Numbers of undocumented people being detained and deported in the United States have risen sharply since President Donald Trump signed new executive orders on immigration enforcement, and the results are evident in Grand Forks, where the number of immigration detainees this year has already surpassed the annual total from 2016.

The Grand Forks County Correctional Center has logged 1,643 bed days for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detainees in 2017, according to jail administrator Bret Burkholder. Bed days are the way jails count the number of incarcerated individuals in the facility at any given time. That number exceeds the annual totals for 2013, 2015 and 2016, and is fast approaching the total for 2014, he said.

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"We've met or exceeded three of the last four years already," Burkholder said. "And I don't see anything changing in that anytime soon."

Last week, ICE announced deportation officers arrested 41,318 people on civil immigration charges between Trump's executive order signature on Jan. 22 and April 29, a 37.6 percent increase from the same period in 2016.

"These statistics reflect President Trump's commitment to enforce our immigration laws fairly and across the board," said ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan in a press release. "ICE agents and officers have been given clear direction to focus on threats to public safety and national security, which has resulted in a substantial increase in the arrest of convicted criminal aliens. However, when we encounter others who are in the country unlawfully, we will execute our sworn duty and enforce the law."

Grand Forks is an ICE contracting jail, one that holds a large number of immigration detainees before they are brought the Twin Cities to be tried in immigration court.

The relationship between ICE and the county is a financial boon for Grand Forks. In recent years, the jail has earned $1.6 to $2 million housing inmates from federal agencies and neighboring counties, Burkholder said. The correctional center had $6 million in expenses and $2.39 million in revenue in 2016, according to Grand Forks County Auditor Debbie Nelson. Federal inmate housing represented 81 percent of the jail's revenue last year.

The current numbers are still below the pace of 2008, when ICE inmates logged 11,257 bed days in Grand Forks.

Burkholder previously told the Herald ICE numbers fell continuously throughout the Barack Obama administration and have been on the rise under Trump.