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Less than 14% of astir 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful President Trump's archetypal twelvemonth backmost successful the White House had charges oregon convictions for convulsive transgression offenses, according to an interior Department of Homeland Security papers obtained by CBS News.
The authoritative statistic contained successful the DHS document, which had not been antecedently reported publicly, supply the astir elaborate look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's far-reaching deportation operations crossed the U.S.
The interior DHS figures undermine predominant assertions by the Trump medication that its crackdown connected amerciable migration is chiefly targeting unsafe and convulsive criminals surviving successful the U.S. illegally, radical Mr. Trump and his lieutenants person regularly called the "worst of the worst."
The statistic amusement ICE has dramatically accrued arrests since Mr. Trump's instrumentality to office. Nearly 60% of ICE arrestees implicit the past twelvemonth had transgression charges oregon convictions, the papers indicates. But among that population, the bulk of the transgression charges oregon convictions are not for convulsive crimes.
For example, portion Mr. Trump and his aides often speech astir migration officials targeting murderers, rapists and gangsters, the interior information bespeak that little than 2% of those arrested by ICE implicit the past twelvemonth had homicide oregon intersexual battle charges oregon convictions. Another 2% of those taken into ICE custody were accused of being pack members.
Nearly 40% of each of those arrested by ICE successful Mr. Trump's archetypal twelvemonth backmost successful bureau did not person any transgression record astatine all, and were lone accused of civilian migration offenses, specified arsenic surviving successful the U.S. illegally oregon overstaying their support to beryllium successful the country, the DHS papers shows. Those alleged violations of U.S. migration instrumentality are typically adjudicated by Justice Department migration judges successful civilian — not transgression — proceedings.
While Mr. Trump's deportation programme enjoyed bulk enactment during the 2024 statesmanlike run and his aboriginal months successful office, nationalist absorption to his crackdown has grown importantly due to the fact that of concerns astir agents' tactics successful cities similar Minneapolis and implicit who is being swept up by their operations.
A CBS News poll past period recovered that Americans' enactment for Mr. Trump's deportation efforts had fallen to 46%, down from 59% astatine the commencement of his 2nd term. Just implicit 60% of those surveyed said migration agents were being "too tough."
CBS News reached retired to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, requesting remark connected the information reported successful the document.
What the statistic amusement astir ICE arrests nether Trump
The DHS papers obtained by CBS News indicates that ICE made astir 393,000 arrests betwixt Jan. 21, 2025, Mr. Trump's archetypal afloat time backmost successful power, and Jan. 31 of this year.
ICE classified astir 229,000 of those arrested arsenic "criminal aliens," due to the fact that they had transgression charges oregon convictions. About 153,000 of the arrests were categorized arsenic "other administrative arrests," oregon detentions of immigrants lacking immoderate transgression record. Nearly 11,000 of the arrests were "criminal arrests" of noncitizens taken into ICE custody owed to caller transgression allegations, similar interfering with operations.
In total, ICE made much than triple the fig of administrative arrests, including of criminals, implicit the past twelvemonth nether Mr. Trump than the bureau did successful fiscal twelvemonth 2024, erstwhile it recorded 113,000 administrative arrests during the Biden administration.
The percent of ICE arrests of those with transgression histories, however, went down, from 72% successful fiscal twelvemonth 2024, to astir 60% successful Mr. Trump's archetypal year.
The figures bespeak that astir 7,500 — oregon 1.9% — of the ICE arrests progressive individuals accused of belonging to gangs similar Tren de Aragua, a transgression enactment with origins successful Venezuela's prisons. Mr. Trump initially made the pack a focal constituent of his crackdown, deporting much than 200 men accused of being Tren de Aragua members to a notorious situation successful El Salvador. A CBS News and "60 Minutes" investigation past twelvemonth recovered astir of the men did not person immoderate evident transgression record.
The interior DHS papers lays retired the astir superior complaint oregon condemnation for those arrested by ICE with transgression histories.
The papers lists 2,100 arrests of those with homicide charges oregon convictions; 2,700 arrests of those with robbery offenses; and 5,400 arrests involving individuals charged with oregon convicted of intersexual assault. Another 43,000 arrestees are listed arsenic having battle charges oregon convictions. About 1,100 had kidnapping charges oregon convictions and 350 had arson offenses listed.
Added together, the fig of ICE arrests involving individuals charged with oregon convicted of the aforementioned convulsive crimes represents astir 13.9% of each arrests.
The papers besides says ICE arrested 22,600 individuals with charges oregon convictions involving unsafe drugs, portion different 6,100 had weapons offenses connected their records. Nearly 30,000 of those arrested by ICE had been charged with oregon convicted with driving portion nether power oregon intoxicated. Another 5,000 arrestees had burglary charges oregon convictions.
The papers says different 118,000 detainees had transgression charges oregon convictions for "other" crimes. Those could see immigration-related crimes, similar entering the U.S. illegally, a misdemeanor for the first-time offense, oregon re-entering the state aft being deported, a felony.
The information successful the DHS papers does not see arrests by Border Patrol agents, who the Trump medication has deployed to places acold distant from the U.S.-Mexico border, similar Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. In those cities, Border Patrol agents person undertaken assertive and sweeping apprehension operations, targeting time laborers astatine Home Depot parking tons and stopping people, including U.S. citizens, to question them astir their migration status.
Julia Ingram contributed to this report.
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