Trump administration launches new immigration crackdowns in New Orleans and Minneapolis. Here are all the cities it has
Source: Yahoo News
targeted so far.
Continuing its campaign of high profile immigration crackdowns in major cities nationwide, the Trump administration on Wednesday launched extensive new operations in New Orleans and Minneapolis aimed at arresting and deporting people without legal status.
The administration has claimed that it is going after dangerous criminals: the “worst of the worst.” When announcing the New Orleans operation, for instance, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) listed 10 violent offenders it said had been released from local jails because of the city’s “sanctuary” policies.
But government data collected during the administration’s other recent and ongoing raids — in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, N.C., and elsewhere — shows that the vast majority of people swept up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have no criminal record.
Instead, as agents work to meet the administration’s new quota of 3,000 ICE arrests per day, up from 1,000 previously, they are increasingly rounding up noncriminals in public places, as top White House aide Stephen Miller — the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda — instructed them to do back in May, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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