Two-Thirds of People Arrested by ICE in Surge Had No Criminal Records, New Data Reveals

source: theintercept.com/2026/03/30/ic…

“The data confirms what the American people have overwhelmingly known, which is that Operation Metro Surge in was a complete failure,” said Elora , director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School and a faculty fellow at the Deportation Data Project. “Instead of targeting the ‘worst of the worst,’ it was ordinary law-abiding people who were caught up in the dragnet, resulting in the needless and cruel separation of families and inflicting untold suffering on American children.”