Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump’s first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.
ICE classified around 229,000 of those arrested as “criminal aliens,” because they had criminal charges or convictions. About 153,000 of the arrests were categorized as “other administrative arrests,” or detentions of immigrants lacking any criminal record. Nearly 11,000 of the arrests were “criminal arrests” of noncitizens taken into ICE custody due to new criminal allegations, like interfering with operations.