Show-Me MAGA Mass Deportation Spike

Agree or disagree about the merits of the policy switcheroo . . . There's no denying the numbers.

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Since January 2025, more than 3,200 people from nearly 80 countries have been arrested by ICE in Missouri, according to new figures released by the Deportation Data Project, which obtained ICE data through a public records lawsuit. That’s 2.7 times the number of unauthorized immigrants arrested in Missouri during a similar window at the end of the Biden administration, when 1,200 people were taken into custody.

“When the administration indicated that they were going to detain everyone, that’s what they’re doing,” said Rekha Sharma-Crawford, a Kansas City attorney who has been an immigration litigator for more than 25 years.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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