Brigham Tomco covers Utah’s congressional delegation for the national politics team at the Deseret News. A Utah native, Brigham studied journalism and philosophy at Brigham Young University. He enjoys podcasts, historical nonfiction and going to the park with his wife and two boys.
SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations picked up momentum over the first six months of his second term and is making itself deeply felt in communities throughout the American West.
The number of unauthorized immigrants arrested each month by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has nearly tripled across eight western states — Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming and California — since Trump took office.The spike in ICE enforcement across the country has been accompanied by a massive surge in arrests occurring outside the usual criminal justice pipeline, including a fourfold increase of street arrests in these states, and a fivefold increase in arrests of immigrants who have no criminal charges or convictions. A man and woman are detained and escorted to a bus by federal agents following an appearance at immigration court, June 23, in San Antonio. The number of arrested unauthorized immigrants have tripled since President Trump's second term began. To supporters, the acceleration of federal agents arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants is the fulfillment of a nationwide mandate. Following the largest wave of net migration in U.S. history during the Biden administration, Trump vowed to advance a deportation agenda unlike anything the country had seen before.But advocates on both sides of the issue — and the people caught in the middle — seem to agree there is no easy way out of the country's immigration dilemma. There have been real economic and social costs to unrestrained illegal immigration. And uprooting the immigrants who have made their home in the U.S. will likewise prove to be economically and socially painful.The crux of the debate is which trade-off is worth it — an impasse that, according to a variety of western voices, stems from the failure of elected officials to achieve two apparently consensus positions: ensuring a secure border and providing a legal pathway for immigrants to meet U.S. labor needs and to maintain America's status as a beacon to the world.Related: Gov. Cox announces efforts to assist in deportations once Trump again takes office Gov. Spencer Cox announced plans to assist the Trump administration in deporting undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes and demonstrate a public safety threat. Arrests in the West by the numbers Jasmin Camacho Picazo is hugged by her niece Jenny Cardenas outside the Metropolitan Dete
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