By AFPMore by this AuthorWASHINGTONUS authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented migrants this week in the first large-scale raids under President Donald Trump, triggering panic in immigrant communities nationwide. By Friday night, 37 undocumented immigrants had already been expelled to Mexico. The agency conducted the last sweep in March 2015, corralling 2,059 undocumented immigrants deemed threats to "public safety". In New York, which hosts the country's largest population of undocumented immigrants — 1.15 million, according to Pew — a few hundred people demonstrated near the immigration services office. Undocumented migrants with repeated drunk driving convictions were also targeted.

Source: Daily Nation February 12, 2017 04:30 UTC