P.J. Tobia:

Anyone in ICE custody will eventually find themselves in an immigration detention center, like this one outside of Farmville, Virginia. Every day, ICE holds between 30,000 and 40,000 immigrants in custody. Next year, the White House is aiming to increase that number by 20 percent.

Once they arrive at the detention center, they're separated based on factors like immigration and criminal history. Detainees can meet with a deportation officer to answer questions. Often, they will act as translators for one another.

But the one question they won't get answered is when they might be deported. The agency says that information is a security risk.

Macario Diaz Morales was held in the Farmville detention center for a month-and-a-half. He was released on bond in early November. We met his wife, Areli Vega Reyna, a few days later at their lawyers' office, the Legal Aid Justice Center.

Immigration raids in their community made the family too scared to speak to NewsHour in their neighborhood. Our cameras might draw unwanted attention. Areli says she was getting in her car to leave for work one morning when an ICE agent approached her in the driveway, asking for her husband.