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Trump’s ICE arrests non-criminals despite crime-focused message
- On Thursday, Senator Alex Padilla from California was forcibly removed, shoved, and handcuffed while asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about immigration arrests at a press conference.
- The removal followed growing ICE immigration arrests nationwide, driven by a Trump administration agenda demanding up to 3,000 migrant arrests per day, three times previous levels.
- Unpublished ICE data show 177,000 arrests from October 2024 to May 2025, but only about one-third had criminal convictions, indicating many non-criminals were detained during raids.
- Padilla expressed concern about the treatment of immigrant workers crucial to agriculture, including those employed in farming, cooking, and day labor, emphasizing the negative effects of current immigration enforcement practices.
- This enforcement shift has sparked protests, prompted Republican lawmakers to request a criminal-focused approach, and raised questions about resource use and effects on immigrant communities.
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As Trump wants more ICE arrests, immigration attorneys say legal reality is overwhelming, terrifying
As the White House tells ICE arrests they want more arrests, Utah immigration attorneys say the new legal reality has become overwhelming and terrifying.
U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans, other Republicans question ICE targeting 'non-criminal' immigrant workers
U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans of Colorado’s 8th Congressional District and other Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to the Trump administration, expressing concern that federal agents are targeting farm and hotel industry workers with "clean records."
ICE Arrests of Non-Criminal Migrants Surge 800% Under Trump
WASHINGTON – The number of people booked into immigration detention who have been charged only with immigration violations has jumped eight-fold since President Donald Trump took office, government data shows, undercutting his anti-crime message. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention statistics show the number of detainees arrested by ICE with no other criminal charges or convictions rose from about 860 in January to 7,800 this mont…
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