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MOST DETAINEES AREN'T CRIMINALS
UNITED STATES, JUL 18 – Data shows 71.7% of immigrants detained by ICE in fiscal year 2025 had no criminal convictions, challenging claims that deportations target violent offenders.
- On June 29, President Donald Trump pledged to deport `the worst of the worst`, yet ICE data shows 71.7% of detainees had no criminal convictions.
- President Trump vowed to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in U.S. history, and since February his administration has deported an average of 14,700 people per month.
- The Cato Institute found that as of June 14, 65% of over 204,000 people ICE processed since Oct. 1, 2024 had no criminal convictions and only 6.9% of those with convictions committed violent crimes.
- Critics argue, `It makes people in immigrant communities feel targeted and marginalized`, Ahilan Arulanantham said, and experts warned the false rhetoric coming out of the Trump administration creates real harm.
- A recent Gallup poll found 79% of Americans view immigration positively, and support for a pathway to citizenship climbed to nearly 80%.
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Fareed Zakaria: Trump is deporting fewer people than Obama - he’s just louder and meaner
You have seen the blizzard of scary images – immigration agents taking parents away in front of their kids, masked officers raiding neighborhoods, men detained in remote centers – but here is the surprising fact behind the mayhem: Donald Trump has deported fewer people per month than Barack Obama did, and barely more than Joe Biden during a similar span last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by NBC News.
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Most detainees aren’t criminals
President Donald Trump pledged to deport “the worst of the worst.” He frequently speaks at public appearances about the countless “dangerous criminals” — among them murderers, rapists and child predators — from around the world he says entered the U.S.…
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Trump Says He Deports “the Worst in the World,” but the Data Shows that Most Have No Criminal Record
The US president again justified his immigration offensive with extreme claims, while reinforcing the raids, detention centers and charging US$1,000 to asylum seekers. It is one of the main axes of his ultra agenda: the mass expulsion of migrants. To this end, the US president, Donald Trump, keeps the National Guard and Marines deployed in Los Angeles, collaborating with migration agents (ICE, US Immigration and Customs Service) in raids in work…
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