Trump's ICE arrests non-criminals despite crime-focused message
Source: Reuters
June 13, 2025 2:04 PM EDT Updated an hour ago
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - The number of people booked into immigration detention who have been charged only with immigration violations has jumped eight-fold since President Donald Trump took office, government data shows, undercutting his anti-crime message.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention statistics show the number of detainees arrested by ICE with no other criminal charges or convictions rose from about 860 in January to 7,800 this month - a more than 800% increase. Those arrested and detained with criminal charges or convictions also rose, but at a lower rate of 91%.
Trump took office in January pledging to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, framing the push as needed to remove serious criminals. The White House said ICE had arrested more than 100,000 immigrants as of early June, putting the daily average at more than double the pace last year under former President Joe Biden. Still, it remains far below what Trump would need to remove millions from the U.S. Top White House official Stephen Miller in late May demanded that ICE begin arresting 3,000 migrants per day - three times an earlier quota of 1,000.
Raids in Los Angeles and in other parts of the country swept in non-criminals and have sparked protests calling for ICE to stand down. When you have an agenda that sets quotas at 3,000 arrests a day, there are not even enough people that pose a public safety threat to meet that number,” said Nayna Gupta, policy director at the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration think tank.
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