What the numbers reveal about Trump’s mass-deportation plan

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  Good morning. It's Friday, July 25th.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, what it's like to witness an execution in modern day America.

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  As summer heats up,

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  so has Europe's political and cultural debate over air conditioning and how sharks could help us detect hurricanes.

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  But first,

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  to immigration and tracking President Trump's push to deport 1 million people in his first year.

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  We're about at the halfway point, and thanks to some recent Guardian reporting and academic work,

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  for the first time we have a by-the-numbers picture of where things stand.

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  ICE does not publish detailed data on arrests, detentions, or deportations.

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  But through the Freedom of Information Act,

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  a group of lawyers and academics have been tracking the agency's actions in what they call the deportation data project.

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  Here's Will Kraft, data editor for The Guardian, who's been studying the findings.

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  To get really granular, to really understand what is happening on the street,

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  in people's communities, you need data that the government doesn't want to release.

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  According to the tracking project,

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  immigration-related arrests initially surged after Trump's inauguration.

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  And there was another big spike after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered ICE officials in late May to make 3,000 arrests every day.

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  ICE is still far short of that goal.

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