According to a February 2026 DHS letter obtained by Documented, more than half of approximately 200 undocumented immigrants held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn have no criminal record, with fewer than 24 percent having criminal convictions. The facility, which began holding ICE detainees in 2025 as part of a DHS-Bureau of Prisons agreement, has never undergone a required ICE compliance inspection despite housing detainees for extended periods. Congressman Dan Goldman toured the facility and met three detainees, none of whom had criminal convictions—two were asylum applicants from Georgia and one had fled Ukraine.