We know some numbers but not others. We are missing some key information here.
We know that the New York City office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ballooned by 266%. In 2016, they had 313 employees. Now they have 1,144.
Apparently the people responsible for ICE know the raw numbers of migrants they arrest. But so far as we know, their numbers are not publicly broken down between people with criminal records and the obviously larger number of people who have not broken any laws.
If you want to pad the numbers of people you have deported, you deport the easy ones. If you arrest criminals, criminals might hurt you for one thing. It's an old bureaucratic trick: If your supervisors are looking for numbers, give them numbers.
But that's not good enough. We need to know how many of these people being deported have criminal records because that's where the primary focus should land, on violent criminals who are here illegally.
It should not be public policy to make your first priority be the people who have not broken the law.
This is (still) America: Catch the criminals first! That should be the first priority of any organization that calls itself a "law enforcement agency."
See generally Christina Goldbaum, Asylum Seekers Got Relief. Then ICE Moved In. New York Times, p. A1, Monday, April 22, 2019 (reporting that certain immigrants were granted temporary residency when President Obama was in office for so long as they continuously checked in with ICE, but after President Trump took office ICE started arresting these people when they checked in and because they know exactly where they are; posted online with a different headline; before you click on the hyperlink, be aware that The New York Times may charge you for it).
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