The number of immigrants arrested and deported in the New York City region has surged over the last fiscal year, despite city and state efforts to resist the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented New Yorkers.
According to figures released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday, 158,581 aliens were arrested nationally in the 2018 fiscal year ending in September, an increase of 11 percent over the previous year.
By comparison, arrests in the New York region went up by 35 percent, for a total of 3,476.