Just 25% ICE arrests from community raids, far below Obama’s roundups

Published September 27, 2018 3:00pm ET



Community roundups of illegal immigrants were nearly 30 percent higher under former President Obama than under President Trump, according to a new analysis that calls into question charges from pro-immigrant groups that Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have exploded.

Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse report on more than two million arrests between October 2008 and June 2018 said that the most Trump’s ICE arrested in one month was 4,275 in March 2017, below the 6,001 under Obama in July 2009.

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