Federal immigration agents arrested at least 4,000 people during Operation Metro Surge, according to new data released by the Deportation Data Project.
The vast majority of those arrested between December and March 10 were from Latin America, including half from Ecuador or Mexico. Only 112 were Somali nationals, despite President Donald Trump repeatedly disparaging the Somali community.
The data released March 30 is the most detailed look at the effect of the three-month enforcement surge that brought thousands of protesters into the streets and left two U.S. citizens dead. The region is still recovering, with state and local lawmakers debating whether rental assistance and small business loans will help soften the impact.
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The data does have limitations, according to the Deportation Data Project, a group of academics and attorneys based at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. The group, which obtained the data, said one limitation is that ICE omitted detention stints in hospitals and medical centers.
Only 41 children appear in the roughly 4,030 arrest records, and they do not appear to include Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Columbia Heights student from Ecuador, who was detained with his father Adrian Conejo Arias. An immigration judge rejected their asylum claims, but the family plans to appeal.
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