Deportations of traffic offenders skyrocketed under Trump, study says

In pushing for increased coordination between federal immigration agencies and local law enforcement, the Trump administration has contended that those types of partnerships are key to ridding the country of unauthorized immigrants who are also violent criminals.

But in President Donald Trump's first year in office, the largest increase in deportations through the most prominent of those partnerships, the Secure Communities program, was not of murderers or rapists, but of immigrants who allegedly committed traffic violations, according to new federal data analyzed by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.