MSNBC - At a Los Angeles Home Depot this week, masked men jumped from an unmarked truck and immediately began chasing people without so much as a word with their targets. They made 16 arrests. It’s an example of the fastest-growing method for the Department of Homeland Security to juice its mass deportation machine: illegal profiling.
In a new analysis of DHS immigration arrest data for the Cato Institute, I document the shocking number of Latin American immigrants being arrested on the streets with no criminal convictions, no criminal charges and no deportation orders. Nothing that would have put them on the radar of DHS for removal. No reason to seek them out specifically.
In June, one in five DHS immigration arrests targeted a Latino on the streets who had no criminal past nor a removal order against them. The data was obtained from ICE via a Freedom of Information Act request by the Deportation Data Project — a nonpartisan project headed by a law professor at Berkeley. It gives detailed information on each person arrested by DHS as of June 26. It shows DHS took down 15,000 people on the streets without any criminal history or removal orders since Inauguration Day.\
But in June alone, the figure was 7,000 — 90% were Latin American immigrants. There was a jump in these arrests immediately in January, but the recent shift has taken the operation to a whole new level. In June, one in five DHS immigration arrests targeted a Latino on the streets who had no criminal past nor a removal order against them.
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