Overview
- A New York Times analysis using Deportation Data Project records finds less than 30 percent of those arrested in recent city operations had prior criminal convictions, with ICE’s overall share falling to about 28 percent in October.
- Only about 5 percent of arrestees had violent convictions, with local snapshots showing more than 80 percent with no prior record in Washington, D.C., and just 15 percent with prior convictions in Chicago, including 3 percent for violent crimes.
- ICE custody has climbed to a record of more than 60,000 people, and the administration projects deportations could exceed 600,000 within the first year of Trump’s second term.
- DHS has disputed Cato Institute findings based on leaked ICE data, while separately highlighting that New York declined to hold nearly 7,000 people with active detainers this year, a group that included dozens of serious charges.
- The enforcement push is expanding with a new strike team in Minneapolis and “Operation Catahoula Crunch” in southeast Louisiana, as ProPublica reports more than 170 U.S. citizens were detained by immigration agents this year.