Arkansas county jail becomes major ICE pipeline as arrests surge under Trump crackdown

An Arkansas county jail has become one of America’s busiest hubs for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with hundreds of people arrested this year.More than 450 people have been detained from Jan. 1 through Oct. 15 at the Benton County Jail, according to ICE arrest data from the University of California Berkeley Deportation Data Project reviewed by The Associated Press, a rate of roughly 1.5 arrests per day in a county with just over 300,000 people.The surge reflects the rapid expa