On this edition of Your Call, we continue our series, The Authoritarian Playbook, by discussing the Trump administration's mass deportations, violent ICE raids, family separation policies, and due process violations.
The Department of Homeland Security says two million undocumented people have been deported or have self-deported since January 20. Over 59,000 people are in ICE detention in the US.
Non-public data from ICE indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind, according to the Cato Institute . Sixty-five percent of people taken by ICE had no convictions and 93 percent had no violent convictions.
We'll also discuss ICE expanding its surveillance capabilities, recent legal decisions, and Trump’s threats to send ICE to San