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José Olivares and Will Craft in New York

Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention

a masked man wearing a tactical vest escorts a detained man into a stairwell
A federal agent escorts a detained man to a stairwell after his immigration hearing in the Jacob K Javits federal building in New York on 17 July. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

Immigrants with no criminal record are now the largest group in US immigration detention, according to data released by the government. The number of people with no criminal history arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and detained by the Trump administration has now surpassed the number of those charged with crimes.

Ice, the federal agency most heavily relied upon by Donald Trump to carry out the US president’s mass deportation campaign, released its latest numbers on Thursday.

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