Saturday, April 11, 2026

They report this like it's a bad thing!-----ICE arrests in Michigan exceed 4,300 amid Trump administration's second term, report reveals | wzzm13.com

New data from the Deportation Data Project reveals that ICE arrest practices shifted significantly.
MICHIGAN, USA — More than 4,300 people were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Michigan between January 2025 and March 2026, according to new data released by researchers at the Deportation Data Project.
Researchers found a sharp increase in immigration arrests after President Donald Trump took office for a second term...
  • A comparison of data from the six months before Trump’s inauguration to January 2026 shows arrests of people without criminal convictions rose nearly ninefold. 
  • Arrests of those with nonviolent convictions doubled, while arrests of people with violent crime convictions increased by more than one-third...

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Hayley Labia LinkedIn

Hayley is an undergraduate student at UCLA double majoring in Statistics and Data Science and Political Science, with a minor in History. She works on the data analysis for the project. She was a 2025 Summer Fellow and is a 2025-2026 URSP Scholar at UCLA. Her independent research examines war memory, inherited trauma, intergenerational communication, Vietnamese diaspora politics, and political identity formation. Hayley hopes to humanize immigration and undocumented people by telling stories with data.


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