Immigration

Washington Post - More than 80 percent of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during the surge in federal law enforcement this year had no prior criminal record, newly released federal data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime.

President Donald Trump cast the “crime emergency” he declared on Aug. 11 as an effort to root out the worst criminal offenders in a city under siege.

“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals,” Trump announced as he deployed the National Guard, ordered hundreds of federal law enforcement officers to patrol city streets and prompted his administration to take over the city’s police department. 

The Hill - A federal judge has restricted warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., only permitting them when probable cause exists that someone in the country illegally is likely to escape. 

NBC News - The Trump administration have launched immigration enforcement operations in New Orleans and Minneapolis a day after President Donald Trump said he would be sending National Guard troops to Louisiana.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the New Orleans operation is "targeting criminal aliens roaming free thanks to sanctuary policies."

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, has said he welcomes the administration's intervention in the Democrat-run city, which has logged significant drops in crime and is on track to have its lowest number of homicides in nearly 50 years, according to crime data from the police department.

The Trump administration also began an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News. The operation comes after Trump launched into a hate-filled rant against Somalia and Somali immigrants living in the U.S. for the second day in a row, saying they've "destroyed Minnesota" and "our country" in his latest comments.

A senior law enforcement administration official told NBC News that ICE officers are not specifically targeting Somali immigrants and their families but may be arresting some who they allege have violated immigration laws.  Read the full story.