Under Trump, ICE Is Far More Likely to Arrest People With No Criminal Record, Data Shows | KQED

"The scale of arrests that is documented in these data does rise and fall with the obvious expansion across cities that is taking place,"

"" remove the worst of the worst," calling the immigrants it is focused on detaining "dangerous criminal illegal aliens.""

"We think there's some pretty good evidence that these no-release policies are causing people who might have won their cases instead to give up and accept deportation,"

Immigration arrests and deportations quadrupled in the first nine months of the Trump administration as thousands of federal agents and officers were deployed into cities. The Deportation Data Project compiled these figures via public records requests, although the data do not include the latest Minneapolis–St. Paul surge. Arrest increases were driven largely by street arrests and concentrated city operations in places such as Los Angeles and Minneapolis, where federal officers spurred massive protests and killed two citizens. The Department of Homeland Security framed escalations as efforts to "remove the worst of the worst," yet detainee criminal-record data often contradicts that framing. No-release policies coincided with a 21-fold increase in voluntary departures, suggesting many migrants may accept deportation rather than continue legal proceedings.

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