Earlier this spring, Dalton residents Jose Arias-Tovar and his teenage daughter, Ximena, were both housed in Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center, one of the largest immigration jails in the country.

Being reunited with his wife and children wasn’t the only reason Arias-Tovar said he was happy to be released on bond last month. There was also relief at getting out of what he described as a facility so overcrowded that he was forced to sleep on a bare concrete floor about half the time during his four-week detention.

As ICE has stepped up arrests since the start of Donald Trump’s second administration, including of immigration violators who do not have other criminal charges or convictions, space inside the agency’s detention facilities is running scarce. That appears to be the case at Stew

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