What this shows is that a staggering 63%(!) of people arrested by ICE in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge (from December through February) had no criminal record at all.
articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Doctora Malka Older
Quick and dirty; here's ICE arrests in Minnesota by criminality, from October 2025 to early March 2026. Note the MASSIVE spike in arrests of people with no criminal record
/"convicted criminal" means any conviction no matter how minor. "Other immigration violator" means no known criminal record.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, NEW DATA HAS ARRIVED.
/it's not like I have anything else to do today, no, what are you talking about?
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Huge news.
The good people @deportationdata.org obtained updated ICE case records through a FOIA lawsuit.
The dataset goes from October 2022 through *early March 2026.* deportationdata.org/data/ice.html
Adam Sawyer
really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.
I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...
This was an aggravating read [a reprise of mentally arthritic MAGA posts], but it has a snappy ending:
Jesus K. 💀
Aaron, what would we do without you to snapshot this dumpster fire to remind us just how awful these people are.
"By one estimate, dairies that employ immigrant workers produce 79 percent of the nation’s milk supply and the price of milk would double without them." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
