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Ice on Immigration: Explaining detention and deportationQuestion: What is immigration detention and deportation?Answer: Immigration detention is the lock-up of non-U.S. citizens in a federal immigration detention center, jail or a private corporate-owned and run prison where they remain until a determination is made whether or not these non-citizens should be removed from the U.S. The U.S. government detains more than 230,000 immigrants, including children, each year. Deportation, or removal, which is the official name, is the forced return (at U.S. government expense) and exile to one's country of origin. Since 1996, the U.S. has removed more than 1.5 million people. Anyone who is not a U.S. citizen can be removed from the country. Those most at risk for deportation are undocumented immigrants and those with certain criminal convictions.
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