Why this rural town wants an ICE facility

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  NPR.

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  This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  Yesterday on the show,

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  we talked about the hiring boom in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

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  The Department of Homeland Security says more than 12,000 new agents have joined the federal agency

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  since last year.

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  The reason?

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  To carry out President Trump's aggressive crackdown on illegal migration.

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  There are about 71,000 people in detention right now, which is a record high.

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  So at this point, you might be asking yourself,

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  where are these increasing numbers of people being held?

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  To help me explain all of this, I'm joined by MPR Sergio Martinez Beltran.

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  He covers immigration.

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  Welcome to The Indicator, Sergio.

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  Hey, Waylin.

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  Thanks so much for the invite.

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  And you know,

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  the short answer to that question you posed is that the administration is building and expanding huge detention centers across the country,

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  many in small, economically depressed towns.

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