A 2% success rate does suggest that the cost/benefit weighed in on the side of being a stunt, much like the advance notice.
Just 35 people were taken into custody during the recent series of highly publicized raids targeting more than 2,100 immigrant family members with deportation orders, acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Matthew Albence said Tuesday.
Of those arrested, Albence said 18 were part of family units and 17 others were not specifically targeted by the operation.
President Trump had promoted the July 13 weekend raids, known as Operation Border Resolve, as a major effort to deter the influx of migrants from Central America, who often cross the U.S. southern border together as a family unit.
Trump last week said the raids were “very successful,” even though many of the arrests were not seen by the public. Trump declined to say how many immigrants had been apprehended.
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