Immigration street sweeps led to more ‘collateral’ arrests of noncriminals

About this episode

The episode discusses the increase in collateral arrests by immigration authorities and the legal challenges surrounding them.

A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as “collateral,” a type of arrest and detention that’s been challenged in court as an end run around civil rights. Public outrage and lawsuits over the arrests may be tamping down the large-scale sweeps that foster them, but tens of […]

Topics covered

• immigration
• civil rights
• law enforcement
• arrests
• public outrage

Keywords

• immigration arrests
• collateral arrests
• civil rights
• ICE
• public outrage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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