ICE arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal record during first nine months of Trump’s presidency, records show
More than a third of approximately 222,000 people Immigration and Customs Enforcement He was arrested in the first nine months Trump administration He had no criminal history, despite the White House’s frequent claims that it targeted violent criminals, according to newly obtained data. immigration pressure.
Approximately 75,000 of those arrested between January 20 and October 15 ICE He had no criminal record, according to data obtained in a lawsuit filed against federal authorities by the Deportation Data Project at the University of California at Berkeley.
“This contradicts what the administration has said about convicted felons and what they have said is that they are looking for the worst,” said Ariel Ruiz Soto, senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. said NBC News on the findings.
According to data, the agency makes an average of 824 arrests per day. Well short of reported internal target of 3,000 arrests per day
ICE At the beginning of Trump’s second term, he stopped releasing detailed information about arrests.
Even as the Trump administration said it would go after criminals and violent threats, immigration authorities have arrested thousands of people with criminal records, new data shows (Getty Images)
The data does not include arrest figures for those detained by the Border Patrol, which has taken an increasingly prominent role in the Trump-led deportation process. crackdowns in cities across the countryhowever, other analyzes show similar trends.
During a recent operation in Charlotte, North Carolina, less than a third of the people the Border Patrol arrested were already classified as criminals, according to Homeland Security documents. Obtained by CBS News.
As of mid-November, about 73 percent of the nearly 65,000 people in immigration detention after being arrested by ICE and Border Patrol had no prior criminal convictions, and most of those convicted were for minor offenses such as traffic violations. According to TRAC immigration database.
The Trump administration has directed unprecedented funds to agencies like ICE and Border Patrol (Getty Images)
Immigration officials are pursuing the Trump administration’s goals of record arrests and deportations. Many US citizens were detainedincluding children and agents Accused of random sweeps using racial profiling to target Latinos.
The scope of immigration enforcement will increase under the Trump administration, which has directed $170 billion to ICE and Border Patrol. Part of the Big, Beautiful Design The spending package passed earlier this year was an unprecedented level of funding.
