ICE expands detention in Florida, but withholds detainee data

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Florida is expanding its immigration detention capacity with federal assistance at a state-run facility.

But detainees at state-run facilities like "Deportation Depot" often do not appear in the federal ICE online locator system.

The state of Florida does not have its own public system for tracking these immigration detainees.

Florida is getting help from the feds to expand its capabilities at , dubbed " ."

It is unclear, however, how involved the federal government is in the management of the new facility at a shuttered state prison in Sanderson , roughly 40 miles west of Jacksonville.

While the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "working with the state of Florida," according to an ICE spokesperson, inmates at the facility cannot be found on the U.S. Immig