Donald Trump and his Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem vowed to find and arrest “the worst of the worst” and “violent” criminal offenders among the immigrants they rounded up with a surge of federal officers into U.S. cities over the last several months.
Those high-profile immigration enforcement operations in major cities across the country locked up thousands. But the vast majority have not been convicted of any crime, and more than half do not have any criminal record whatsoever.
