Data shows that most people arrested in U.S. immigration attacks have no criminal record.
U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to deport “the worst” from the worst, but most of the people currently detained by immigration agents have not been criminally convicted.
Again, relatively few charges are high-level crimes – in stark contrast to Trump’s shocking nightmare in support of his border security agenda.
The latest U.S. immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) statistics show that as of June 29, 57,861 people were detained by ICE, 41,495-71.7% – of which there were no criminal convictions. These include 14,318 pending criminal charges and 27,177 being bound by immigration enforcement, but there are no known criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.
“There is a profound disconnect between speech and reality,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-faculty director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA Law School.
Each detainee allocated a threat level to the ICE in a ratio of 1 to 3, with one being the highest. Those with no criminal record are classified as “no ice threat level.” As of June 23, the latest data available, 84% of the 201 facilities detained nationwide did not give threat levels. Another 7% were rated as Level 1 Threat, 4% were Level 2, and 5% were Level 3.
White House spokesman Abigail Jackson said the administration is strongly focused on uncensored criminals who are illegally rooted in the country.
“Just this week, the government successfully rescued a successful operation in a cannabis facility in California, thereby rescuing labor exploitation and continuing to arrest the worst, including murderers, pedophiles, gang members and rapists,” she wrote in an email. “Any advice to the government not focus on these dangerous criminals is wrong.”
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Non-public data obtained by the Cato Institute, a liberal think tank, shows that 65% of the more than 204,000 people who have been ICE processed into the system by ICE since the beginning of 2025, which began in 2025, 2025, have not been criminally convicted. Of those convicted, only 6.9% committed violent crimes, while 53% committed nonviolent crimes, which were divided into three main categories – immigration, transportation or mischief crimes.
While most detainees are not convicted criminals, some have committed serious crimes. On Friday, the government released information about five senior criminals arrested.
During his campaign, Trump called immigration “a pest” and highlighted several cases in which he was illegally arrested for terror charges in the country.
In January, he signed the Laken Riley Act, a bill that calls for the detention of unauthorized immigrants charged with theft and violent crimes. The bill was named after the 22-year-old Georgia Nursing School, a student who was illegally killed by Venezuelans in the United States last year.
However, research has been finding that immigrants did not drive violent crimes in the United States, and in fact they committed fewer crimes than locally born Americans. For example, the National Bureau of Economic Research’s 2023 Working Paper reports that the 150-year incarceration rate for immigrants is lower than those actually born in the United States, with a rate that has declined since 1960 – an immigrant is 60% less likely to be incarcerated.
“President Trump said to some extent that this immigration agenda is justified,” said Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior director of judicial programs at the Brennan Justice Center. “There is no research and evidence to support his claim. ”
The U.S. Court of Appeals allowed President Donald Trump to uphold the deployment of California National Guard forces in Los Angeles, temporarily suspending the lower court’s ruling, which should be returned to the state.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller arrested the total ice arrest at the end of May, and Stephen Miller gave the agency 3,000 people a day, up from 650 a day in the first five months of Trump’s second term. According to the Clearinghouse or TRAC, ICE arrested nearly 30% of people in May. That figure increased by another 28% in June.
Experts say false remarks from the Trump administration have caused real harm.
According to the ACLU, the recent wave of immigration enforcement is driven by “arbitrary arrest quotas” and is based on “widespread stereotypes based on race or race.”
Despite claims that ICE is targeting dangerous criminals, new data suggest that the vast majority of its arrests are made by immigrants without criminal convictions, many of whom are nothing more than transportation or immigration violations.
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Farm raid becomes fatal
Immigration and Latino communities across Southern California have been at the edge since the Trump administration stepped up arrests of cars, Home Depot parking lots, immigration courts and a range of operations. Thousands of people attended the rally in the area and subsequently deployed the National Guard and Marines to the Los Angeles area.
A farm worker fell from the roof of a greenhouse during a chaotic ice raid at a California marijuana facility this week and died Saturday from his injuries, becoming the first known person to die in an ongoing immigration enforcement campaign by the Trump administration. Yesenia Duran, 57-year-old Jaime Alanis’ niece, confirmed Alanis’ death at the Associated Press.
The Department of Homeland Security said a criminal search warrant was executed at the Glass House Farms facilities in Camarillo and Carpinteria on Thursday. Glass House is a licensed marijuana grower. Camarillo’s farm also grows tomatoes and cucumbers.
According to family members, hospital and government sources, Alanis called his family and said he was hiding, probably running away from the neck of a nine-meter-meter-long neck from the roof, fleeing agents.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that agents arrested about 200 people, suspected of illegally in the country. The agency said Alanis was not among them.
During the attack, large numbers of people gathered outside the Camarillo facility to seek information about their relatives and protest immigration enforcement. Authorities wore military-style helmets and uniforms to face the protesters, and people eventually retreated in the irritating rolling green and white smoke.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), four U.S. citizens were arrested for “attacking or resisting officers” during the incident, and authorities offered $50,000 in rewards to those suspected of shooting firearms at federal agents.
