NBC News: "ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows"

Kevin R. Johnson

08 Dec 2025 — 1 min read

Laura Strickler and Julia Ainsley for NBC News reports that "[m]ore than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal histories . . . . The data, which includes ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to Oct. 15, shows that nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records have been swept up in immigration operations that the president and his top officials have said would target murderers, rapists and gang members."

From the Bookshelves: Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America by Bernadette Ludwig

Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America by Bernadette Ludwig (2025) Rutgers University Press description of the book: Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, New York, home to the largest per capita concentration of Liberians in the U.S., that sheds light on

Immigration Article of the Day: Blind Spots: Choice, Colorblindness, and the Contemporary Experience of Latinx Immigrant Students in America's Schools by Rachel E. Moran

Blind Spots: Choice, Colorblindness, and the Contemporary Experience of Latinx Immigrant Students in America's Schools by Rachel E. Moran, Arizona State University Law Review, Forthcoming 2027 Abstract Our nation’s understanding of educational opportunity for Latinx immigrant students in the United States is shaped by two prominent narratives

Family Separation Archive

From American Immigration Council: The Council and Georgetown Law Library Publish Family Separation Archive On October 13, Georgetown Law Library launched an archive of documents on the Trump administration’s implementation of the Zero Tolerance Policy in 2018, which separated thousands of parents from their children after they crossed into

"Six Charged in Large Scale Marriage Fraud Ring"

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced today that six defendants "have been charged with allegedly arranging sham marriages to fraudulently obtain immigration status for illegal aliens. The organization’s leader has allegedly been orchestrating sham marriages for illegal aliens to enable them

Read more

From the Bookshelves: Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America by Bernadette Ludwig

Immigration Article of the Day: Blind Spots: Choice, Colorblindness, and the Contemporary Experience of Latinx Immigrant Students in America's Schools by Rachel E. Moran

Family Separation Archive

"Six Charged in Large Scale Marriage Fraud Ring"