An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows that less than 14% of the nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during President Donald Trump‘s first year back in office had records involving violent criminal offenses.
This data gives the most detailed look yet at who ICE agents are arresting across the United States. The numbers seem to go against the administration’s main argument that their immigration crackdown focuses on the “worst of the worst,” targeting dangerous criminals and violent offenders living in the country without permission.
