Since President Trump took office, immigration arrests are up 42 percent, and arrests of undocumented immigrants who don’t have criminal records are up 145 percent compared to last year. The PBS NewsHour’s P.J. Tobia takes us along as ICE officers use the greater flexibility granted them under the Trump administration to crack down on immigrant communities, and how that’s affecting families.
Since President Trump took office, immigration arrests are up 42 percent. ICE estimates, nationwide, they make 400 arrests a day. ICE has arrested 37,000 undocumented immigrants without criminal records. That’s a 145 percent increase over fiscal year 2016.