US EditionIn Puerto Rico, Immigration Arrests Raise Concerns About Racial Profiling
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Puerto Rico was considered a sanctuary for migrants, but that changed with Donald Trump’s new immigration policy
In Puerto Rico, immigration arrests raise concerns about racial profiling
Recent ICE raids in Puerto Rico have mostly rounded up Dominican immigrants. The island is now reckoning with the role that longstanding anti-Dominican racism and racial profiling may be playing.
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sincomillas.comJacinto (fictional name) was hit by the car last Thursday as he was travelling with his family along Monserrate Avenue in Carolina. Instead of taking the complaint there, the municipal police took him to the Sabana Abajo barracks where he was interrogated about his immigration status, and without giving him time to show the documents he had at home, they arrested him. The guard, from the barracks, said he had to alert U.S. immigration officers a…
Rebecca González heads one of ICE's local domestic intelligence offices. She told NPR how her agents track down immigrants in Puerto Rico to fulfill President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations.
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