The Deportation Data Project recently revealed the results of FOIL requests to U.S. Immigration, Customs and Enforcement for arrests made in the last three years.
New York Immigration Coalition played a role in analyzing the data, of which one of the biggest trends is the population being arrested.
“We see disproportionate arrests of Latinos, and what’s really new is that we show that it doesn’t matter what country of Latin America a person comes from, there are disproportionate arrests of those folks,” Mario Bruzzone, Vice President of Policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, says. “Ecuadorians are 4% of immigrants in New York State. They’re 25% of ICE arrests. Mexicans are 5.5% of the immigrants here. They’re 10% of arrests. Guatemalans and Hondurans are both around 1.5% of non citizens, but they’re 8.5% and 6% of ice arrests and so on down the line. That part is really, really new, like no one has shown so far, that non citizens of nearly every nationality are disproportionately targeted by ICE, and that’s true both in New York and across the nation.”…