Chloe Simon

Multiple reports show a discrepancy between the administration’s own data and its claim that it is targeting violent criminals in ICE and Customs and Border Protection actions. According to an Axios report, ICE arrests of people with no criminal charges or convictions surged in June after the administration changed its arrest quota from 1,000 to 3,000 people per day.

After President Donald Trump announced on August 11 that he is deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and suggested he would do it in other major U.S. cities too, many in right-wing media celebrated the announcement, claiming D.C. should be a “test case” and arguing that “we need full military occupation” of other “problematic cities” like New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration has held thousands of undocumented immigrants — including many without a criminal record — in a network of domestic and international detention centers. Two of these, El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) and the newly opened “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, have already been criticized for appalling conditions and human rights abuses.