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Trump’s mass deportation campaign may lay waste to the Bill of Rights
New data shows the scope of ICE’s suspicion-free profiling of Latinos is even worse than we thought.


In a new analysis of DHS immigration arrest data for the Cato Institute, I document the shocking number of Latin American immigrants being arrested on the streets with no criminal convictions, no criminal charges and no deportation orders. Nothing that would have put them on the radar of DHS for removal. No reason to seek them out specifically.


But in June alone, the figure was 7,000 — 90% were Latin American immigrants. There was a jump in these arrests immediately in January, but the recent shift has taken the operation to a whole new level. In June, one in five DHS immigration arrests targeted a Latino on the streets who had no criminal past nor a removal order against them.

Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an email, “This data is being cherry picked by the Deportation Data Project to peddle a false narrative,” adding: “Any claims that individuals have been ‘targeted’ by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically FALSE. What makes someone a target of ICE is that they are in our country illegally — not their skin color. DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence.”

However, we already know that agents are stopping people before they know they’re in the country illegally.

DHS describes these interactions as “consensual.” But they are anything but. As a California district court put it, “When individuals have tried to avoid an encounter with agents and officers, they have been followed and pushed to the ground, sometimes even beaten, and then taken away.”