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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One reason is that when they sweep for the criminals, they encounter other illegals. What are they supposed to do, ignore them?
The rest will be convicted...
...but they are all illegals, so I don’t see an issue.
They are all law breakers. They just haven’t been convicted yet.
They are all illegal, so there’s that.
Who are lying by using mislead statistics Arresting 2xs as many in 2005 as Biden did in 2024 means their "analysis" is an apple to oranges comparison. Their conclusions are pure garbage. 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.
They all broke the law. Geez
“Fewer than half of ICE arrests under Trump are convicted criminals”
And the rest are criminals who haven’t been convicted yet.
If they’re here illegally, that makes them criminals. And criminals need to be arrested. Why is that so hard for liberals to understand?
Shades of JD Vance To ABC News: “Do You Even Hear Yourself? “Only A Handful Of Apartment Complexes” Were Taken Over By Migrant Gangs?”
“Do you even hear yourself, Tim Henderson? Fewer than HALF are convicted criminals?”
What is WRONG with these idiots?
but they are all criminals.
Doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be convicted, and it doesn’t mean they haven’t committed any crime Some bleeding heart liberal bs. Illegal entry into the U.S. is a crime.
I find it interesting that the article refers to Maine as a ‘Republican’ state and Nebraska as a ‘Democratic’ state.
It is also interesting that https://whois.domaintools.com/oregoncapitalchronicle.com shows the Oregon Capital Chronicle as hosted in Singapore.
Good point.
So a load of narcotics and illegal weapons and cash from robberies is found in the place where the one guy on the warrant was hiding. So judge would rule they have to ignore the evidence and not allow anything in court referring to any of it. Maybe a young child on the scene as the ones at the marijuana operation would have to be overlooked.
ALL illegals are criminals...ALL!
OUT! GET OUT!!!
yep, 100% of them are criminals, if they came illegally or over stayed their visa. Poor reporting, poor title.
More left wing BS.
Are you responding to something I posted?
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