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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Nearly half of migrants recently arrested by ICE have no criminal records despite Trump team’s claims of tactic shift

Nearly half of migrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, in the weeks after two U.S. citizens were killed in Minnesota, had no criminal charges, according to new data.

Between January 24, the day Alex Pretti was killed, and March 10, approximately 41 percent of those arrested had no criminal records, according to government data obtained by a FOIA request from the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by The Independent. The Washington Post was the first to report on the data.

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