Only 5% of immigrants arrested by ICE under Trump have been convicted of a serious crime. 73% of those detained by ICE have no criminal record at all.
The Trump Administration and the partisan hacks heading up all of its agencies (one of whom a Federal Judge found to be lying about CBP operations) have been relentless with their anti-immigration propaganda. ICE has been out in full forth conducting rather violent raids and traffic stops. There were several days where ICE teams were being spotted all over Long Island and Queens, and there was the raid on Canal Street in Manhattan earlier this year. A man died in ICE custody on Long Island under suspicious circumstances and there has been no official investigation conducted.
The message from the Administration has been consistent this entire time–DHS is arresting and deporting “the worst of the worst.” ICE Barbie, Kristi Noem, has insisted that these are “targeted operations” and “we’re arresting murderers, rapists, gang leaders, and drug kingpins.”
The data that has been made available clearly shows that what is being said is not true. The President, the Secretary of DHS, and the Director of ICE and CBP are lying to the American people. According to the data less than 5% of the people detained by ICE in these recent operations had a criminal record.
Less than 5% of the people detained by ICE in their recent targeted operations had a criminal record.
The Daily Beast has an article going over the data collected and published by the Cato Institute and exposing the truth about Trump’s deportations.
They look at the number of people actually deported from the US in November 2025 and discover that 43% had no criminal record and another 27% only had pending charges and a mere 30% had a conviction but that included minor traffic offenses and immigration offenses.
The administration and the people who support these mass deportations will claim that immigrants have caused a massive increase in crime in the US and try to blame immigrants for all the ills of the world. This is not true and it has been known for decades that immigrants actually commit crime at a significantly lower rate than US born citizens.
These raids and mass deportations were predicated on a lie and now they are lying to keep them going and to keep people on board with spending tens of billions of dollars on deportations that will cause massive harm to the economy and have no impact on the crime rates. None of the reasons for these deportations are true. People think that his will help them find a job or make their city safer but it will have the exact opposite effect and we know that from looking at the data.
The administration continues to fire Immigration Judges during this surge too but you can read that article if you want to learn about that.
