
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to begin what he has described as the largest deportation operation in "American history" by ejecting undocumented migrants with a criminal history. But those who fit this criteria only make up a small fraction of the migrant population, a new analysis showed.
Less than 0.5% of the 1.8 million cases in immigration courts during the past fiscal year— involving about 8,400 people— included deportation orders for alleged crimes other than entering the U.S. illegally, an Axios review of government data found.