Federal immigration authorities arrested 261 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, deporting 86 of them, according to Department of Homeland Security figures shared with Congress and obtained by CBS News.
In a letter to Sen. Dick Durbin, DHS said that 241 of the 261 DACA beneficiaries taken into custody between Jan. 1 and Nov. 19, 2025 — or 92% — had "criminal histories" beyond civil immigration violations. The letter, signed by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, did not detail the severity of the alleged offenses. DHS typically counts both pending charges and convictions as criminal histories.
