Pew Research Center: How border apprehensions, ICE arrests and deportations have changed under Trump

The Pew Research Center released a new analysis of federal data on border apprehensions, interior arrests and deportations to examine how immigration policies have changed under the Trump administration.

John Gramlich writes, “The increase in [border] apprehensions has come as a growing number of migrants seek asylum.”

Interior arrests made by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) increased in 2017 and 2018, but “decreased in fiscal 2019 and remain far lower than during President Barack Obama’s first term in office.” And in fiscal year 2018, “[U.S. Customs and Border Protection] and ICE together carried out 337,287 removals of unauthorized immigrants, a 17% increase from the previous year.” But even this number remains below what we saw during the Obama administration, when more than 400,000 deportations were carried out each year between 2012 and 2014.

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