Florida officials have been accused of quietly scrubbing records showing U.S. citizens were swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet after a local paper started asking questions.
The state, led by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, has collaborated closely with the administration to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push. Earlier this month, Florida launched an online dashboard tracking arrests of suspected undocumented immigrants.
The Miami New Times reports that on Oct. 14, the dashboard showed that 21 U.S. citizens had been arrested and charged since Aug. 1. The dashboard reportedly counted another nine U.S. citizens who had encounters with law enforcement but were not arrested.
Yet, the New Times reports that when it inquired why U.S. citizens we