Arrests of Immigrants Gaining Speed
February 15, 2018
2/13/18 – Arrests of immigrants in the United States surged by 40% during the past fiscal year, with the biggest jump occurring among immigrants who had committed no crime other than being in the country illegally. This marks one of many ways that government has defined millions of people as being “outside of civil society,” a leading sociologist recently noted in Issues, adding that “We need to think about whether that is something we want our laws to do…and whether there might be a better way of thinking about the human rights of people and the right to social inclusion.”