Prof. Chan Quoted in Star Tribune About Increase in Arrests and Deportations in Minnesota and Nearby States

Professor Linus Chan was quoted in a Star Tribune article about immigration arrests in Minnesota and surrounding states increasing by two-thirds and deportations jumping by more than half this past fiscal year under the Trump administration’s tougher enforcement approach. The St. Paul office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 4,175 people in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Iowa during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. Of those detained, 73 percent had criminal convictions, compared with 87 percent of the immigrants the agency arrested the year before.