{"id":442401,"date":"2025-12-12T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/442401\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:56:49","slug":"ice-disproportionately-targets-latinos-in-ny-more-than-any-other-ethnic-group-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/442401\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE disproportionately targets Latinos in NY more than any other ethnic group: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latino immigrants have been disproportionately targeted by ICE<\/a> more than any other ethnic group in New York state during the Trump administraton\u2019s crackdown, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> agency has zeroed in on Latino migrants at a rate that far exceeds the pursuit of immigrants who come to America from other countries, according to the New York Immigration Coalition, an advocacy group that studied the federal agency\u2019s enforcement practices across New York and the nation.<\/p>\n

Immigrants from Central and South America are 25% of New York immigrant population but account for 74% of ICE arrests in the state, the study found.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis report lays bare the reality that ICE enforcement in New York is not just heavy-handed\u2014it is discriminatory,\u201d said Mario Bruzzone, vice president of policy at the advocacy grup.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLatino communities are being targeted in their neighborhoods and homes, often regardless of criminal history. City leaders and policymakers must not wait for this trend to worsen. They must act now to protect families and ensure that New York remains a place where immigrant communities are safe, not hunted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same trend exists across the country, analysts said. Growth in arrests was actually slower in New York City than in some cities like Los Angeles, where enforcement can escalate quickly, according to the data.<\/p>\n

And, although much of the focus in New York City has been on courthouse arrests,<\/a> community arrests \u2014 particularly of Latino men without criminal records \u2014 were the primary driver of increased ICE enforcement, the study found.<\/p>\n

\"FederalFederal law enforcement officers detain a man at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan last June. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The coalition\u2019s report analyzed ICE data on 252,571 agency arrests from Jan 20, when President Trump took office for his second term, through July 29 to learn more about the scale of the new administration\u2019s stepped up enforcement.<\/p>\n

And the results in New York, advocates said, are profound.<\/p>\n

This disparity spans nearly every Latino population in the U.S., including Mexicans,, Colombians, Cubans, Peruvians, Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Venezuelans, the report said.<\/p>\n

In New York State, the study found:<\/p>\n

\u25cfEcuadorans are 4.0% of non-citizens but account for 24.9% of ICE\u2019s arrests.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Mexicans are 5.6% of non-citizens but account for 9.9% of ICE\u2019s arrests.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Guatemalans are 1.6% of non-citizens but accounts for 8.4% of ICE\u2019s arrests.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Hondurans are 1.3% of non-citizens but account for 6.0% of ICE\u2019s arrests.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Colombians are 2.8% of non-citizens but account for\u00a0 5.1% of ICE\u2019s arrests.<\/p>\n

An immigrant from Nicaragua is 115 times more likely to be arrested by ICE than one from India and a non-citizen from South America is 28 times more likely to be arrested than one from Europe, the study found.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese numbers reveal that ICE policies have not been applied equitably, and they have serious consequences for real families and neighborhoods,\u201d Chloe East, an associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and one of the researchers, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

An ICE representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration crackdown hasn\u2019t focused primarily on hardened criminals, analysts said.<\/p>\n

ICE\u2019s arrests of immigrants with clean records have grown three times faster than arrests of those with convictions, the report said, noting that 30% of those arrested had no criminal convictions at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith immigrants comprising 44% of the workforce in New York, mass deportations have hurt and will continue to hurt New York,\u201d the report said. \u201cDeportations at this scale mean more than lost jobs \u2014 they threaten the diversity and dynamism that define New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latino immigrants have been disproportionately targeted by ICE more than any other ethnic group in New York state…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":442402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,17259,405,403,5294,8989,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,80,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-442401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-national-politics","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-county","18":"tag-new-york-politics","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkcity","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-nyc-crime","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-sub-county-region","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115706715101417613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}