Exclusive: U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons | Reuters

Exclusive: U.S. sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons | Reuters: U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally.