How did ice enforcement tactics change under Trump

They are the most obvious symbol of what US President Donald Trump will be “the biggest mass deportation in history.”

They are armed officers to enforce immigration and customs (ICE), often masked and unlimited, wearing clear clothes under protective jackets, and arrested people in cities and cities throughout the country.

Ice made nearly three times the number of arrests from May to July compared to the same period last year, according to the latest government numbers obtained by requesting freedom of information before Data deportation projectCalifornia Law College of Law Berkeley.

But these same numbers do not show a similar increase in the number of people with a criminal history captured by ice. Nearly 61,000 people are currently being held in the detention of immigration in the United States have no criminal record and they do not face criminal charge, according to data.

Kathleen Bush Joseph, a policy analyst and lawyer at the Immigration Policy Institute in Washington, DC, said the evidence is that the Trump administration claims that the immigration campaign is targeting “the worst of the worst.”

Bush Joseph says statistics reflect the tactics used by ice officers to increase their arrest numbers significantly under the direction of the White House.

She told CBC News: “They are going to the places where they believe that there will be many unauthorized immigrants and trying to arrest the largest possible number of people there,” where people who go to the American immigration courts are arrested for their asylum sessions, asylum offices and detention.

Support of the Supreme Court

Data shows that migration arrests across the country amounted to about 300 a day throughout 2024. After Trump’s inauguration in January, arrests have multiplied over nearly 600 a day, then rose again in May, and reached more than 1000 a day in June.

Critics have criticized the Trump administration because of the ICE tactics of the arrest of non -white men randomly, especially the Latinians, in survey operations where immigrants are not documented or working.

The US Supreme Court’s decision this week approved such tactics – at least at the present time.

in Resolution 6-3The conservative majority of the court closed the matter of the California judge who temporarily prevented the agents from preventing people only based on their race, language, job or location.

But the Supreme Court’s decision is not the last word in the case.

The courts have not yet heard complete arguments on whether the tactics violate the protection of the US constitution against unreasonable detention. A session is scheduled for September 24 in a local court in California, and the case is widely expected to end in the hands of the Supreme Court in the coming months.

“Ice uses non -constitutional methods to increase the number of immigrants he is arrested.

“The numbers will be much lower if you actually focus on the violent people you should focus on,” said Fox. “It is much easier to stand outside the home warehouse and wander people.”

Fox says he believes that most Americans want to target violent perpetrators for deportation, and not “a person here for a better life … in an attempt to gain sincere life.”

The Trump administration insists that its approach is working.

“As a result of this unprecedented effort, dozens of gang members and national security threats were moved from our streets,” the White House said. press release Tuesday.

During a briefing at the White House on Tuesday, when a reporter asked about the concerns of American citizens that they could be invaded in the immigration application, Trump’s journalist Secretary Caroline Levitte cleaned the question.

“They should not be worried because this administration focuses on detention and deportation of illegal foreign criminals who broke the laws of immigration in our nation,” she said.

“When Ice goes out to conduct a targeted operation to deport illegal criminals from our society, they do this with intelligence … in most cases with support of local law enforcement who know exactly where these illegal foreign criminals, drug dealers and drug dealers hide in sight.”

While the White House loves Highlight the examples From the violent criminals picked up by the ice Tick In the illegal crossings of the border with Mexico, you reach Report By deporting a million migrants per year, it seems impossible without chasing people who do not have a criminal history.

According to Ice’s private numbers, they were announced in a A message to a member of Congress Last September, the agency was tracking about 425,000 immigrants with criminal convictions that were not at detention and 222,000 others with suspended criminal charges. (Nearly 20 percent of the common total was convicted or accused of traffic crimes.)

Even if each of these immigrants with condemnation or charges is deported and deported within a year, this leaves the administration about 350,000 of the target.

“With the increase in the enforcement of migration enforcement, the Immigration Research Initiative, which is a non -profit, non -profit, non -profit institution, with funding from the Neo Found Foundation analysis From data from the first six months after Trump’s opening.

Another non -profit party organization found that the administration has increased the volume of arrests related to immigration in a “random and unable” manner.

The American Immigration Council said, “The Trump administration’s approach to enforcing implementation has been targeted simultaneously for the population for a long time, those who have no criminal records, unconventional families, migrant children, unconformed workers, and a random people.” In a report Posted in late July.