The Trump (R) Administration is Increasingly Targeting Unauthorized Immigrants with No Criminal Record, as it Ramps-Up Arrests, an Analysis of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Data shows. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi L. Noem often (R) touts that ICE Officers are Arresting the “worst of the worst.” But more than Half of those Removed from the Country since Jan. 20th, do Not have a Criminal Conviction. What’s more, as Arrests increase, the Share of Detained Migrants with a Criminal Conviction has been Dropping.
DHS’s Statistics Office has Stopped publishing Monthly Data on Arrests and Removals. But the "Deportation Data Project", a Team of Lawyers and Academics, worked with the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, to File a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Lawsuit against ICE to Obtain the New Dataset.
The Dataset offers One of the most Detailed Snapshots yet of whom ICE is Arresting and Removing as it attempts to fulfill Trump’s Campaign Promise to Carry out the Largest Deportation Operation in U.S. History. The Examination of the Data shows a substantial Increase in Arrests, but One that is still Significantly below what Trump and His Advisers are attempting to do. That could Change as Congress prepares to infuse DHS with a massive amount of Cash.
The Data shows that ICE Officers have made more than Twice as many Arrests compared with the same period last year. And the Number of People taken into Custody has shot-up over the last Month in particular. Since May 20th, ICE has Averaged nearly 1,000 Arrests per day, compared to about 600 in the prior months. That Uptick still puts ICE below White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s (R) Goal of making a Minimum of 3,000 Arrests a day.
Texas, Florida, and California, registered the Highest Number of Arrests, but many other States saw substantial Increases. In Virginia, ICE Officers Arrested Four times as many People in the First months of the Trump Administration, as they did over that same period in 2024. That is the Biggest Percent Increase of any State. Mexican Migrants are included in the Arrests.
A Majority of the Undocumented Immigrants ICE has Arrested during the Current Trump Administration did Not have a Criminal Conviction. About 40% did have a Conviction, while another 32% had Pending Charges. Details on those Charges and Convictions were Not available. Over 60% of the Undocumented Immigrants Removed from the Country, did Not have a Criminal Conviction. Nearly 40% did have a Conviction, though many of their Crimes involved Nonviolent Offenses.
The Proportion of Detainees with a Criminal Conviction has Fallen in recent months, the Data shows. In January, nearly 46% of those Detained had been Convicted of a Crime. By June, that number had dropped to 30%. The Number of Venezuelan Immigrants Arrested by ICE Quadrupled in the last Two years. The "Migration Policy Institute" estimates that 486,000 Venezuelans were Living as Unauthorized Immigrants in the U.S. as of mid-2023.
Many had what is known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and were Shielded from Deportation. But Trump has now Canceled that Protection for a Large Number of them. But a Federal Judge has put that on Hold, during the Court Case.
The Administration does Not appear on Track to Deport 1 million Migrants this year at its current Pace. The Data, however, offers a Limited picture of the Administration’s Deportation efforts. DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin (R) said that as of Monday, the Trump Administration had made more than 273,000 Arrests and Deported more than 239,000 People. That Data is likely to include CBP Figures that were Not in the Dataset Analyzed.
The Vast Majority of the People Removed by ICE are Men. They accounted for nearly 90% of Removals. Trump Border Czar Tom Homan (R) said that whether the Administration can Fulfill its Goals will depend on Funding. Congressional Republicans now Approve $170 billion more in Spending on Immigration Enforcement and Border Security that could result in a Dramatic Increase in the Number of Arrests.
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