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Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) presence in the U.S. has increased, most recently with officers being deployed to airports in major cities to support airport security operations. With ICE officers in the headlines as a result of this heightened presence, there has been increasing attention on immigration detention centers and the constitutionality of their policies and treatment of non-citizens.
Read MoreUS immigration is now, more than ever, at the forefront of a polarized debate that implicates both enforcement and economics. The Trump administration embarked on an unprecedented strengthening of immigration enforcement that reduced refugee admissions to its lowest mark since 1980.[1] Between President Trump’s first day in office on January 20, 2017 to the end of the 2017 fiscal year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 61,000 immigrants from within the country, marking a 37% increase from the same time in 2016.[2]
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