Skip to Main ContentLess Than 14% Of ICE Arrests In Past Year Had Violent Criminal Records: ReportLess than 14% of the 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the current Trump administration's first year had violent criminal records, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained Monday by CBS News.According to the reported document, around 60% of people arrested by ICE in the past year had criminal charges or convictions of some kind, but relatively few were for violent crimes.The remaining 40% of people arrested by ICE had no criminal record at all. (Any immigration-related allegations are considered a civil matter.)The statistics, as reported by CBS, vastly undermine the Trump administration's continued narrative that it must carry out its sometimes deadly immigration operations across the country in order to target undocumented immigrants with a history of violent crime.See All UpdatesClose
Less Than 14% Of ICE Arrests In Past Year Had Violent Criminal Records: Report
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