Lower than 14% of these arrested by ICE in Trump’s 1st 12 months again in workplace had violent felony data, doc reveals

Lower than 14% of practically 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump’s first 12 months again within the White Home had costs or convictions for violent felony offenses, in accordance with an inner Division of Homeland Safety doc obtained by CBS Information.

The official statistics contained within the DHS doc, which had not been beforehand reported publicly, present probably the most detailed look but into who ICE has arrested through the Trump administration’s far-reaching deportation operations throughout the U.S.

The interior DHS figures undermine frequent assertions by the Trump administration that its crackdown on unlawful immigration is primarily concentrating on harmful and violent criminals residing within the U.S. illegally, individuals Mr. Trump and his lieutenants have frequently known as  the “worst of the worst.”  

The statistics present ICE has dramatically elevated arrests since Mr. Trump’s return to workplace. Almost 60% of ICE arrestees over the previous 12 months had felony costs or convictions, the doc signifies. However amongst that inhabitants, the vast majority of the felony costs or convictions aren’t for violent crimes. 

For instance, whereas Mr. Trump and his aides usually discuss immigration officers concentrating on murderers, rapists and gangsters, the inner information point out that lower than 2% of these arrested by ICE over the previous 12 months had murder or sexual assault costs or convictions. One other 2% of these taken into ICE custody have been accused of being gang members.

Almost 40% of all of these arrested by ICE in Mr. Trump’s first 12 months again in workplace didn’t have any felony document in any respect, and have been solely accused of civil immigration offenses, reminiscent of residing within the U.S. illegally or overstaying their permission to be within the nation, the DHS doc reveals. These alleged violations of U.S. immigration regulation are sometimes adjudicated by Justice Division immigration judges in civil — not felony — proceedings.

Whereas Mr. Trump’s deportation program loved majority help through the 2024 presidential marketing campaign and his early months in workplace, public opposition to his crackdown has grown considerably due to considerations about brokers’ ways in cities like Minneapolis and over who’s being swept up by their operations.

A CBS Information ballot final month discovered that Individuals’ help for Mr. Trump’s deportation efforts had fallen to 46%, down from 59% at the beginning of his second time period. Simply over 60% of these surveyed mentioned immigration brokers have been being “too powerful.”

CBS Information reached out to the Division of Homeland Safety, which oversees ICE, requesting touch upon the information reported within the doc.

What the statistics present about ICE arrests below Trump 

The DHS doc obtained by CBS Information signifies that ICE made roughly 393,000 arrests between Jan. 21, 2025, Mr. Trump’s first full day again in energy, and Jan. 31 of this 12 months.

ICE categorized round 229,000 of these arrested as “felony aliens,” as a result of they’d felony costs or convictions. About 153,000 of the arrests have been categorized as “different administrative arrests,” or detentions of immigrants missing any felony document. Almost 11,000 of the arrests have been “felony arrests” of noncitizens taken into ICE custody as a consequence of new felony allegations, like interfering with operations.

In complete, ICE made greater than triple the variety of administrative arrests, together with of criminals, over the previous 12 months below Mr. Trump than the company did in fiscal 12 months 2024, when it recorded 113,000 administrative arrests through the Biden administration.

The share of ICE arrests of these with felony histories, nevertheless, went down, from 72% in fiscal 12 months 2024, to almost 60% in Mr. Trump’s first 12 months.

The figures point out that roughly 7,500 — or 1.9% — of the ICE arrests concerned people accused of belonging to gangs like Tren de Aragua, a felony group with origins in Venezuela’s prisons. Mr. Trump initially made the gang a focus of his crackdown, deporting greater than 200 males accused of being Tren de Aragua members to a infamous jail in El Salvador. A CBS Information and “60 Minutes” investigation final 12 months discovered a lot of the males didn’t have any obvious felony document.

The interior DHS doc lays out probably the most severe cost or conviction for these arrested by ICE with felony histories.

The doc lists 2,100 arrests of these with murder costs or convictions; 2,700 arrests of these with theft offenses; and 5,400 arrests involving people charged with or convicted of sexual assault. One other 43,000 arrestees are listed as having assault costs or convictions. About 1,100 had kidnapping costs or convictions and 350 had arson offenses listed.

Added collectively, the variety of ICE arrests involving people charged with or convicted of the aforementioned violent crimes represents round 13.9% of all arrests. 

The doc additionally says ICE arrested 22,600 people with costs or convictions involving harmful medication, whereas one other 6,100 had weapons offenses on their data. Almost 30,000 of these arrested by ICE had been charged with or convicted with driving whereas below affect or intoxicated. One other 5,000 arrestees had housebreaking costs or convictions.

The doc says one other 118,000 detainees had felony costs or convictions for “different” crimes. These might embody immigration-related crimes, like getting into the U.S. illegally, a misdemeanor for the first-time offense, or re-entering the nation after being deported, a felony. 

The information within the DHS doc doesn’t embody arrests by Border Patrol brokers, who the Trump administration has deployed to locations distant from the U.S.-Mexico border, like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. In these cities, Border Patrol brokers have undertaken aggressive and sweeping arrest operations, concentrating on day laborers at Dwelling Depot parking heaps and stopping individuals, together with U.S. residents, to query them about their immigration standing.