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Immigration Arrests Surge Amid New Tactics | Boise News
Federal immigration agents are hitting record arrest numbers in July with aggressive new tactics—checkpoints in national forests, airport detentions of academics—yet still fall short of White House daily targets. Critics say the focus on quantity misleads the public about the agency’s true mission, while many arrested are not criminals but visa overstayers or scholars caught in legal limbo, including those returning from awards. Upcoming September rules threaten to spike arrests among students and researchers, economists warn, risking billions in lost economic output by stifling skilled…
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