. The MSN link says that Hitler had around 50,000 people held in his roughly 70 concentration camps in his first year (that turns out to be way off according to Wikipedia; I'll address that later).

The first question: how many people is ICE currently holding?

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