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NEW: @bloomberg.com analysis of +13 years of ICE detentions shows immigrants transferred to the South and SW from interior US at unprecedented rates. Reducing the odds of winning their cases. w/ @elenamejia.bsky.social @racheladhe.bsky.social @pollymosendz.bsky.social bloom.bg/43am95w

Getting transferred to the South and SW reduce detained immigrants' chances at staying in the country. 70% of people detained in Louisiana and New Mexico end up deported, which is double that of the Northeast and the Nat'l Avg, which is about 50%. bloom.bg/43am95w

In prior years few immigrants detained by ICE in the Northeast were sent to the South & SW. Virtually nobody sent to New Mexico, and less than 1% of ppl sent to Texas or Arizona. In Trump's first month, 12% of ppl detained in the NE were sent to Texas, 4% to NM and 3% to AZ. bloom.bg/43am95w

When immigrants are transferred across state lines they often need to get new legal counsel. ICE detention facilities in the South and SW are remote, with immigration lawyers few and far between. The avg distance to the closest immigration lawyer in Louisiana is over 100 miles. bloom.bg/43am95w