Trump's Immigration Raids Aren't the Problem

By one measure, President Donald Trump’s immigration policy is one-third as harsh as his predecessor’s -- but it has generated at least as much if not more controversy. This is unfortunate, both because this particular controversy is unjustified and because it distracts from bigger problems.

Federal agents made 680 arrests in a series of immigration raids last week, sparking shock and alarm among immigrant communities that mass deportations are in the offing. Yet that number was one-third of the 2,059 arrests of criminal aliens made during five days in March 2015 under President Barack Obama, who was criticized by immigration activists as the “deporter-in-chief.” The question, as ever, is not so much what to do about criminals in the U.S. illegally, but what to do about the mostly innocent 11 million undocumented aliens in the U.S.