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Posted on 07/25/2025 12:15:51 PM PDT by Libloather
Despite Trump administration rhetoric accusing Democrats of protecting violent criminals and drug-dealing immigrants, the administration’s arrests have been catching a smaller share of criminals overall, and a smaller share of people convicted of violent and drug crimes, than the Biden administration did in the same time frame.
While the Trump administration has caught more immigrants with convictions for drugs and violence, their share of the rising arrest numbers is smaller, as more people get swept up for minor traffic violations or strictly immigration crimes, according to a Stateline analysis.
Forty percent of the nearly 112,000 arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from Jan. 20 through late June were of convicted criminals. That’s compared with 53% of the nearly 51,000 arrests for same time period in 2024 under the Biden administration.
The share of people convicted of violent crime fell from 10% to 7% and drug crimes from 9% to 5%, according to a Stateline analysis of data from the Deportation Data Project.
The project, led by attorneys and professors in California, Maryland and New York, collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.
Some Democratic states are among those with the highest share of violent criminals in this year’s ICE arrests: Hawaii (15%), Vermont (13%), and California and Nebraska (12%) — while some of the lowest shares were in more Republican states: Maine (2%), and Alabama, Montana and Wyoming (3%).
Immigration attorneys see an increased push to arrest and detain immigrants for any type of violation or pending charge as President Donald Trump pushes for higher arrest and detention numbers to meet his campaign promise for mass deportation. Trump officials have called for 3,000 arrests a day, far more than the current average of 711...
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The premise that the editorialist is trying to sell is idiotic.
They aren’t all convicted...yet. But all are criminals.
That source is from Oregon and part-—a small part-—of the reason many good people disapprove of the filth in Oregon and Washington (state).
The people there will throw their bodies in front of a van carrying a violent illegal and feel like heroes.
Oregon.
40.97% Trump 2024
40.37% Trump 2020
39.09% Trump 2016
Ooops. Its from Oregon.
ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL.
If you really break this down the answer is obvious, the left isn’t bothered by illegal immigrants convicted criminals or not for one simple reason. They have no problem with US citizens who routinely break the laws,convicted or otherwise, because many of them are in that category.
But all criminals!
strictly immigration crimes
Gee,,,that last word says a LOT...
And I don’t care...this IS what I voted for. Get them all out.
“What don’t they get about the word ‘illegal’.”
I don’t watch Charlie Kirk often, but I did today. He had a segment about something that I’ve been thinking about for a long time, i.e., LEGAL immigrants who are as dangerous as, and even more dangerous than, illegals.
They’re the ones who, even if they’re born here, clearly call Somalia, Mexico, etc., “home”, and work against America.
He has coined a phrase, “Immigration withou assimilation is invasion.”
So?
Are they in the country illegally? well then....
Quite steady at 40%, surprising.
I see no distinction. Illegal aliens are all the same. Move em out.
They are ILLEGALS. They do not belong here. They arre economically destructive even if their only offenses are to have entered illegally and to have sucked up tons of taxpayer mney supporting them. Send them home or to some other hellhole of their choice.
I agree. What’s the point?
I would venture to say that almost all convicted criminals were arrested at least once without being a convicted criminal...
The process is (commit a crime) -> (get arrested) -> (get convict).
They have already done the first step. Getting arrested is the second.
I thought we wanted to remove illegals and end the entire illegal problem, how is this being turned into, that they have to have been caught and convicted of a crime to make removal palatable?
Without even reading the article I know that a great many people are wanted for serious crimes even if they have not yet been convicted.
If they committed a rape or murder in Central America and fled legally to the United States then they have not yet been convicted. I still don’t want them here.
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