Latinos in NY bearing brunt of immigration arrests statewide, report says
Latinos are bearing the brunt of immigration enforcement in New York, accounting for nearly three-quarters of arrests while making up just a quarter of the state's non-citizen population, according to a new
Ecuadorians make up just 4% of New York state’s non-citizen population, but nearly a quarter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in the state, the report found. Venezuelans and Guatemalans account for roughly 1% of the state’s non-citizen population but 7% and 8% of ICE arrests respectively, according to the report by the New York Immigration Coalition, a nonprofit statewide advocacy group, and researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.
“ The reason we zoomed in on Latinos in the report is that that was far and away the group that is being impacted the most by ICE right now,” said Chloe N. East, an associate economics professor at CU Boulder and one of the report's co-authors.
The researchers declined to speculate on reasons for the disproportionate representation by Latino immigrants, but the findings come amid rising criticism that federal immigration officers rely on racial and ethnic profiling in making arrests.
In September, the Supreme Court, in an emergency order,
There was no immediate comment on the report from the Department of Homeland Security or ICE. The Trump administration, aided by some
