I don't recall Christiecrite protesting these incidents.
ICE conducted large-scale workplace raids in Arizona, targeting undocumented immigrants. These raids, part of broader enforcement strategies, resulted in over 1,000 detentions, often separating families and causing community-wide distress. The raids were criticized for racial profiling, lack of due process, and the impact on U.S.-citizen children left behind.
The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the Center for American Progress, titled “Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System,” documented the raids and their consequences. It details how ICE operations led to the detention of parents, with approximately 5,100 children in foster care nationwide due to such enforcement actions.
The Shattered Families report by Race Forward, in collaboration with NILC used FOIA data to estimate 5,100 U.S.-citizen children entered foster care nationwide due to parental detention/deportation— with Arizona highlighted as a hotspot due to aggressive enforcement. It documents cases where ICE raids/audits in states like Arizona triggered child welfare interventions without parental notification, exacerbating separations. In the first half of just one fiscal year, over 46,000 parents of U.S. citizens were deported, many from workplace actions.
The report highlights cases where parents were detained without notification to family members, leaving children stranded. The report criticizes the lack of coordination between ICE and child welfare agencies, exacerbating family separations.
At least 150 immigrants died in ICE detention.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has conducted audits of employee files at more than 2,900 companies. The agency has levied a record $3 million in civil fines so far this year on businesses that hired unauthorized immigrants, according to official figures. Thousands of those workers have been fired, immigrant groups estimate.
Over 800 ICE agents conducted a massive sweep across Nogales, Rio Rico, Tucson, and Phoenix, targeting shuttle services and workplaces in a "crackdown". This led to hundreds of detentions, family separations, and abuse allegations (e.g., warrantless entries into homes and businesses). Community groups like Coalición de Derechos Humanos called it a "new low" under Obama, linking it to Census suppression and increased border deaths, with children left stranded or in temporary care.