{"id":47998,"date":"2025-07-08T06:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47998\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T06:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:34:17","slug":"how-immigration-enfocement-has-transformed-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47998\/","title":{"rendered":"How immigration enfocement has transformed in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 New data shows how immigration enforcement in San Diego has transformed under the Trump Administration. Not only have arrests spiked significantly, but a majority involve people with no criminal history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, it seems that anyone would become a number for them to meet their quota is how they are acting upon this,&#8221; said Pedro Rios, a local human rights advocate and director of the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/afsc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Friends Service Committee<\/a>&#8216;s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/afsc.org\/programs\/us-mexico-border-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S.\/Mexico Border program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were shared by the Deportation Data Project, which collected arrest records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement before and during Trump&#8217;s second term.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the complete report by visiting <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/deportationdata.org\/data\/ice.html#arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once you open the file, you can toggle with the filters to narrow the Area of Responsibility to ICE&#8217;s San Diego field office, which covers San Diego and Imperial Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of this year through June 10th, there&#8217;s been 1,042 ICE arrests.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s almost double the total of 602 from all of last year.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751956454_154_\" alt=\"ICE Arrests San Diego\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"708\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Deportation Data Project<\/p>\n<p>This administration has said it wants to target &#8220;the worst of the worst,&#8221; but a majority of the local arrests involve people with no criminal history.<\/p>\n<p>In the same 2025 time span, from Jan.1-June 10, the records show 53% of those arrested by ICE were not convicted criminals, nor did they have any pending charges.<\/p>\n<p>The year before, that same number was cut in half to 26%.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751956457_729_\" alt=\"ice arrests san diego\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"713\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Deportation Data Project<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigration laws have been dysfunctional for many years, and maybe they were meant to be that way,&#8221; Rios said. &#8220;But the dysfunction then does not allow people that have been living in the United States for a long time, people that have made their lives here, to not become targets of immigration enforcement raids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes as President Trump&#8217;s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill will send an additional $165 billion in funding to the Department of Homeland Security, with enough for ICE to hire 10,000 new agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unprecedented budget for increasing ICE operations, including detention, including all of how they&#8217;re able to operate with other government agencies, is reckless,&#8221; Rios said. &#8220;What we will see is a trampling of basic constitutional rights but human rights as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DHS Secretary Kristi Noem put it in a much different light, saying, \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s signing the One Big Beautiful Bill is a win for law and order and the safety and security of the American people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ABC 10News reached out to DHS and ICE&#8217;s San Diego field office for comment late Monday evening. We&#8217;ll let you know when they get back to us.<\/p>\n<p><b>Follow ABC 10News Anchor Max Goldwasser on\u00a0<\/b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/goatwasser\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><b>,\u00a0<\/b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maxgoldwasserFOX17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><b>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MaxGoldwasser?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 New data shows how immigration enforcement in San Diego has transformed under the Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,36839,36840,36841,36842,36843,36844,36845,3549,7264,36846,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-47998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-deportation-data-project","tag-ice-arrests-10news","tag-ice-arrests-san-diego","tag-ice-arrests-san-diego-max-goldwasser","tag-ice-arrests-with-no-criminal-history","tag-ice-stats-10news","tag-immigration-enforcement-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-trump-administration-immigration","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114816225356607497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998","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=47998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}