The Trump administration’s tactics to swiftly detain and deport immigrants have businesses and advocates in New York City bracing for a crackdown, even as new data shows fewer arrests than other big cities with large immigrant populations.
More than 1,900 people have been arrested in New York City by federal immigration authorities since President Donald Trump took office, an 11% increase from the same period last year, according to figures obtained by the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by Bloomberg. That’s far less than the increases in Los Angeles (69%), Chicago (57%) and Miami (161%).
But there’s an atmosphere of anxiety in New York, fueled in ...
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