For years, President Donald Trump has framed immigrants in the United States as dangerous threats to American citizens, for which the only solution is prison, deportation, or some combination thereof. But while Trump has spent the bulk of his second term making good on his campaign promise of mass immigrant arrests and expulsions, analysis of the data from such operations may seriously challenge the administration’s anti-migrant narrative.

Skyrocketing arrests, but few criminal records

Although immigration enforcement actions have netted the Trump administration “thousands of arrests,” the Department of Homeland Security’s operations have been “ less effective ” at detaining migrants with criminal records than “routine operations elsewhere,” said The New York Times . In “high-profile

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