The Trump administration has said the crackdown targets criminals, but there has been concern that law-abiding migrants with varying forms of legal immigration status could also be rounded up, otherwise known as “collateral arrests.”
Asked about collateral arrests, Sam Olson, the enforcement and removal operations director in the Chicago field office, said they were possible. …
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However, just 613 of the 1,179 people arrested Sunday — nearly 52% — were considered “criminal arrests,” a senior Trump administration official said. The rest appear to be nonviolent offenders or people who have not committed any criminal offense.
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