Democrats accuse ICE of creating 'disappearances' on US soil

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Before the Trump administration, ICE added people to its locator system within eight hours of their arrival to an ICE facility.
55% : As her family scrambled, she was shackled and quickly transferred to an ICE facility in Texas.
54% : The ICE detention system is made up of a network of large and small facilities, jails, military bases and federal prisons, many of which are privately owned and operated.
51% : The lawmakers, led by Senators Elizabeth Warren, are urging that the DHS inspector general's office open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "online detainee locator system" (ODLS), which has been used for years by family members, attorneys and journalists to track people in the federal immigration detention system.
51% : "The ICE locator system that is supposed to tell the outside world where a detainee is located did not reflect that change [to Texas]", the court records read.
46% : ICE "denied Any's repeated requests to make additional phone calls".
46% : Before anyone heard from Lopez Belloza again, ICE quickly deported her to Honduras, flying her out of Texas.
46% : After ICE arrests someone, they will detain the person in "holding facilities", which are typically made up of small, concrete rooms designed for temporary detention.
44% : As far as her family and attorneys knew, Lopez Belloza was still in ICE custody in Boston, so her attorneys filed a petition in a Massachusetts court to try to stop her deportation.
43% : There are currently more than 70,000 people detained by ICE.
41% : But no one, including her family and new attorneys, knew of her transfer out of Massachusetts, since ICE officials did not make the change to the agency's ODLS, court records say.
38% : " DHS, ICE and the DHS inspector general's office did not respond to a request for comment by time of publication.
31% : ICE created the ODLS in 2010 so family members and attorneys could quickly and accurately track people detained by ICE in its detention network.
29% : Lawmakers say in their letter that ICE is not quickly updating holding facility detentions in the ODLS and cite reporting by the Guardian from last fall, which revealed that ICE had been detaining people inside the secretive holding rooms for days or even weeks, in violation of its own federal policy.
21% : Advocates say her case undercuts the Trump administration's repeated claims that ICE is only targeting "criminals" and "the worst of the worst". Court records reviewed by the Guardian suggest Lopez Belloza's deportation could have been prevented had the ODLS been updated properly.
20% : In the past year, a series of high-profile ICE arrests have led to criticism of the Trump administration's enforcement tactics, including the case of Any Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old college freshman from Massachusetts.

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