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Illegal Immigrant Arrests Up 85% in New England Under Trump

April 25, 2017

From January 20 to March 13 in 2016, federal immigration agents in New England arrested 444 people, compared with 240 during that stretch in the last year of the Obama presidency. But agents from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency actually arrested more people during the same period in 2014 than they did this year.