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https://www.kut.org/apple-news/2025-10-27/trump-ice-detainer-jail-arrest-texas-travis-austin-immigration

ICE is removing more people from Austin’s jails. Sometimes coming twice a day.
The Texas Newsroom | By Mose Buchele
Published October 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM CDT

ICE agents are seizing more people from jails in the Austin area, county officials tell The Texas Newsroom, sometimes visiting the facilities multiple times per day as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationwide.

“For inmates in our care and custody, they usually wait 24 hours or less because we get pickups from [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] almost every day,” Kristen Dark, public information officer of the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, said in an interview this month.

She added: “Sometimes they do pick up from us twice a day.”

Aggressive immigration sweeps and arrests have become a hallmark of Trump-era immigration policy. Cities in blue states like California and Illinois have seen the most public crackdowns, including the deployment of federal troops. But, in Texas, where local leaders are compelled to hand people arrested on other charges over to ICE directly from county jails, many immigration arrests remain hidden from public view.

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