At least 12 people have reportedly died at the United States immigration detention centers since January when President Donald Trump began his second tenure.

Various news outlets, including Britain’s The Independent newspaper, reported the fatalities on Monday, citing two suicides among them.

The latest incidents featured the deaths of a Canadian citizen and a Cuban one.

They said the deaths took place at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention facilities as the ICE has been tasked with rounding up around 3,000 migrants throughout the country towards expelling millions of them each year.

The centers are, therefore, facing widespread overcrowding that, observers say, could contribute to their failing to address the detainees’ needs.

“More than 56,397 migrants were in immigration detention as of mid-June, or about 140 percent of the agency’s ostensible capacity to hold them,” the paper wrote.

“These are the worst conditions I have seen in my 20-year career,” Paul Chavez, litigation and advocacy director at Americans for Immigrant Justice in Florida, recently told The New York Times. “Conditions were never great, but this is horrendous.”

The death rate has put the administration on track to hit the highest number of such fatalities in decades.

Analysts say as many as 24 migrants could die at the ICE’s facilities by the end of the year.

This would put Trump's administration just a little short of hitting the 28-strong fatality record in ICE detention that was registered during George W. Bush's era.

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