Inside Trump’s immigration crackdown
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
As the Trump administration ramps up immigration arrests, it’s promoting a simple story: They are getting the dangerous criminals out. But to get to the massive numbers of deportations that President Donald Trump has promised, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is also arresting people without violent or criminal offenses on their records. Those arrests have spread fear among undocumented immigrants and their family members.
Today, a look inside two recent ICE arrests. First, host Martine Powers speaks with immigration reporter Nick Miroff about his recent ride along with ICE in New York City. Then, a visit to Newark, New Jersey, where investigative immigration reporter Silvia Foster-Frau reported on ICE’s arrest of three men working at a seafood distributor.
Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff and Emma Talkoff. It was edited by Reena Flores with help from Maggie Penman. It was mixed by Sam Bair. Thanks to Jenna Johnson.
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration is ramping up immigration enforcement across the country, trying to arrest more migrants. |
| 0:09.9 | And it's promoting an image of these arrests that tells a simple story. |
| 0:14.3 | We're getting the dangerous criminals out. |
| 0:17.5 | In some cases, immigration officials are inviting friendly messengers like TV personality Dr. Phil to help spread the word. |
| 0:24.6 | We are following breaking news because Dr. Phil has actually allowed himself, has been allowed to embed with ICE agents. |
| 0:33.6 | This truly is a targeted ICE mission because they're not sweeping neighborhoods like people are trying to imply. |
| 0:43.3 | I know that because I've been involved in this heading into this. |
| 0:47.3 | They've identified 270 high-value targets. |
| 0:52.3 | And what I mean by that is these are known criminals and terrorists. |
| 0:58.5 | But there's more to that story. |
| 1:01.6 | To get to the massive numbers of deportations |
| 1:04.7 | that the Trump administration has promised, |
| 1:07.2 | ICE is also arresting people without violent or criminal offenses on their records. |
| 1:12.7 | People who are just here to work. |
| 1:15.4 | Those arrests have spread fear among undocumented immigrants and their family members. |
| 1:20.4 | We're always on alert. |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah, the community doesn't feel as safe as they used to be. |
| 1:28.7 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post reports. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 1:34.6 | It's Wednesday, February 5th. |
| 1:37.0 | Today, the story of two recent ICE operations. |
| 1:41.1 | And the fuller picture they can give us of how immigration enforcement has changed |
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