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February 9, 2018

Immigration Arrests Up 30 Percent in 2017, Still Far Below Peak Obama Levels
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President Trump's anti-immigrant policies led to a 30 percent jump in
the number of arrests carried out by ICE last year, according to a new
review of ICE data by the Pew Research Center. Even so, 2017 saw far
fewer immigration arrests than many of the years that President Obama
was in office-including 2009, when ICE arrested nearly 300,000 people,
more than double last year's total.


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