Mississippi and Texas detention facilities are holding the most illegal immigrants of the tens of thousands who have been arrested across the country, newly released federal data shows.

So far in fiscal year 2025, the Adams County Detention Center in Natchez, Mississippi, has held the largest number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, averaging 2,154 per day, according to data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

In Texas, the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall came in second with an average of 1,680 detainees per day followed by the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, which averaged 1,531 per day.

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