ICE is arresting way more immigrants without criminal records -- especially in Florida

[teach1st]

In Florida, arrests of undocumented immigrants without prior convictions are seven times higher than they were under Obama, the largest surge in the country.

Despite Trump’s claims, ICE is arresting way more immigrants without criminal records — especially in Florida
Tampa Bay Times, 7/26/2018

President Donald Trump says he has ramped up immigration enforcement to target bad guys — “people that are killing people and that are causing crime.”

“(It’s) much easier just to go to general population — that’s easy,” Trump said earlier this year. “But I don’t do it the easy way. We’re getting tremendous numbers of criminals.”

But two years after his administration launched a nationwide dragnet, federal data shows detentions of noncriminals surged as tens of thousands of immigrants without any convictions were arrested.

Nowhere was this enforcement shift more pronounced than in Florida, according to a Tampa Bay Times analysis of federal data. Arrests here of undocumented immigrants with no criminal records were seven times the total during the previous administration — the largest increase in the country and twice the national average.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. warehousing of people in concentration camps for profit.......slavery

That amoral pig has no real interest in removing these people. If he did he would be spending money on more judges and attys and staff to process their cases and deport them.

[COLGATE4]

2. Typical Trump methodology: pick the low-hanging fruit

and then declare 'victory'. His base will eat it up.

[defacto7]

3. Florida will collapse without their immigrant workforce.