How has the number of immigration arrests changed in the first year of Trump’s presidency?

During the year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the immigration authorities arrested more illegal immigrants in New York and throughout the country than in the year before his election.

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This is evidenced by data from the US Immigration and Customs Control (ICE), writes Observer.

Journalists conducted a comparative analysis of data for the period from February to September 2017 of the year with data for the same period of 2016 of the year. It turned out that immigration arrests in 2017 had increased dramatically throughout the country, including in New York. One of the reasons for the growth was the executive order of the President No. XXUMX, which largely abandoned any priorities in the field of immigration arrests, allowing them to detain all illegal immigrants, even those who did not commit crimes.

In 2017, the total number of ICE arrests in New York increased by more than 65% compared to 2016. At the same time, the number of arrests of persons who have no criminal history increased by 225%.

At the national level, the number of arrests of illegal immigrants without a criminal history increased by 181%, and the total number of immigration arrests across the United States in 2017 increased by 43% compared to 2016 a year.

In addition, in 2017, the number of deportations of illegal immigrants detained in New York increased by 109%, the number of expulsions of state illegal immigrants who had no criminal history increased by 155% compared to the same period of 2016.

In total, in the country from 2016 to 2017, the increase in the number of deportations of illegal immigrants without a criminal past grew by 174%, the overall increase in the number of all deportations was 25%.

The number of detained unaccompanied minors and their exposure to the deportation process in 2017 increased in New York by 554% compared to 2016 in the year. This trend is increasing in 2018, during the first quarter of which the total number of underage illegal migrants detained and subject to deportation more than doubled over the entire 2017 fiscal year.

This led to an increase in the number of initiated immigration lawsuits, which increased in 2017 by 53% compared to 2016. Which leads to the impossibility of the courts in time to consider all these cases.

The nationwide backlog in immigration cases as of March 2018 is more than 692 000 lawsuits. In New York, the backlog is over 90 000 cases.

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