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Essex County was among 10 counties across the nation that together accounted for more than a quarter of immigration arrests in an eight-month period ending in May, according to a report published this week.
Between October 2017 and May, immigration agents in Essex County made 676 "community" arrests, defined as arrests made directly by immigration authorities rather than local or state law enforcement, according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearing House, or TRAC, a nonpartisan research center at Syracuse University.
Essex County ranked seventh among counties nationally, and it accounted for more than half of the community arrests that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted in New Jersey during that time. The county also edged out Maricopa County, Arizona, where the former sheriff was accused of racial profiling and illegally detaining Latinos in traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants. Half the arrests in Essex County involved people with no criminal record.
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