Caitlin Dickerson

And so about 70 percent of people who are in ICE custody who have no criminal record at all.

And I want to point out.

of the 30 percent who may, that a lot of times those criminal records can be misdemeanors for illegal border crossing, things like traffic violations, very old crimes.

I've reported on people who were picked up and detained by ICE because of a criminal record that was 20 or 30 years old.

I think the officers working on this campaign were emboldened when the Supreme Court decided in an opinion written by Justice Kavanaugh that race and ethnicity and even accent

could be factors for consideration when stopping people.

And so we've seen video of ICE agents acknowledging that they're stopping and questioning people because of their accents, because of the color of their skin.

One of the big ways that they're arresting people is by showing up at places like Home Depot,

where they know undocumented day workers tend to work and look for work.

So it's sort of the opposite of a targeted enforcement campaign.

And that's because of this directive, arrest and deport as many people as possible.

So this is a big difference from the last Trump administration into this one.

The people who were leading any kind of resistance effort under the first Trump administration to some of its more controversial policies, those people are gone.

And Stephen Miller was very open about this.

As soon as Trump won his most recent election, he said anybody who was skeptical of the administration's goals need not apply.

Lots of people who were viewed as more human rights oriented, I'll say, in the Department of Homeland Security, they lost their jobs either through doge cuts or other layoffs to the Department of Homeland Security.

And in general, what I'm hearing is that there's a culture that is just completely hostile toward anyone who's raising questions, not even pushing back, but just simply raising questions about the goals this administration has laid out and then the strategies that it's using to pursue those goals.

So all of that resistance that once existed that was really a moderating force against some of the administration's harshest impulses, that's all gone.

So as is always the case with immigration, the answer is a little complicated, but I'm going to try to break it down.

At the end of last year, the Trump administration was touting more than 600,000 deportations, which sounds like a really high number.