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...
(Excerpt) Read more at oregoncapitalchronicle.com ...
Oh dear....only half are criminals...like that’s a bad thing?
The illegals don’t need to convicted of a crime to be deported.
The paper is from Oregon. That says it all.
But of course! (:
That’s why these left wing articles are stupid.
exactly
We don’t care if they are convicted criminals. Are they illegal...then ship them out...
The U.S. Citizens liberals HATE the most are racial minorities that don’t buy into their worldview. Judge Clarence Thomas is the best example. Straight, white, Christian, law abiding men are further down their hate list.
That’s because you are not a democrat needing votes.
And I’m perfectly happy with that result.
30% or 40% of deportees being violent criminals is a spectacular outcome, in terms of the reduced load on our legal system and the pain and misery they inflict upon others. That’s exactly what government should be doing.
All the people here illegally here are criminals.
Schumer is not a CONVICTED felon either, yet.
So?
Illegal = criminal.
100% agree.
As the libs like to say : “If it saves the life of even one child ...... “
Note the use of the pharase “convicted criminals.” This is significant for two reasons.
1. How many are criminals but not caught and brought to court for prosecution and conviction or innocent.
2. The moment they crossed the border illegally was a criminal act. The premise of the article is that illegal crossing is not a criminal act and they are not criminal until they commit a second felony. Most are economic refugees with a small but hyper deadly portion of hardened criminals. The article is left wing propaganda or as we prefer to say in Texas, Bull S—t!
PS
I am a white boy raised on the border that speaks Spanish and married to a Mexican from Mexico now a US citizen the legal way. She came here as a student and has more than one degree from our Universities. Last job was software engineer. She found the American Dream and ran with it.
Their very presence on US soil is a violation of federal law.
Deport.
So ???
They’re all illegal aliens
They ALL get deported...
None of us do.
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