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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Guns seized and federal drug arrests drop dramatically as Trump team turns agents attention to deportations

Federal arrests for drug and weapons crimes have plunged over the last year as Donald Trump’s administration prioritizes immigration raids to support the president’s mass deportation agenda.

Homeland Security officers have arrested more than 94,500 people for civil immigration offenses within the first year of the second Trump administration, according to a review of internal government data from The New York Times.

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