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Immigration Arrests Surge Amid Policy Shifts | Jersey News
Immigration agents are ramping up arrests with aggressive tactics—snatching academics at airports and setting up checkpoints in national forests—pushing July to the highest arrest total of the current administration. But despite the surge, daily arrest goals remain unmet, and more arrests don’t equal more deportations. Many targets are in legal gray areas: scholars and teachers with expired visas, not the “worst of the worst” as claimed. New September visa restrictions could cost the U.S. billions by 2035 by driving out skilled workers. Meanwhile, less than a third of detained individuals…
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