When somebody is booked into jail and if they have a detainer on them, ICE can ask the jail to serve a warrant on them and hold them for an extra 48 hours before ICE comes to take them into custody.

Funding for increased detention is not included in the Laken Riley Act. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that to enforce the law, ICE would need an additional 110,000 detention beds, 10,000 more enforcement and removal operations personnel, and 7,000 new government attorneys to handle immigration proceedings.

Ahead of the anticipated immigration enforcement, Florida sheriffs are conducting an inventory of available beds.

President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to track down unaccompanied immigrant children and demand their appearance in court or deportation. Unaccompanied minors are children who enter the U.

There are more than 600,000 migrant children who have crossed the southern border without a legal guardian or parent since 2019, according to government data.

The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president's mass deportation effort,