Any Hombre Will Do

ICE arrests have been sold as a way to get “bad hombres” off the streets. But “a surge in immigration arrests this summer has swept up thousands of people who had not previously been the focus of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. They included people married to U.S. citizens, people who had entered legally and were pursuing an asylum claim, and others with a temporary legal status that the administration pushed to revoke … The share with a past violent criminal conviction fell to less than 4 percent.” ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted.

+ “An immigration officer facing state charges in connection with a shooting in Minneapolis was released from jail on Thursday after Republican officials in Texas prevailed in an extradition battle with their Democratic counterparts in Minnesota. “