Trump's ICE detained "a record number of pregnant women, cancer patients, and disabled people..." [View all]
Trump’s ICE detained a record number of pregnant women, cancer patients, and disabled people during the first seven months of his second term, new government data reveals.
The figures—analyzed by PunchUp, the Daily Beast’s investigations Substack publication—are drawn from 505,000 ICE I-213 arrest forms released by The Guardian last Friday following litigation by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Trump, 79, had repeatedly promised his second-term immigration crackdown would target “the worst of the worst.” Instead, PunchUp‘s analysis shows agents hauled in 21 cancer patients, seven organ transplant recipients, at least 24 disabled people—including the blind, deaf, and paralyzed—and 130 pregnant women between January and July last year.
Last week, PunchUp revealed that the same dataset showed ICE doubled its daily arrest rate the second Trump took the oath of office. Now PunchUp can show how that surge in arrests led to vulnerable groups being targeted.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-ice-goons-targeted-pregnant-women-and-cancer-patients/
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