For the first time in 20 years, the Dallas County jail has nowhere to put detainees.

Dallas County Criminal Justice Department Director Charlene Randolph announced during a Tuesday meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court that the jail exceeded capacity over Labor Day weekend. Randolph emphasized that the jail is in “crisis” mode and that county leaders need to “find ways to get [detainees] out."

Increasingly, though, the county is being asked to keep a specific population of inmates detained.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and published by the San Antonio Express-News shows that ICE agents are relying on local jails to hold onto undocumented immigrants until they can be picked up by immigration officials at a signific

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