Report author David Hausman, co-director of the Deportation Data Project and assistant professor of law at UC Berkeley, says while the facts about ICE arrests are public, but that’s not the whole story.
A new report from the Deportation Data Project confirms that Black immigrants are targeted by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during “street arrests,” adding to the narrative that the safety of “everyday life” is under attack, The Grio reports.
The “One Year of Immigration Enforcement” report highlights a massive increase in “street arrests” for Black undocumented immigrants, an aggressive tactic where federal agents arrest individuals in their own neighborhoods, courthouses, or during routine check-ins at ICE field offices. For the disenfranchised demographic, the report marks a new era of danger at the hands of law enforcement for a group that already faces systemic disparities.
“One big factor is that detention causes people to give up on their cases.”
“DHS nor ICE have verified the accuracy, methodology, or the analysis of the project and its results. The bottom line is that the Deportation Data Project is not accurate.”
But the Deportation Data Project stands by the notion that “these are ICE’s own records of who is arrested, detained, and deported” regarding the data amid the increase of arrests during the first nine months of the Trump administration, and not just in Democratic-led cities such as Minneapolis. Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project and professor of political science at UCLA, says “even at the peak of the Minneapolis surge,” street arrests accounted for only 15%. “The expansion is truly national,” Blair said.
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Source: Black Enterprise
