Since Mayor Craig Greenberg reinstated a policy this summer allowing Louisville Metro Corrections to hold people for up to 48 hours for federal immigration authorities to detain them, immigration officials have already issued more than 40 percent of all holds made over the entirety of last year.

Between Aug. 1 and Oct. 1, these holds, known as detainers, were issued against 81 people, according to jail officials. Most were listed as Hispanic in booking records. By comparison, Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by the Deportation Data Project — a national group of academics and lawyers maintaining a clearinghouse of federal immigration data — show 188 detainers in all of 2024.

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