DETROIT – Community leaders gathered in Detroit to discuss the ongoing deportation crackdown by the Trump administration.
NBC News has just obtained Customs Enforcement data for April, and it shows that ICE deported over 17,000 people last month.
That’s almost a 30% increase compared to April 2024.
On Wednesday (May 28) night, a discussion at Central United Methodist Church in downtown Detroit addressed issues such as the legal framework behind mass deportations and the conditions in detention centers.
Representative Rashida Tlaib, an outspoken critic of deportation efforts, was in attendance at the meeting.
She says there’s a lot of fear in the communities she represents.
“It spreads so much fear and anxiety to even those that are legally here in our country are so scared that they are going to be targeted.
The cruelty of it, the way that they are very aggressive. It’s kind of militarized. They are coming in there very aggressively and treating them in a way that is very inhumane and wrong."
Representative Rashida Tlaib
The congresswoman’s comments come as the white house asks the Supreme Court to make it easier to deport people to countries that are not their homeland.
