Tomas Castro Lopez, left, plays chess with a fellow El Salvadoran detainee in the transfer area for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency detainees at the Santa Ana Jail. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
Delitos migratorios coparon un 52 % de los procesos de la justicia federal estadounidense durante el año fiscal 2016.
(Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
Hoa Ho, right, a Vietnamese detainee, gives another immigrant a haircut. Federal contracts to house U.S. Marshals prisoners and immigration detainees cover nearly the entire cost of the jail, an administrator says. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
Correctional Supervisor Ed Martinez of the Santa Ana Police Department watches over immigrant detainees at the Santa Ana Jail. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
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Immigration detainees spend time outside their cells. Washington paid nearly $55.2 million to house detainees at 13 local jails in California in fiscal year 2008, up from $52.6 million the previous year. The U.S. is on track to spend $57 million this year. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
A detainee peers through a window. Santa Ana collected $4.8 million from the immigration agency in 2008. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
